Whitewater rafting is awesome.
We hit the Red River about 1.25 hours northwest of Montreal and it was intense. The water was high - 130 cubic metres a second passing through any given spot in the river. 4 trips down the river - only came out of the boat once .. in the dreaded Washing Machine.
This is a class 4+ rapid (the scale is out of 5) that's basically a tornado of waves after a big drop.. to give you an idea usually over half of the rafts bail on this rapid.. it's a motherfucker.. and if you don't swim to the side fast enough when you bail you hit the next rapid .. the Rock Garden. Ouch. Fortunately the time we did fly out on the Washing Machine after feeling like I nearly drowned and getting run over by a rescue raft, I never hit the Rock Garden.
By the 4 time down though we felt like pros and were pulling cute girls (and guys too) out of the rapids that had bailed. All in all - pretty awesome. I feel like hitting a different run sometime soon.
We hit the Red River about 1.25 hours northwest of Montreal and it was intense. The water was high - 130 cubic metres a second passing through any given spot in the river. 4 trips down the river - only came out of the boat once .. in the dreaded Washing Machine.
This is a class 4+ rapid (the scale is out of 5) that's basically a tornado of waves after a big drop.. to give you an idea usually over half of the rafts bail on this rapid.. it's a motherfucker.. and if you don't swim to the side fast enough when you bail you hit the next rapid .. the Rock Garden. Ouch. Fortunately the time we did fly out on the Washing Machine after feeling like I nearly drowned and getting run over by a rescue raft, I never hit the Rock Garden.
By the 4 time down though we felt like pros and were pulling cute girls (and guys too) out of the rapids that had bailed. All in all - pretty awesome. I feel like hitting a different run sometime soon.
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last time i did rapids like that, though, i was about 7 years old and couldn't swim worth a damn. that probably was not a good idea.
How have you been, by the way??? I heard you were hitting up mad amounts of concerts lately??