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Sitting and Day Dreaming => Mud Puddle => Topic started by: Brad Young on August 14, 2009, 07:03:09 PM
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Quick post to keep you people amused. We had a great vacation, a week at a dude ranch and then two county highpoints on the way to two days of rafting on the Trinity river. While I admit that I was at the ranch and that I did ride four different rides (about 8 hours of riding and one very sore bottom), somehow no-one took photos of me on a horse. Darn ;D
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The highpoints were fun but forested, so no great views. The Butte County highpoint did require hiking on the PCT to get there. This is cool since it'll be 5 - 8 years before we reach that point on our continuous PCT hike. The photo comparisons between then and now will no doubt be very interesting.
So, rafting was great. Here's a few photos:
Madeleine was a complete berserker. She took every gush of water as a personal affront, yipping, barking and snapping at each until she'd finally throw herself out of the boat at some random wave:
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The part of the Trinity we ran has only one class three rapid (the rest is easier). "Hell Hole" is pretty fun. In this shot you can see that dog attacking the waves:
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Here the dog is way up in the air (she landed back in the raft):
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We did some cliff jumping:
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And, to our immense surprise, even Tricia went for it:
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We were back to work and the usual routine this last week. Tomorrow we go racing a sailboat on the bay (your bay, the one over there). Then work next week for me and... Katie starts high school Wednesday (yes, we really are that old).
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Wow, cool fun.
Classic photo dropping in.
That looks like a big ass jump with Tricia in the pic.
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The cliff jumping brings back some fond memories of high school river trips on Battle Creek and the Sacramento River... :)
Looks like some serious fun!
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What a cool vacation! The best part is you are all in it, even the dog! I can almost picture Madeleine telling the exciting rafting stories to your neighbors' dogs.
And I know for a fact now that Tricia is way braver than me. That cliff, that water!
But were those sports bras you were wearing cliff jumping?
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"But were those sports bras you were wearing cliff jumping?"
Not sure if you're serious, but, no, they're PFDs ("Personal Flotation Devices"). Life jackets
We raced for almost 6 hours on the Bay yesterday, placed 5th of 15 boats that raced without spinnakers. My uncle's boat has a theoretical maximum speed in the mid-seven knots and, according to GPS, we hit just over nine knots a few times. Great wind.
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In order to continue the entertainment:
Heeled over going 8 knots:
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Big hair in big wind:
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Going 9 knots past the Port of Oakland:
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My daughter is a spitting image of how my sister looked at the same age:
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Leading some of the pack:
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good stuff, you around tomorrow?
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wait there munge..where have you been?
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Supposed to start trial at 8:00 AM, so I'm around tonight. If I'm reading your mind right the answer is "we did all of it." ;D
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Supposed to start trial at 8:00 AM, so I'm around tonight. If I'm reading your mind right the answer is "we did all of it." ;D
huh? you were at Castle Rock State Park bouldering the classics?
:)
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Haven't been to Castle in over 20 years. No, the "we've done it all" comment was directed to where you just were. Every potential line you just saw, we did already in the late 80s and early 90s. Sorry. Should have saved you some.
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heh, I don't blame you. amazing rock up there.
let's talk Red Dome when you have a chance.
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looks like fun, good stuff brad!