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Nice Kayaking Boof Instructional Video

Irene — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:53:57 +0000

I did a really fun trip on the Upper Green Gorge last Saturday, my first time down (thank you Claire Hews, for leading the way and showing me a clean line through Mercury!) Afterwards Claire pointed me towards this nice instructional video from the Nantahala Outdoor Center on how to execute a good water boof, it’s a good article and the video has explanations that pop up as people boof in slow motion, so it’s really easy to see the different steps.

Here’s the link to the Nantahala water boof blog post and video.

Update: After I posted this Claire told me that not only is this the video that taught her the boof, but when she does this boof now the song from the video actually plays in her head. Too funny.

Greg Kayaking Railroad Drop (Right Side Up)

Greg — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:39:13 +0000

By Greg Nicoll:

Here’s what Railroad Drop looks like…right side up….tee hee hee.

Kayaking the Green River Headworks – April 25 2009

Irene — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:44:36 +0000

Greg Nicoll and Jeromy Adams led a kayaking trip on the Headworks section of the Green River on April 25 2009 and a great time was had by all. (Let me just say that Greg nailed the trip leader requirements before we even started by bringing doughnuts to the put-in.)

Here are some photos taken by Chris Peele and some video of a bunch of people surfing, plus me flipping on Railroad Drop.

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Here’s the video I took going over Railroad Drop. I was demo-ing the Jackson 2Fun and was bummed that I flipped, but what the heck - all good experience in the long run.

There were a couple of nice surf waves along the way, I caught the first one a few times and was again amazed at how great the Jackson 2Fun was. Mike VanOrden graciously offered to take video at the next one we hung out at for a while – here’s the video, with the people who missed the wave edited out. That would be, um, ME. (Although I did catch it once earlier.)

Here’s Greg Nicoll, Fearless Trip Leader, his very cute dog, and, well, he and I have already discussed the shoes.

And here are Mike, Chris and Jeromy trying to look like people who would never, ever partake of a post-paddle beverage in the parking lot.