JEFF’S WET WORLD OF WHITE WATER ADVENTURE

It all started off earlier in the week when my lovely wife, Erin, asked me to go to a swing dance class with her on Wednesday night.  Like a wonderful husband that I am I ageed and went.  For me this is a problem becuase I have two left feet BIG TIME. 
 

I got to the class and it turned out pretty good.  I found out that I had only 1 1/2 left feet not two.  We had a great class and I enjoyed the time with Erin also.  About half way through the class though, I told her that my pay back would be a trip down the lower Noli on Sunday afternoon and she agreed, or I took it that way.

Well Saturday came around and I was getting fired up for the run, seeing this is my first time back on the water since my last Noli incedent.  Wes called me up and told me that a couple of guys from the pool would be joining us, Matt and Josh.  Matt has had a few good runs under his belt from what I have been told.  Josh on the other hand, just learned to roll good this past Tuesday.  So this was his first run.

Matt and Josh met me at the Bradley’s house, other known as my in-laws, and we headed to Wes’s new temp. residence.  We got there and outfitted our boats and loaded up.  Now this is the line up for boats.  Of coarse Wes had his super star, Matt had the super hero, Josh had the hero, and yours truely grew a massive pair and jumped into the 4fun.  Let me tell you, what a big difference!  I felt great in that boat compared to the rocker which I was about 15 to 20 pounds to heavy for.

Well we put in at the Chestoa, I think it is called, and we were off.  I played a few minutes and went ahead and practiced a roll and a few braces along with catching a nearby eddie. Wes pumped Josh up while Matt was messing around with me.  As we headed off things were awsome.  I was in a great boat with alot of confidence, considering my last voyage that is until I happen to find the only darn rock in the river at that point and yep you guessed it. I flipped and kept picking my head up like a big dumby so I got wet. 

I put back in right there in the middle of the river and went on.  We got down to Shane’s hole and watched Wes keep it Pro for a few minutes and headed on.  We hit some flat stuff and little rock gardens here and there and yes I did find the rocks.

You know they say look where you want to go and you will end up there.  Well I am telepathic when it comes to rocks.  If there is one to find I will find it.  But I did good.  We finally got to radio wave.  All I can say is Great times!!! That was really fun.  Not hard at all but really fun, and yes I found about a million rocks on the way down, however I ran  the crap out of it like a pro! Man it was sexxy.  You just had to have been there.  We all four practiced ferrying and peeling out.  Yea, I hit a couple of combat rolls in the process so what? That’s what pro’s do. 

We finally went on to what Wes called devil’s back rock or something like that.  We all took the high road of course.  At this point Josh was keeping super pro.  Man he ran everything like he had been doin it for years.  He even ran high road with no problems.  After going throught high road we all decided to get our boof on at the little ledge at the bottom.  Wes demonstrated very well.  Josh was the boof mater of today though. He boofed the heck out of that hero.  Next of course I got up to the ledge and put my boof stroke in too early and got alittle taste of somewhat of a power flip, so it felt like.  I missed my roll becuase of my fat head and got to get alittle wet again. 

Well we all got out and ran the boof again.  This time was great I was just a hair too early on my stroke but it got me there.  That was great!!!! My first boof.  We all celebrated the great boofs and practiced our ferrying some more along with peeling.  At this point it was about time someone else got wet besides me.  Josh just happen to be the unlucky one today.  He leaned just a touch upstream and that current whooped him good.  He swam and from there we pulled out and I came on to the house to eat some roast beef.  GOOD TIMES. 

I really think I enjoy the plaining hull alot better than the other.  I feel more stable becuase I can actually feel the edge.  It makes a big difference to begginer such as myself.  Hopefully we can get another run in this week sometime.  Until then Stay Sexxy and keep it Pro.