We post videos of anything whitewater related, from kayaking to rafting to stand up paddle boarding, and anything else that goes with it. Mostly, though, we post whitewater rafting flips and carnage and continue to set the standard for shredding gnar in the Southeast. We are based on the Ocoee River in Tennessee, but raft and kayak all along the East Coast, including the Chattooga, Tellico, Chattahoochee, Tallulah, Gauley, New, Cheat, and Youghiogheny. If you like our videos, please feel free to share them, subscribe to our channel, and let us know what you think in the comment section.
Yo at 5:27 is my home river right now. !! The cache la poudre in northern Colorado. Wanderlust rafting is our company’s competition. Hell yeah!! Go wanderlust!
That looks like fun. There is a roofing company in Columbus GA called Gary Kent Associates. They do great work, but rarely get a chance to go rafting. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1WwVOWDM0GS6XxFC0ETMEIqaERz9ZCdA&ll=32.575284742759294%2C-83.18&z=6
Awesome video. I've been watching on loop, in preparation for my 1st Gauley season, this Sept. This is hands down, the best video I've seen on Gauley season.
3:41 thru 3:43 Me getting donked by mother nature. 😂 I LOVE THIS VIDEO! Will is the best! I hope he's doing well. I don't know how I found myself here in this clip! I'm actually wearing the black longsleeve underarmor right now from that trip as I'm typing this. It was my first time going ever, and I'm still wanting to go again one day! I think when I had went, it was the first week of July 2015. Our group was paired up with Will and my ex's entire family was on the boat too. We were crossing over Double Suck, and I'm positioned center and left, and you can see my hand sticking up out of the water on the left side of the raft! I was actually pinned under that raft at Double Suck. Somehow I was able to remain calm and hold my breath as I felt my way from under, and I was very relieved once I felt I was getting unwedged. Once I was free, I crossed my arms and legs, and it felt like an eternity to surface. I was thinking, "how long will it take me to float up with this life vest?" I thought of my family and my dog, Zelda, and I saw some purple streaks of light--when suddenly my face felt air, my face broke the surface and I took a huge big breath in. I was still in that arms crossed position, and I'm calmly floating until I hear "GRAB THE ROPE!!!!!" a few times. I realize i can stand in the still part, and there must have been 20 ropes aimed at me. Before and after this trip, I've been lifeguarding on post when the special forces combat divers would train on my shift. I think it was no accident I was able to observe their amazing calmness and long breath holds. I had been practicing their technique while I would watch them, and I believe that had ultimately saved my life. Stay safe always, my river friend ✨️🙏🪶 Erica
3:41 thru 3:43 Me getting donked by mother nature. 😂 I LOVE THIS VIDEO! Will is the best! I hope he's doing well. I don't know how I found myself here in this clip! I'm actually wearing the black longsleeve underarmor right now from that trip as I'm typing this. It was my first time going ever, and I'm still wanting to go again one day! I think when I had went, it was the first week of July 2015. Our group was paired up with Will and my ex's entire family was on the boat too. We were crossing over Double Suck, and I'm positioned center and left, and you can see my hand sticking up out of the water on the left side of the raft! I was actually pinned under that raft at Double Suck. Somehow I was able to remain calm and hold my breath as I felt my way from under, and I was very relieved once I felt I was getting unwedged. Once I was free, I crossed my arms and legs, and it felt like an eternity to surface. I was thinking, "how long will it take me to float up with this life vest?" I thought of my family and my dog, Zelda, and I saw some purple streaks of light--when suddenly my face felt air, my face broke the surface and I took a huge big breath in. I was still in that arms crossed position, and I'm calmly floating until I hear "GRAB THE ROPE!!!!!" a few times. I realize i can stand in the still part, and there must have been 20 ropes aimed at me. Before and after this trip, I've been lifeguarding on post when the special forces combat divers would train on my shift. I think it was no accident I was able to observe their amazing calmness and long breath holds. I had been practicing their technique while I would watch them, and I believe that had ultimately saved my life. Stay safe always, my river friend ✨️🙏🪶 Erica
BY JORDAN WEISSMANN Back in September 2014, a number of reputable news outlets reported that a group of investors fronted by a Russian beer and soft drinks company, Oasis Beverages, was buying Pabst Blue Ribbon. This led to lots of joking from bloggers-me included-about how a brand that once traded on its blue-collar, all-American image to entice scenesters in Brooklyn, Portland, and beyond before becoming a bit passé was now officially owned by our geopolitical archrivals. But perhaps it was all just a great misunderstanding? Bloomberg and the New York Times report that Oasis Beverages was not, in fact, involved in the deal. Rather, Oasis chairman Eugene Kashper, an American citizen, and the San Francisco-based private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, formed a new company called Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings to purchase the brewer. Meanwhile, Kashper resigned from Oasis in November to take the helm at Pabst, according to Bloomberg. This is all a bit strange. The initial press release announcing the deal very clearly stated that “Oasis Beverages has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pabst Brewing Company.” I, for one, have never heard of a press release for an M&A deal that announced the wrong buyer, and so far, nobody has explained what went wrong. The Times tries to fill in where some of the confusion might have come from: Mr. Kashper was discussing a distribution agreement with Oasis that would introduce Pabst to the Russian and Eastern European markets. There were also discussions about selling Oasis a minority nonvoting stake in Pabst. Those talks broke down because of market conditions-namely the fact that Western nations are imposing sanctions on Russia in response to its aggression in Ukraine, making this an inopportune time to introduce a distinctly American beer. And Oasis was never in talks to acquire Pabst outright. In the end, this might all be something of a distinction without much of a difference. As the New York Post wrote in its own September story about how Pabst wasn’t really falling into Russian hands, Kashper was brought to the United States at age 6 when his Jewish parents fled the Soviet Union. He founded Oasis, which lists its address in Cyprus (a favorite tax haven for Russian oligarchs) in 2008, and the company does business in Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. But he says he has lived in New York City for the past dozen years. So Pabst is now run and partly owned by a Russian-American businessman who presumably made a lot of money brewing and distributing beer in a very corrupt part of the world. Also, it doesn’t really matter. Pabst is still barely acceptable beer that most of us will continue to drink if it happens to be that absolute cheapest swill available at the bar.
I rafted the upper and middle Gauley 5 times in the early 2000's with my team as a team building experience. The stories, memories and experiences are PRICELESS! We still talk about them today. Our guide intentionally ran us into "Postage due" right after we came over "Sweets Falls" and 3 of us that were in the back of the raft were dragged left into "Box Canyon". It was scary but knowing that none of the HUGE rocks in "Box Canyon" are undercut obviously helped us panic a little less, but it was still a HUGE adrenaline rush. The entire experience of running the Upper and Middle Gauley is a rush. 5 separate rapids rated at class 5 or 5+... AMAZING!!
Been watching loads of rafting and kayak runs on all sorts of crazy water since enjoying our rafting experience down the Chattoga River with NOC a few weekends ago. We were ready after that beginner run, plus another beginner run trip at another location years ago to start thinking about taking it up a notch. Our NOC guide actually does the Tallulah Gorge Event and is a good friend of mine JJ, and why your awesome video caught my attention.. After watching your video with these crazy turnovers and a few that didn't end well in another video, I am really second guessing taking it up a notch. LoL
