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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Eagle Creek-Columbia Gorge-(Swimming)
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Rock Creek (swimming)
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Naked falls
When we were gearing down to leave some idiot started talking big about drifting the gravel road. Alex didn't want his car anywhere near that guy so drove it away before the guy could pull his stunt. It was a good call, the dude crashed his car exactly where Alex's vehicle had been parked about 1.5 minutes before.
-Jacob
Lower Wind
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Green Truss
Myself in meatballWe all portaged Big Brother and all cleaned Little Brother.
Jordan drops Little BrotherThe paddle held until we got to double-drop, where in the rapid above it broke again. Nick borrowed a paddle to run Double-Drop from Jordan who decided to portage, and had his only swim of the day in the bottom ledge. My dad and I both did great in this drop. Below here my dad set to work loading up the paddle with sticks and duct tape until it was on just enough to make it the rest of the way if Nick took it easy on his paddle.
Rob Cruser (my dad) fires up Double-Drop
Myself dropping into Wicked Hole
Below here we made descent time to Zig-Zag canyon, with no flips occuring. Cheesegrater and Unavoidable were fun as usual and we got pictures and video for both of them.
The Author in the top drop of Cheesegrater
Rob Cruser in the bottom drop of Cheesegrater
We were all excited about Upper Zig-Zag for many reasons. My dad hadn't kayaked this drop in a long time, and had swam it the last time. Nick had swam it the last time. I had barely kept myself from flipping last time and wanted a clean run this time. Jordan hadn't ever run it and was pretty nervous/excited about it. I wasn't feeling too bad about it so I went first and never had to brace with a solid boof through the right slot at the first ledge. Then I videod Jordan having a perfect line and heard him give his first ever whoop below a rapid that I had heard. My dad followed next and I didn't get the Q from Nick so I missed his exciting line. He got pushed left in the entrance and almost flipped, but pulled it off, then he got pushed sideways into the wall at the first ledge, he flipped here and kicked hard to get away from the sieve. Nick decided that he couldn't run the rapid with his duct-taped paddle so portaged along the right wall. The portage took about 25 min. but could be done in about 10. I had read that the portage was brutal, but it really didn't seem that bad, and really might have been easier than the lower Zig-zag portage. We all portaged Lower Zig-zag even though it is starting to get run, and if you stayed up-right it would be easier than some of the other rapids on the run, but if you flipped you would get your head ripped off by the submerged log. Below here is the Orletta, which we attempted to get down quickly, but IK's don't really move very quickly, so we took out about 8 O'clock. The Orletta was fun as usual and went well, except that my dad hit his elbow pretty hard on a wall. We all cleaned the rest of the drops and arrived at the take-out after a good day.
Myself on Triple drop
Here is the video of our second trip down. Nick with his duct-taped paddle
Here is the video.