Trip report for April 30, 2005

Reported by Janelle

We did the Yellow River – again. Pretty tame and nobody dunked. They say a third time is a charm. We included, Jon `n' John, Ken, Renee, Theresa, Glenn and Janelle. Brenda ran shuttle and photographed crazy people.

It was about 40 degrees F. when we put in. No rain or wind this time, just a little snow. Sadly, there were only ripples- no rapids of any consequence. The only near dunk was when Glenn discovered a rock. But at that only his knees down including the insides of those boots got wet.

However, there was one almost outbreak amongst the boys, and they tried to blame it on poor Renee. Glenn got out using the facilities and his boat got away. Jon's story is that he went to rescue Glenn's boat. Glenn's story is that the boat was perfectly still and that the boat had help leaving. I believe that he thought that the help was Jon. Somehow the rumor got started that it was Renee that saw that Glenn's boat was an easy target. You all decide what you think the real story is.

Glenn got his boat back and within minutes Renee and Ken decided to go shore side. For some reason – they took turns. I got the impression that they did not trust their fellow paddlers.

At the take out Ken demonstrated advanced boat shuttle technique by putting the canoes on the rack and balancing my play boat on the hood of the car. Theresa was not impressed- she carried her boat to the other side o the highway.

Thanks to the invention of the cell phone (and credit goes to Jon for paying his bill because the thing worked) we ordered pizza on the long arduous (20 minute) drive back to town. We watched the preview screening of the April Fools Duncan Creek River Excursion. Great footage, great sound effects (hint: one is plooop), and I pretty much cursed myself for not taking the day off to run the thing. Then we watched NARPU another white water production which, if you were a whitewater boater, made you want to run off to the middle of nowhere, repel your boat into a ravine and pummel yourself and your creek boat off from waterfalls. Playboating appeared to be an active rest period exercise for the NARPU paddlers.

Oh yeah, back to Duncan Creek….. We now have photographic evidence that Don can not only make a canoe go (almost) airborne but can appear out of nowhere and pop up in the middle of rushing water to walk across the creek. I am impressed by that one. Sorry Don, we gotta pick on someone and it might as well be someone who is not around to fight back ;-)