Washburn 18th May 2013 - YCC release day!
YCC in charge of the release at the mighty washburn for the day....what can possibly go wrong!
Ha, well apparently nothing, the day went off without a hitch and we had beautiful weather and everything...a rare day at the Washburn!
Jon had asked me to help him out for the day with an intro to whitewater for a couple of our newbs, beginning with a run down of the washburn and structure of whitewater ...eddies and signals etc. His great idea was to have me and JBT paddling it and doing the things that he was explaining like a live demo - I had a blast doing this actually! It was like being a performing monkey! And to add to the hilarity, JBT had an out of boat experience at the broken weir so monkey came to the rescue. Hehehe. Jon also turned to me and goes 'Rach, just err, drop into that sideways for me will you?!' ... just into the play weir but still, i was in a nomad and its a shallow ditch so i was less than keen but in the end, did it anyway, Jon did it too himself but still, the look on my face was priceless when he asked! Down the bottom we did some stuff with the newbs, they did good considering that it was too early for them really but still, we gave it a good go and rafted/guided them down a bit of the river which was ...interesting...lol!
As soon as I had got off the river with those guys, the others were getting on and I was tempted into another run, and another, and then we took Adie and G down with a bunch of us - they told us, they didnt want to do the weir from the word go...but then we missed the getout for them to portage, and so they had to run it...and they loved it :)
Then, between stuffing my face with a banana and some chocolate, back on for another run in the playboats before giving up for the day, this time I didn't mind the weir sideways because I was in a boat that I could play and then get out of it! :D Love my star, its great.
Also bumped into an old face today, Chris turned up with a bunch of folk at the river, and I was pretty much stunned into silence when I clocked who it was and didn't know what to say so we exchanged knowing nods like you do and went on our way. I had a chance to strike up conversation but didnt, just didnt know what to say. Made me sit back and realise how far ive come though, doesnt feel like ive made any progress with my boating but seeing him and thinking back to the sorts of things we used to do and what was scary then, and whats scary now...definitely got me thinking.
Ive paddled 4 days out of 7 this week, and im so much happier :) more weeks like this please!
Ha, well apparently nothing, the day went off without a hitch and we had beautiful weather and everything...a rare day at the Washburn!
Jon had asked me to help him out for the day with an intro to whitewater for a couple of our newbs, beginning with a run down of the washburn and structure of whitewater ...eddies and signals etc. His great idea was to have me and JBT paddling it and doing the things that he was explaining like a live demo - I had a blast doing this actually! It was like being a performing monkey! And to add to the hilarity, JBT had an out of boat experience at the broken weir so monkey came to the rescue. Hehehe. Jon also turned to me and goes 'Rach, just err, drop into that sideways for me will you?!' ... just into the play weir but still, i was in a nomad and its a shallow ditch so i was less than keen but in the end, did it anyway, Jon did it too himself but still, the look on my face was priceless when he asked! Down the bottom we did some stuff with the newbs, they did good considering that it was too early for them really but still, we gave it a good go and rafted/guided them down a bit of the river which was ...interesting...lol!
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| Sideways? In this?! |
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| Sun!! |
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| Lew having a blast :) I love that guy! |
As soon as I had got off the river with those guys, the others were getting on and I was tempted into another run, and another, and then we took Adie and G down with a bunch of us - they told us, they didnt want to do the weir from the word go...but then we missed the getout for them to portage, and so they had to run it...and they loved it :)
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| Adie on the weir |
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| G on the weir |
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| Me in the weir lol |
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| Adie gettin his sea legs back :) |
Then, between stuffing my face with a banana and some chocolate, back on for another run in the playboats before giving up for the day, this time I didn't mind the weir sideways because I was in a boat that I could play and then get out of it! :D Love my star, its great.
Also bumped into an old face today, Chris turned up with a bunch of folk at the river, and I was pretty much stunned into silence when I clocked who it was and didn't know what to say so we exchanged knowing nods like you do and went on our way. I had a chance to strike up conversation but didnt, just didnt know what to say. Made me sit back and realise how far ive come though, doesnt feel like ive made any progress with my boating but seeing him and thinking back to the sorts of things we used to do and what was scary then, and whats scary now...definitely got me thinking.
Ive paddled 4 days out of 7 this week, and im so much happier :) more weeks like this please!
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