This has been an amazing weekend! I was able to get out and paddle
(which I am sure you know I love to do). Andrea, Jared, and I made a
run down the lower yough over the weekend before we headed down to
West Virginia. In WV we went to the Tygrat River to a white water
clinic. In the clinic we worked on our boof strokes which are used
when running water falls. I am guessing that you can figure out what
we did next... we ran Valley Falls!
It was awesome! Of course I did not do so well because I only started
whitewater kayaking last year, but it was all in good fun. My fiist
run over the falls was right on line. Unfortunately, my boof stroke
did not have enough power and I faceplanted into the water. I rolled
up and was fine. I had to redeem myself so I went up to run it again.
Lets just say that my first run was my better run. My line was perfect
again, but I flipped at the bottom and ended up in the curtain of the
falls. (This is not where you really want to be... Oops) I rolled up
twice in the falls and when I flipped again I came out of my boat. I
tucked into a ball and I swam deep down to get away from the falls.
When I popped up from under the water I still had a smile on my face!
I only ran a rockslide twice after that and called it a day on running
anymore waterfalls. I just took pictures of Andrea and Jared after
that. I still had a ton of fun! Next year I think that I will be more
ready for class 4 whitewater.

Me going over Valley Falls!