Life here in California is sweet! So on Tuesday Martina, Toni, Chris, Christy and I missioned over to do a multi day trip on the Middle Fork of the Feather. The guide book says its a three day trip but we decided to bust it out in two. We didn't end up getting on the river till quite late on the Tuesday so only paddled for a couple of hours before finding a nice campsite. Camping in California is easy, its warm and hardly ever rains! You just have to be aware of the foreign dangers- snakes, mountain lions and poison oak! The first evening of kayaking was super chill grade 3 fun easy wave chains but continuous nice rapids. The second day we awoke to the beautiful Californian sun and began our descent down the river at around 10am. The first section was pretty chill with the occasional tricky rapid but mostly super fun wave chain and rollercoaster rapids. On entering the gorges the paddling stepped up a bit. The first canyon (Bald Rock Canyon) we bombed down quite fast. Then carried on at a steady pace till we reached a tricky looking rapid that looked a bit shitty so we portaged it. Not long after this we discovered a massive crack in Christy's kayak, Toni used her talented welding skills to fix it up well Martina and I made lunch.
As the run progressed so did the rapids! The final canyon (Devils Canyon) was super super fun and had a lot of sick pieces of whitewater. The run was really continuous and really enjoyable. We attacked with a solid pace and it wasn't till we got to the big portage at around 6pm that we realised how tired we were. We managed to finish at around 8pm, a long but epic day on the river! Well the others ran the shuttle Martina and I walked up the hill, it got quite dark and scary...mountain lions are definately my new greatest fear!
I havn't got any pictures from the run yet but I will put some up soon. This is Toni's car 'Nemo' that her and Leela bought a few years back, it runs like a dream!
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