Plan for the day: meet at 10:30am, check river levels (since its rained a TON in the past couple days) to see what fun creeks are running, pick one, and GO.
Actual events of the day: I slept through three alarms and six missed calls, having been up late working on a paper, and finally opened my eyes circa 11am. John's 9am meeting didn't finish until 11:30. Multiple logistical snafus later, and after about 45 minutes of debating which river to run (Hardware is above some people's heads, Balcony is too far away, Tye dropped too low just too early, Conway is a little too far away and not enough is known about it, Bullpasture is too high and too far, etc), we decide on the Moorman's River, just west of Charlottesville. The crew assembled plans to meet Dave at the put-in, but then snafu number 30 of the day occurs, and directions get mixed up. We finally put on the river at 3:10pm.
And we had a FANTASTIC run. Beautiful day, great group of people, really fun little river to explore. (personal first D also...and it felt great to get on something new after running the LJ and Balcony about a hundred times this year).
Actual events of the day: I slept through three alarms and six missed calls, having been up late working on a paper, and finally opened my eyes circa 11am. John's 9am meeting didn't finish until 11:30. Multiple logistical snafus later, and after about 45 minutes of debating which river to run (Hardware is above some people's heads, Balcony is too far away, Tye dropped too low just too early, Conway is a little too far away and not enough is known about it, Bullpasture is too high and too far, etc), we decide on the Moorman's River, just west of Charlottesville. The crew assembled plans to meet Dave at the put-in, but then snafu number 30 of the day occurs, and directions get mixed up. We finally put on the river at 3:10pm.
And we had a FANTASTIC run. Beautiful day, great group of people, really fun little river to explore. (personal first D also...and it felt great to get on something new after running the LJ and Balcony about a hundred times this year).
Here are a couple pictures to evidence the fun of the day:
Group shot from behind
Dave surfing a fun little wave
Davis on the same wave
John surfing
Me seal launching off a cool rock
and landing waaaay too flat.
Attempt number two didn't hurt quite so much.
John preparing to launch
launching!This day was the best day I could have asked for to have as my last day on the water in Virginia until the fall. I couldn't be happier. :-)
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