kayaking on the chattahoochee • 06.13.10
just wanted to share a couple of pics/video of how beautiful it is down on the hooch. lil and i set out for the day and spent about 4 hours on the river. it was a bright (and hot) sunny day, but the cool water has a nice way of balancing it out. a little crowded this time down (what is it about rivers and rafts that attracts so many fat, loud, tattooed people??) but still great and with plenty of peaceful stretches. we were trying out our new boat (bought to replace the one that got partially devoured by a rat in our storage unit) that lillis is sporting below.
it’s a little sleeker and a little faster than the one i had and has more room for packing up stuff for that 3 day cruise down a river that we’d like to try sometime.
below are a pic and then a video of my boat. drew actually showed me last fall the technique of “locking it up” on a little rapid, where you can get your nose up into the rapid and the water will more or less hold you in place. kind of a cool trick.
