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How I broke my Paddle
At Rivers End rapid, we tried to run the line all the way right on river left (through that little slot) and when I braced at the rock a few feet before the drop, my paddle got stuck sticking straight out of the water. I was holding on to my paddle with one hand and the rock with the other, boat sideways and water pushing on it hard, for about ( Read more... ) -
Cy's first time at O-Deck
Awesome time on the water last night with Cyrus, Chuck, Cathy, Yael, Dana, and others. Cy and I were on the water for five hours. He surfed his dagger at MD Chutes and didn't do too darned shabby for his second day surfing and in a new boat. Then we went up to O-Deck. This involved a fairly long carry for someone who has never really carried before ( Read more... ) -
Cy's First Chute Surfing!
Cut and paste from an email, since I am efficient and see no reason to rewrite things ( Read more... ) -
Back on the water finally, longest working yet
Man, I had a great time on the water last night. Did some of my best surfing ever. I seemed to be able to pick right up where I left off after about a month break. With a little advice from some guy named Jewls, was able to spin halfway fairly easily. The trick was to use those edges to spin, vice paddle.
I also had a very eventful working at wet ( Read more... ) -
Ra Puts Kayaking Down, Cy and Voron 102 Class
This is an email I wrote to Chuck. I figure it is pretty much a journal post, so why rewrite it?
I went to the 102 with Cy and Voron. Cy is progressing at an amazing rate. He is now paddling the Jackson because Ra decided that she doesn't want to kayak. I got a bit pist at her because she kept complaining before the practice and then after I ( Read more... ) -
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Big day today. We have some people working on the bedroom floors, ripping out our closet, painting, and doing the hardwood floors and more and that whole room is going to be in a state that will make it easy to create our walk in closet and make our own little paradise. I also had a great day on the water with Cy, Rich, Voron, Chuck & clan, Cathy ( Read more... ) -
Rich, Voron, Cy's first run
Today was a great day on the water. We took Cy, Voron, Rich, and Erin down their first moving water run, doing Angler's to lock 10 at 3.4. We first hit Offut at which everyone did great. We skipped the long ferry to Tea Cups and opted to drift down to Yellow Falls. Again, everyone ran the rapid like champs. We then had some people swim the rapid ( Read more... ) -
My first spins in a playboat!
MD Chute was perfect at 3.7 today, and luckily I had decided to stay home today so I could hang out late with Crystal last night. I got there around 1230 and a couple paddlers were just leaving. There was NO ONE up there at first, and my confidence drained due to being alone and not really knowing how to enter the feature. It looked kind of ( Read more... ) -
Playboat workout, playing with Ra, good times with Crystal
Yesterday was a pretty good day. While Crystal didn't get up until later, we did hang out in the evening. I managed to work on my boat outfitting and get a few things done. When C finally did get up, instead of getting annoyed about the day being wasted, I just sucked it up and we hung out in the pool. C floated around while I did a playboat ( Read more... ) -
Great Mem Day
I had a pretty damned good day. C slept for most of the day, but I let that go and we hung out around the pool when she finally did awaken. I worked on some kayaking drills and played with Ra while C got some sun and a bit of swimming in. Cy was working on prepping for tryouts for the top orchestra group in school (he got it his freshman year, so ( Read more... )