#11 "Little North"

Taking a break from our hike

Duke of Earl, Duke Ellington, and Duke of Hazard and myself hiked in to the "Little North" on Thursday. Flows were medium to medium high and were pretty darn fun.Getting ready to put on. From left to right: Duke of Earl, Duke Ellington, Duke of hazard

As always Starter Fluid did not disappoint and the whole upper section went off without a hitch except when I decided to exit my craft after running Cool World. My line on Cool world was good until the left eddy line grabbed me and spun me around. Usually I am having to paddle pretty hard left and since there was way more water pushing to the right I thought it would be even harder, but I barely did anything and then I was backwards. Oh well se la vi or something like that, carpe dium type stuff.

We got to Nitrogen Narcosis and had ourselves a little break before continuing on. We made pretty good time and it only took us six hours. We were on wood alert and were constantly scouting to make sure no problems arose.

Did anyone know that Bonk! is the shnip shnap snitty shnitty bang bang at this level?

Most of the in-between stuff was super fun and everything was juicing including Deion Sanders Gorge. There is the usual wood in there, but we did clean out some wood and the section of the upper Rush were there is a big honking tree river right and then a smaller tree on river left, we lifted the tree on the left up making it passable at higher flows.

I seriously love this river and cannot wait for the 4th.Coming back for you on Independence Weekend

the only bummer is that when it is this high the big three are becoming less than stellar and my personal fav, Slideways looked full on, so was a walk today. I guess that is the trade off.What happened to the eddys?

Probably one of the worst looking rapids was Tubular Balls. That thing just turned into a giant boil backing up a damn big hole. Run on the left with the tongue and watch out for the left wall.

Sorry the post is so lame I am tired and have to head to CB tomorrow.
Hope you all like the video

P.S. thanks to the Duchess of York for helping with the hike

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