Liquid Descents: #14 Oh-Be-Joyful

If you have ever been to OBJ you know that there are huge mountains usually behind the put in, not today my friends

Ah, what makes CB worth it. OBJ is a kayaker's Disneyland, nothing but fairly easy waterfalls and slides. Flows were low due to it being cold and rainy/snowy. Speaking of which except for one day on my tour I have been rained or snowed on everyday. I guess it has been good since the snow melt has slowed. Luckily Mark with KEEN gave me a pair of Shellrock WP shoes which have been amazing at keeping my feet dry. They have been comfortable enough to hike around in and then stiff enough in the sole to ride a bike for good long hauls. Even when it has been hot my feet haven't become sweat buckets, the shoes are pretty dang cool if you ask me.

Stern first baby

When we went up to OBJ it began to snow and I had about a half an inch of snow in my cockpit just waiting to put on. Colorado weather is always some of the strangest weather out there.

Georgia 1 havin some fun on first drop

I love that you put on and take two strokes and launch a clean 15ft falls and then it is off to the races.

Say it with me now: BOOF

Even though the flows were low it was still great fun and the big falls is always good. Can you even mess that one up? I have seen stomping boofs, 45 degrees, pencils, head landings and it always ends up with a smile.

BK to the fullest dropping 24.45738459587439 ft

Georgia 2 In the mix with the big one

Avalanche was pretty scrapy and you do have to portage around the corner now, which you didn't two years ago. I did decide to run the lower slides and they actually felt like they had the most water on them and it all went smooth as butter. The last one could always get ugly if you don't get left.

Georgia 3 droppin it like its hot

Ian and the gents left that evening and I stayed to wait for the Kelly Bros. to show up. Later that evening I met some good ol' boys from Georgia and took them down the run for a nice second lap for the day. They were out doing a pretty good tour before college started. Isn't it great to be young?

During the middle of the night a group showed up at the campsite and that would lead to the next mission, later to come.

The next day I sat around reading the third book that I have been reading on the trip " A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Poole, who also wrote one other book "The Neon Bible" which is the name of the sophmore album by Canada's sweet band The Arcade Fire. I would recommend both the book and the band if you have not been introduced to either yet. Here is a great song from their debut album "Funeral" to give you a taste. Did I mention they play a Hurdy Gurdy?

Finally the Kelly Bros. show up, with Paul sporting a brand new Mango Jefe, I was extremely jealous. We put on and ran down to Avalanche as it had gotten even lower than the previous day. We decided to hike back up and run the section again since it was so fun. We then hung around the 23.5985784654875467534657* ft waterfall and hucked it for a while working on different poses that would have Sports Illustrated all up on our jock begging for photo rights and making us billionaires. I think I might have ran the waterfall about six or seven times that day. It is that fun. Seriously people.

As always OBJ was a photo-op and so I got a few for ya.