Drove from Montreal on Friday evening with 2 other guys.
Joined up with the 7 from Ottawa; but only 5 kayakers....cool shuttle bunnies!!
Paul, you should have brought your gear...just in case.
And then run Taylorville (III) with us on the second round....8-)
After watching a bunch of dimwits (dimshits or whatever the name of their group is) go down Eagle in a 3 men raft (wider than some spots), we were all cold...but the 3 of us and 3 from Ottawa proceeded to go down.
Benjamin, TJ (Mtl) and I took it from the top entry slide and hooked up with Todd, Jack and Francois (Mtl) at the top of the first slide.
For the second slide, TJ went ahead to escape the side effects of a Louis' line, only to mess it up at the top and went full right but brought it back on track. The little typewriter curler at the top had destabilized him and a solid brace enabled to stay upright but the typewrite to go Ting! full right.
Wanting to do better I punched the curler hard...a bit too hard...went right through and right into the wall. Boing! Unpinning...sliding all the way to the right with the typewriter...darn! Time to paddle hard and zoom! zoom! paddled across below the rock hand back into the right channel...ouf!
On the injury side, I managed to scrape my thumb while hand rolling back up on the rocks just above the 6ft waterfall.
Overall, not too bad...not perfect, but not too bad, and overall a great day!
We waited for the Ottawa party after the run - and they apparently waited for us...
We drove down to the bottom to see where they were.....gone.
And now, MERDE. Paul/Bill has my throw rope!!!
LD
