As I said a while back, I dont want to live a G-rated life in black and white. Instead I want to feel alive with everything that comoes with it. Today I get to check something off from my bucket list... 'whitewater rafting'.
I came to visit Sasquash for the weekend in upstate NY and we took a day trip out to Black River for our first Whitewater rafting trip ever! It was amazing :o) We rafted 8 miles and it took just a couple of hours - not that we were going that slow, its just that we took breaks in between. Everything went well, noone from our raft fell out or got hurt, the sun was shining beautifully all day (not one cloud int he sky!), and to make things even better... although the river is only a level III in the summer, its been raining a lot and parts of it were a IV and IV+ !!! It was all graet - though Im sure my arms will be nothing by sore tomorrow. There was one time that I defitinely freaked out and was sure I was going to end up in a hospital... see, our guide was great and for the most part had us all feeling really confident except for this one section where before we went into the rapid, we eddied out and she had me and Sasquash (who were sitting in the front of the raft) move up near her... she told us to look into her eyes as she gave us instructions and prepped us for the rapid/drop. She told us what to do, what we were trying to avoid and what would happen if we fell into the water. She looked TOTALLY freaked out, and so I got freaked out too... and then to make matters worse, she put on her MOUTHGUARD! At which point I wondered... "shit, where is my mouthguard?" But we headed on... I nearly went flying out of our raft, time slowed down somehw and all I could do was paddle like she told us to and looked into the water that kept of smacking against us... but we all made it okay. Here is a picture of the raft getting ready to go into that rapid (UPDATED WITH MY NEW PICTURE - IM THE ONE ON FRONT RIGHT)
I came to visit Sasquash for the weekend in upstate NY and we took a day trip out to Black River for our first Whitewater rafting trip ever! It was amazing :o) We rafted 8 miles and it took just a couple of hours - not that we were going that slow, its just that we took breaks in between. Everything went well, noone from our raft fell out or got hurt, the sun was shining beautifully all day (not one cloud int he sky!), and to make things even better... although the river is only a level III in the summer, its been raining a lot and parts of it were a IV and IV+ !!! It was all graet - though Im sure my arms will be nothing by sore tomorrow. There was one time that I defitinely freaked out and was sure I was going to end up in a hospital... see, our guide was great and for the most part had us all feeling really confident except for this one section where before we went into the rapid, we eddied out and she had me and Sasquash (who were sitting in the front of the raft) move up near her... she told us to look into her eyes as she gave us instructions and prepped us for the rapid/drop. She told us what to do, what we were trying to avoid and what would happen if we fell into the water. She looked TOTALLY freaked out, and so I got freaked out too... and then to make matters worse, she put on her MOUTHGUARD! At which point I wondered... "shit, where is my mouthguard?" But we headed on... I nearly went flying out of our raft, time slowed down somehw and all I could do was paddle like she told us to and looked into the water that kept of smacking against us... but we all made it okay. Here is a picture of the raft getting ready to go into that rapid (UPDATED WITH MY NEW PICTURE - IM THE ONE ON FRONT RIGHT)
anyways... after all it was an amazing experience and I would do it again in a heartbeat! But for now, Im passing out...
pree
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