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Sunday Oct 25, 2015 #
Whitewater Kayak (Perry River) 1 [3]
Two laps on the Perry River with Pierce and Koby.
Young P(16) was the motivation and we caught his 20 year old uncle between work shifts and leaving for Ecuador for the season. Koby and I combined can take Pierce out for such outings. P's dad, a phenomenal boater, is not that in to creeking. And it is now hunting season, so he's busy with the younger brother.
So two laps of the Class IV Perry. Low but manageable. Four distinct Class IV drops requiring different skills.
The 3rd drop on the 2nd lap caused me some issues. I'm going to type it out like an incident report for my purposes, even though there isn't really a takeaway.
The drop is two 10' ledges. The first being split by a house rock at the top and the second being a bit of a narrow discharge nozzle.
On the first lap I ran far right. You could catch a shelf about 5' down the first drop and boof off back into the flow to line up the second drop. All good. K and I went this way. P went left.
On the second lap we all ran left. I should have scouted, but had seen the line and went 3rd, figuring I'd just follow the entry of the other two.
In the eddy, I noted they both bounced off some rocks as they went over the top. So, I went harder and ended up boofing off a rock 1/2 down the drop. I skipped perpendicular across the left-right flow and hit the far shelf. This spun me backwards and I went down the rest of the first drop backwards but relatively in control until I flipped at the bottom.
I made one quick roll attempt (should have waited 0.5s) but failed as I was fighting some opposing currents. As I was preparing to roll again I went off the next shelf backwards and upside down. I could feel this, but didn't have a great idea of what was going on.
My next two attempts were failures as I was caught in a tight eddy against the cliff wall and being fed into the pourover at the bottom. I pulled and did one underwater circ back into the pourover. I had some presence to be like "oh this is where I'm at. This is going to be a fight". As I went for a second recirculation I caught some air but unfortunately inhaled some water. My 3rd recirculation involved a decision between swimming (somewhere?) and tucking into a ball and hopefully going deep. As I was short on air and not quite sure which way to head, I tucked in a ball and luckily went deep and popped up into a calm eddy on river left.
P. had his boat right there for me. There was a bit of confusion as I wanted out now! He thought I needed time to get air. But from my water intake, I was having a hard time getting breaths in. I did get to shore quickly, climbed where I could stand while tearing off my helmet, and barfed about 6 times.
No injuries (I thought) and I was feeling mentally ok. Seriously, this is a mental game so I was good. Knowing full well I was going to portage the next drop just because.
But somewhere in there I also hurt my left knee. Probably exiting out of the boat. It tore away from me and possibly hyper-extended me knee? I'm just guessing by how it hurts to lift. This didn't show up until driving the shuttle for the guys.
So, K and P and now Iman went and did the box canyon of the Illy while I was shuttle monkey and got myself some coffee.
edit: I forgot I have pics of P running this drop the first time. I'll post them shortly.
edit: So this is Pierce showing the correct way to run the left line on the Perry River (3rd drop).
https://goo.gl/photos/9RzJRCw126TCRs1r8
edit: And apparently that drop is called Firework (all Katy Perry songs I think). Roar is the first drop.
Young P(16) was the motivation and we caught his 20 year old uncle between work shifts and leaving for Ecuador for the season. Koby and I combined can take Pierce out for such outings. P's dad, a phenomenal boater, is not that in to creeking. And it is now hunting season, so he's busy with the younger brother.
So two laps of the Class IV Perry. Low but manageable. Four distinct Class IV drops requiring different skills.
The 3rd drop on the 2nd lap caused me some issues. I'm going to type it out like an incident report for my purposes, even though there isn't really a takeaway.
The drop is two 10' ledges. The first being split by a house rock at the top and the second being a bit of a narrow discharge nozzle.
On the first lap I ran far right. You could catch a shelf about 5' down the first drop and boof off back into the flow to line up the second drop. All good. K and I went this way. P went left.
On the second lap we all ran left. I should have scouted, but had seen the line and went 3rd, figuring I'd just follow the entry of the other two.
In the eddy, I noted they both bounced off some rocks as they went over the top. So, I went harder and ended up boofing off a rock 1/2 down the drop. I skipped perpendicular across the left-right flow and hit the far shelf. This spun me backwards and I went down the rest of the first drop backwards but relatively in control until I flipped at the bottom.
I made one quick roll attempt (should have waited 0.5s) but failed as I was fighting some opposing currents. As I was preparing to roll again I went off the next shelf backwards and upside down. I could feel this, but didn't have a great idea of what was going on.
My next two attempts were failures as I was caught in a tight eddy against the cliff wall and being fed into the pourover at the bottom. I pulled and did one underwater circ back into the pourover. I had some presence to be like "oh this is where I'm at. This is going to be a fight". As I went for a second recirculation I caught some air but unfortunately inhaled some water. My 3rd recirculation involved a decision between swimming (somewhere?) and tucking into a ball and hopefully going deep. As I was short on air and not quite sure which way to head, I tucked in a ball and luckily went deep and popped up into a calm eddy on river left.
P. had his boat right there for me. There was a bit of confusion as I wanted out now! He thought I needed time to get air. But from my water intake, I was having a hard time getting breaths in. I did get to shore quickly, climbed where I could stand while tearing off my helmet, and barfed about 6 times.
No injuries (I thought) and I was feeling mentally ok. Seriously, this is a mental game so I was good. Knowing full well I was going to portage the next drop just because.
But somewhere in there I also hurt my left knee. Probably exiting out of the boat. It tore away from me and possibly hyper-extended me knee? I'm just guessing by how it hurts to lift. This didn't show up until driving the shuttle for the guys.
So, K and P and now Iman went and did the box canyon of the Illy while I was shuttle monkey and got myself some coffee.
edit: I forgot I have pics of P running this drop the first time. I'll post them shortly.
edit: So this is Pierce showing the correct way to run the left line on the Perry River (3rd drop).
https://goo.gl/photos/9RzJRCw126TCRs1r8
edit: And apparently that drop is called Firework (all Katy Perry songs I think). Roar is the first drop.
Saturday Oct 24, 2015 #
Hiking (SAR Training) 7:30:00 [1]
Compass and GPS day.
Course was set by a local orienteering friend and we wandered around on an air photo map. One course for GPS and one for compass.
We won! Well not really, but we were done quick enough that we waited for a long time before the group was all back.
Didn't learn much, except for how frustrating GPS menus can be.
Course was set by a local orienteering friend and we wandered around on an air photo map. One course for GPS and one for compass.
We won! Well not really, but we were done quick enough that we waited for a long time before the group was all back.
Didn't learn much, except for how frustrating GPS menus can be.