Sometimes the best rescue is to get hands on.
| River: | French Broad |
| Skill: | Novice+ |
| Trip Date: | 07/08/2022 |
Sometimes the best rescue is to get hands on.
Thursday, 7/8/2022 French Broad Section 9 trip report.
15 boaters ferried across the river at Barnard put-in to look at the huge snake mural on the bridge. If you look directly into the snake’s big eye, you will see a mountain scene. It’s a beautiful mural, definitely worth the ferry across to river left.
The water was a very warm chocolaty brown and the recent rains brought it up to a perfect level of 2,000 cfs (2.14 feet) on a beautiful, partly cloudy 86 degree F day.
This was a pfd for Connor, Mike, and Jordy. Mike and Jordy made the most of every river feature in their playboats.
Connor led us to our lunch break without even knowing that he picked the exact spot where Lee and Michele got married.
We may or may not have had a couple of 🏊♀️🏊♀️ swimmers in the river.
We split up at pinball rapid with half the group taking pinball on the left side of the island and the other half taking the pit stop line on the right side of the island.
Everyone decided to proceed to the takeout from river left and therefore no one needed to dodge the steel spikes coming out of the right half of the river at rebar rapid.
And we implemented a hands-on rescue of a Kia after the driver underestimated the softness of the ground when he used the river take-out ramp as a turn-around.
#cccwor2022
Paddlers were: Lynn, Jeff, Lee, Michele, Connor, Mike, Jordy, Ron, Wes, Liz, Ken, Marilyn, Lisa, Daniel, and a guy in a blue and white half-slice who I’m sorry that I forgot his name.
