Round Two

Let's try this again. Hopefully it will be easier this time now that I have actually started to paddle whitewater.

I've gone to quite a few pool sessions and have a relatively solid onside roll in whatever boat I can fit into. I usually manage to get my roll on my second try. We managed to get a mailing list running for kayaking so we weren't piggybacked on of the Outing Shmuck list.

Thanks to an influence of some good freshman kayakers I got to get out of the pool and down to the whitewater park in Pueblo. The first time I was in the largest playboat that the school has which was a little too small. Too small as in when I missed my roll coming off of the last wave train and my left foot got stuck in the boat. So I switched to a creeker for the next two runs and took pictures. Hooray for dry bags!

David throwing a loop



Claire busting into the rapid



David making a face


Eliza remembering that she likes to breathe air


Claire draining


Will busting out his ninja style


Claire catching an edge


David reminding us how it's done


Will breathing the wrong medium


Tom throwing some water into the air


And showing the other side of his boat


I'm not sure how that works

And that was just day two in Pueblo, more to come.