Sat on the hudson, Sun on the black

So this weekend was super rad! Well, today was rad any way, yesterday was kinda beat. On the River yesterday I took the boy scouts raftin' on the Hudson River. It was alright. We need a lot of rain to bring that River back up to adventure class levels again. We did have a lot of fun though, we hit all of the best parts of the River. I did see one of the best f--- ups by another guide that I have seen in some time though. A guide from wild waters wrapped their boat around a rock in Harris Rift (the steepest and most technical Rapids on the hudson). This chick was stuck in a really bad way. At any rate, her crew was falling out left and right taking nasty swims. I was able to play hero for a second and pull one of them into my raft. I told the fellow to pay me 20 bucks after the trip (he never did...jerk!). so that was all the rage...not really, but fun none the less

From the hudson John E and I drove across the Adirondacks to the Black River. We rolled into H20 town hot and ready to party! We got down pretty good then crashed in the boat room on an overturned raft (its pretty much the best air mattress). After waking up bright eyed and excited we got a serious breakfast at Mo's in H20 town. We prepared for our trip on the black with a metric crapload of coffee and some fine tobacco products. Our plan was to R2 (two men to a boat) a 14 foot boat and do all the rad S@#$. We left the put-in eddy before the customer trip and scampered to Hole Brothers. We surfed their for like 30-45 mins. Shortly after surfin' we had a clean line through Knifes Edge (class IV) via the true path (the most rad line in the rapids) to warm up for the Glen Park Falls. Glen Park Falls is a class VI (6...the highest in the scale of 1-6) is a series of 3 drops. First is a 4 foot drop, we ran in the center so we could drive left to the second drop which is like 8-9 feet. We got through that drop and set up for the third drop. We hit that mofo with alot of power and leaned back to bouf off of the crest of the drop. The whole thing was over pretty quickly. Needless to say we rocked that crap and cheered to 'tittie fu$*in' as loud as we could! We ran the Black River canyon and hit the Cruncher (Class III) sideways. We surfed pretty hard. I'm going to put the video on the blog soon. After that we ran the Poop Chute...a class V+ rapids. I was really nervous but John talked me into it. We nailed that then finished up the river with no trouble! We got a couple beers from the tow boat and shotgunned them for some added fun. It was basically the most exciting trip I've ever had down a River and I have had many River trips. I want to thank Tosha who got some rad pics and video of the trip and as always ARO for letting me borrow the boat.