The past few trips I have kind of neglected to put up in a timely fashion. I'm going to try my hardest to remember all the details even though I had a few Gin n' Tonic's at Malloys with my dinner.
Thursday the 26th was a sweet day on the River. The level was under 3 feet so we had to make our own fun in places. My crew was awesome. I had Greg and Nicole (Mosca) Willbanks who were just married last night (congrats). I had some of Gregs family and also another group of 2. Gary and heather were great folks and i think they all had a really nice trip. We had a little bit of excitement in Harris Rift when Vincent (age8) fell out into a River feature dubbed Bubble Buster. He was totally sucked under for like 4 seconds and swam for a total of probably 13
-15 seconds. It was scary for me as a guide because of his size and age. we managed to rescue him from the turbulent H2o and had a nice rest of the trip. I jumped out of the raft while surfing bus stop cause i was super bored and hot. It's a deep pool but i managed to violate myself on a rock somehow.
-15 seconds. It was scary for me as a guide because of his size and age. we managed to rescue him from the turbulent H2o and had a nice rest of the trip. I jumped out of the raft while surfing bus stop cause i was super bored and hot. It's a deep pool but i managed to violate myself on a rock somehow.Sat June 29th. It was a nice hot humid morning. That all changed. By 12.30 or 1 pm it started to rain. We were just below Harris RIft when It started. I caught a metric crap load of Guide Air as we went down stream. I even saw John get some pretty good air( even though he is totally out of practice and getting stuck all of the time. ) My group was going to be an eleven load...yikes! but the gusts arrived with a girl who was too young and the gear wouldn't fit safely so Gary (my boss) couldn't let her on the trip. I had eight throughout the day and they were excellent paddlers. It was raining pretty much the hardest and longest i have ever experienced. Even older guides who have been around had something to say about yesterdays storm. Like John said every time you thought it was as bad as it gets it got more intense! I even listed in my guide log book how hard the rain fell. After the trip i had to zoom to a wedding for Greg and Nicole so it was a long day for me...but super fun.
Sunday the 30th (today). I had a group of folks from around Allentown PA. They were all from eastern Europe (i think it was Bulgaria) i cant remember. The five load in a small boat with all the rain from the day before made my day super easy. That was a good thing due to the fact I was up late with the wedding party. We couldn't for the life of us catch a surf but we had a fun time trying. The river just wouldn't accept our offer to play. It was a great trip, we were an excellent team and even though some of them were not so great at speaking English I feel like we all became friends a little bit on the river. The weather was great also!
If anyone got personal pictures...as always send em' 2 me ill post them
Thanks for Rockin the Chazblog My next post will probably be from Thailand so stay regular and check ~Chaz
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