Weekend Hash: Round 2
Soi went and trained on the river again this weekend. It was a lot better than last weekend. The guides were a lot more chill, the weather was a lot nicer, and all of us trainees were doing a lot better on the river. We got to swim our first couple of rapids and it was awesome! I about drowned on the first one because every time i took a breath of air, i got splashed in the face with water. Our trainer that day really spent a lot of time telling us about the ins and outs of the river, how to swim and not drown, and working with us to teach us how to get off the rocks if we pin our boat.
When we got off the river saturday, the guides were cooking up some tuna steaks and they let us have some, much to our suprise. We looked at them in a very confused manner the first two or three times they said to grab a plate, and then one of them said "Look man, we're going to fuck with you guys because you're trainees, but at the end of the day we'll all have something to eat and chill with you"... it was amazing! it really is like a big family up there and we are just going to be the retarded siblings for this season: we'll get made fun of a lot inside the family, but they'll still be cool with us being there and they won't let us take shit from other people outside the family. One little fun story about saturday, there were only 2 of us trainees on saturday so we had to do all of our own boat loading and everything like that. We had to help pump up and load 8 other boats as well. Now i would say im a strong guy, but those rafts are heavy on 2 people. Anywho, at the end of the day we were going to run the river one more time and so our trainer went to drop the van off at the take out. Being two very eager trainees we went ahead and moved the raft down to the put in, down this very long ramp which was about a 20 degree angle. Well, while we were down there the river turned off so we had to drag the raft back up the ramp and wait for our trainer to come back. it was rough but we got it.
We ran the river twice on Sunday we had two other trainees show up. We all got some good stick time but I was having a great day guiding cause it seemed like all the rapids were just coming easy and the boat was going exactly where i wanted it to and such. I even dodged this huge rock at the bottom of a rapid called tablesaw by about 2 feet... sweetness. Next weekend we should be swimming some of the bigger rapids at the end of the river... i can't wait.
When we got off the river saturday, the guides were cooking up some tuna steaks and they let us have some, much to our suprise. We looked at them in a very confused manner the first two or three times they said to grab a plate, and then one of them said "Look man, we're going to fuck with you guys because you're trainees, but at the end of the day we'll all have something to eat and chill with you"... it was amazing! it really is like a big family up there and we are just going to be the retarded siblings for this season: we'll get made fun of a lot inside the family, but they'll still be cool with us being there and they won't let us take shit from other people outside the family. One little fun story about saturday, there were only 2 of us trainees on saturday so we had to do all of our own boat loading and everything like that. We had to help pump up and load 8 other boats as well. Now i would say im a strong guy, but those rafts are heavy on 2 people. Anywho, at the end of the day we were going to run the river one more time and so our trainer went to drop the van off at the take out. Being two very eager trainees we went ahead and moved the raft down to the put in, down this very long ramp which was about a 20 degree angle. Well, while we were down there the river turned off so we had to drag the raft back up the ramp and wait for our trainer to come back. it was rough but we got it.
We ran the river twice on Sunday we had two other trainees show up. We all got some good stick time but I was having a great day guiding cause it seemed like all the rapids were just coming easy and the boat was going exactly where i wanted it to and such. I even dodged this huge rock at the bottom of a rapid called tablesaw by about 2 feet... sweetness. Next weekend we should be swimming some of the bigger rapids at the end of the river... i can't wait.
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