Suiseki Rock Hunting on the North Fork

For the second year in a row, we have helped our friends Michael and Sean, from the East Coast, with their passion of Suiseki.  Suiseki is black rock formations found only in certain parts of the world.  It happens that they can be found on the North Fork of the American river, right in our own backyard!!  Michael and Sean borrow some of our Whitewater Excitement inflatable kayaks and ventured down the North Fork with flows of about 120 cfs( the lowest we raft is about 900 - 1000 cfs ) and the lower Middle Fork of the American at about 200 cfs (again the lowest we raft the Middle Fork is 900 cfs).  They bumped and grinded down the river and searched high and low for these stones. 

About 3 years ago, Michael called my out of the blue in the spring and wanted us to take them down the North Fork in November.  I told them that there would not be any water in the river in November and that they were a little crazy.  We told them that we could not take them down on a commerical WWE trip but they could use some of our IKs and we would help shuttle them if they were set on coming all the way out to California to hunt for rocks???

Well 3 years later, we have become friends of sort and come November, they will travel out here again looking for the perfect black stone for their art.  You can see Sean's work at http://bonsai-suiseki.com/Suiseki.html.

 Watch Video of the HUNT!!