Liquid Descents: #8 South Saint Vrain

On Tuesday I was still sore and recovering from the century I put on my bike, so I decided to do a little nearby boating. I met up with Ian, Scott, and Mike and we hit up SSV.

Most people talk smack aboot this run but we had pretty decent flows. The group was guessing about 250cfs. I personally thought the run was sweet and a good technical run.

the bad news was I broke my boat and I don't know how cause I didn't hit anything too hard. Kinda sucks I only got three days out of it.

The other bad news was that I swam. I was coming down one of the longer rapids and the boater in front of me was not having the best of lines and basically went down it backwards and so I was catching up to him. As I came over the last horizon line I was staring right at him and was about to boof over the hole right into his face. I turned at the last second and hit him out of the hole but it put me in the hole nice and side ways. I gave her a good run for the money for about 20-30 seconds but finally could not pull myself out and got windowshaded for the second time and pulled. When I came up, I was surprised to see another boat and swimmer in the hole with me.

The rapid that caused all the damage. Still a super fun rapid

I grabbed my stuff and we rescued the other swimmer's boat and paddle so it was no biggy and I haven't done a hole ride in a while so it was probably a good thing.