Been ww kayaking since late 80s... class 2+ and some occasional 3s, in pool drop stuff is enough for me. Amazing how some boaters can continue to ascend to new levels. And like rock climbing, managing the risk is part of the game.
I can not believe how much Boulder Drop has changed since I last ran it back around 1990. Even the upper part of the river is full of rock now. Looks like Airplane Turn is long gone in Bolder Drop and the river has eaten out the south side of the river more at Flynn Rock. How come you didn't take out at the RR bridge???? That river can have some huge floods when it does. I can remember seeing a deer carouse in a tree 20 feet + above the river below the highway bridge below the index turn off.
Sweet video, keep the hits coming, love to meet up with you guys and hit a river, ohh damn that boat got busted, crazy never thought to do on river surgery
Dont yet have the skillz to run this over 2000cfs, thanks for the upload, i know this river so well at lower water, crazy how it changes with 1000+ cfs
I loved it! Thank you. Beautiful. I'm not sure what would be the best flow for that. You were definitely scraping a lot, but much higher water starts to make the fallen wood a problem.
Had a friend who was a class 4+ kayaker and got out at the bottom of "starts with a bang" and never kayaked again,. He was with my other friend Rick Williams that day. Rick loved that river and the Carbon too. When you going to do the North Fork of the Snowqualime?
My buddy Rick Williams was one of the first one's to scout and run that river back in the day. It was a very limited club to have done the Carbon. I never did. I was CHICKEN.
If you think you might have wanted to kayak when you were younger, you can still do it now, just maybe not on something of this difficulty. Rivers come in all types from smooth to waterfalls. I'm 70 and stick to Class III.
