Last year, my first swim of the year was on January 1st,
and I swam again before the month was out. This year it took a little longer, but I finally had my
first swim of 2017.
With Father’s Day and rainy weather, I knew it would be
tough to get out this weekend, so I decided to join the local AMC group on their
Thursday night run at Tville.
Tville is a short but fun trip at this level - 1.7 feet, 600 cfs. It has some nice surf spots above the
Gorge, and a couple of pool drops in the Gorge. The highlight of the trip for most is the playhole.
To be honest, I usually skip the playhole and focus on taking pictures. I had tried it once before at about the same level, bounced around for a few seconds before backing out with the boat still upright, and considered myself lucky. It didn’t look too bad on Thursday, so I decided to give it a try again.
I ventured in and the boat immediately got swung around sideways. I side-surfed for a couple of seconds
before doing a couple of forward strokes to get myself out. I was almost out when the boat hit the stronger downstream current that the edge of the hole, shifted
upstream, and over I went.
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| Over I go in the Playhole |
I gave the boat a good push thinking that would get it over
to the eddy, but in the strong current it continued downstream – and me with
it. I decided that I had better focus
on getting myself to shore, which I did.
My boat went over the next drop before the crew as able to push it into
an eddy.
Even with the swim, it was another fun trip, and I reamain
captain of the swim team for 2017! From Tom (canoeswithduckheads) on P-net:
There's a vortex in which the little yaks squirt,
and twist and flip roll play,
with bipolar tale they flail and flail,
wave-to-wave they glide away,
but for big gnu this just won't do,
whilst in their one-legged doggy paddle,
with a sideways buck they often like to chuck,
into the trough riders from the saddle.
TW
There's a vortex in which the little yaks squirt,
and twist and flip roll play,
with bipolar tale they flail and flail,
wave-to-wave they glide away,
but for big gnu this just won't do,
whilst in their one-legged doggy paddle,
with a sideways buck they often like to chuck,
into the trough riders from the saddle.
TW
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