Inbetween kayaking all the creeks it was nice to get on the kern witch was going off huge flows!! got a nice play wave witch is called our wave! starts coming in around 6000.. Not much to say on the wave other than no eddy but a nice big pool after to get out at and a nice trail to walk back up on!
Just some surfin and a decent round house good time out on the river
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Upper Tule!
30 footer |
30 footer |
Such an amazing place to be i cant wait to explore more sections of the tule river.. after many more fun slides and an awesome 12 footer we were at the take out.
All of us were sad to be off of the run.. its an amazing place with very few portages!
Horseshoe Days!!!!!!!!!!
This was an amazing day.. the main thing you should know about this event is that everyone gets worked! its a great time. i thought the best way to take this beating was with a friend.. so me and my good friend andrew mathews took the DD into this beast.. i thought it would be good to loop in so i went for it but andrew didnt thinks so so he pulled out and we window shaded hard got face surfed in the hole got spit out and both tried to roll on opposite sides causing us to do absolutely nothing other than sit upside down. After a good day of beat downs and friends we all met up at pizza barn and got awords.. best roll in the hole for the DD
Forks of the Kern!
The beautiful hike in clouded by smoke,The Crew Spencer, me, Evan |
The next day we awoke and hung around camp for a while.. after a nice relaxing morning we set back out on the river.. the first major rapid we came to is a mile long class 5 called west wall. I decided it was best to scout the biggest part witch was about half way through the rapid.. while we were standing on the rock spencer noticed a boat floating down the rapid. when we relized it was my boat we ran down to the bottom of the rapid and swam acoss luckly catching my boat.. with full intent of loosing my paddle i sat on the shore and looked back across for where i jumped in at and evan leaned down to grab something when he put it his arm in the air i saw my paddle! after these events we got ourselves collected and got back to the run. we found ourselves at carson falls before we knew it.. after a short scout we decided to run the sneek that kept us away form running the 5 foot drop that led into a nasty body surf hole called the "thing" carson was the last big rapid on the run when we made it to the bridge that maked the take out we were all smiles and laughs about the amazing place we had just passed through. the forks is one of the most amzing places i have ever been!!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Upper South Fork of the Kaweah.
Daniele R.I.P |
The crew Taken by, Spencer Josif |
Part of awesome slides |
A few weeks after the south fork of the Kaweah we made it back up to the kaweah to run one of the more exciting runs the kaweah has to offer. We made the journey up therw with me, evan, spencer, eric, and austin. We stopped at a bakery and met up with some italians, Daniele, Gigi, and Giorgio. Arrived at the put in to the run and after a short hike down a steep hill we made it to the creek. Right off the back there was a class 5 stout. A 10 foot ramp into a pillowing meaty hole! No beat down on this but got the nervs going. The second rapied consisted of a good 10 foot boof. After 1 mile of stressful mank we came to a drop that had a pretty crazy entrance with a nasty pot hole on the left taking must of the river up.. and about a 4 foot spot that led into a sick 15 foot slide than a 20 foot slide. after a sick 9 footer austin was bombin down the next part git a boof went over vert and got stuck in a big ledge hole.. after about 100 yards of walking he found his boat and was able to return to the run. After a few more miles of mank a sweet slide section came to be!! Three other slides make this section up.. The big finaly of the run was a super stout 20 footer! the entrance started with a 3 to a 4 to a 5 foot drops into a 7 foot slide and around a courner off the 20! Not to much carnige off of the drop. When we made it to the take out it was all laughs and booty beers for some! good times friends on the river are friends for life
Johnny, Evan, Spencer, Giorgio Bottom of 20 |
Summer!!
Top of cherry falls (Johnny Chase) taken by, Austin Nickell |
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