Technically, the first run of 'Man Week 09'. Good low flow creeking. Perhaps a bit manky, but fun none the less. It was running about 250cfs, a good 50cfs higher than our last adventure. The first drop comes just below button rock parking lot and is a sieved out gnarly beast. The guide book says it is class V+ if the sneak on the right wasn't there. I wouldn't call it a good sneak line. You drop over a lip bump a tree, then a rock, then over another lip into another rock, around a blind chute-like corner into the safety of a boulder strewn pool and hump some more rocks into back into the main flow.
The next drop is quality. Good boof.
We scouted the next drop and Mike and I didn't notice the easy line of the next drop, Tanner saw it and styled the entrance, but lost his line mid-way. While trying to get back on line, he hit a rock, got turned around backwards and continued down the wrong line facing Mike and I. We were laughing our asses off. Tanner was fine through the whole thing, but it really was the funniest thing I have seen in a while. He made it to the last hole and I remember him, facing the sky, going into the burly bottom hole backwards. He flipped and got all stuck against the bank and swam out. That really is the namesake of blog. Upright and Backwards.
High spirited, we pumped some fist in the air and Mike and I followed on down.
3 comments:
let's get physical physical
Hey Rob, would you mind posting some sort of glossary with your blog... I mean, it all seems so interesting, and the pics are cool, but you seem to be swaddled in a blanket of impenetrable jargon, and I'm feeling left out. PLEASE HELP!!!
Your cousin Allyn
I posted a link to some jargon on the left frame. Chute is a constriction, a boof is a technique for landing a free falling kayak ( you want to land flat not nose down), a hole or hydraulic is where water pours over a rock formation causing a suction effect. Holes can be bad, they can kill you. Glad to see you read this, didn't know it would make it out to the whole family, but that is great.
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