I'm Back

Well I’m back from a long family vacation. Have you ever looked at your family members and wonder how could they be related to you? Anyway enough of that, when I got home I called up my paddling buds to see what was going on. The Nantahala and the Ocoee that’s what.
Saturday’s run on the Nantahala very enchanting, it will be one that I will reminisce on for a long time. The group had six members, Chuck, Charlie, Barbara Debbie, Darcy and of course me. We put in at the top. Patton’s run I was able to catch the eddy at the top. Maybe next I’ll get more eddies. It seemed like we spent hours at the spin wave, I was able to spin maybe once or twice and I was able to surf a little at surfers. During the run I started talking about how I would like to run the falls differently and with a grin on his face Chuck said we can run the creek’n line. Yikes, someone called me out. I told him OK I’ll think about it. So the time came and with anxiety I stepped up to the plate and said lets go for it. Next thing I know I was way on the right side bearing down at the falls. I had to peel out to get to the little tongue far right, but if I peeled out to far I was going to run the racers line and I didn’t want to do that. I started out a little wobbly but the run turn out perfect, thanks Chuck.

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Sunday’s Ocoee run problematic. The Ocoee is still very challenging to me and it makes me feel very awkward. This time around the rocks seem a little closer making to harder to run the rapids. It just seem like I was hitting all the rock. I had a very scintillating conversation with Slice ‘n’ Dice. I’m not sure if I hit the main hole or the smaller one, but I’m sure glad the water was warm. All in all it was one amazing day paddling with buds and Mother Nature.

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