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After about six months in my trusty H2Pro OC1 I did my first class 3 run of the Citico, then Tellico the next day, then Section 4 the next. I made it down upright for the most part. Ran Corkscrew backwards and portaged the dog. I totally understood/realized that class IV was 100% more difficult than class III.
The next time was doing the suicide section of LRC. I had a brand new boat (the H2Pro saw it's last day on the Doe not long before). I was only intending to run the upper two with my bro which we had done many times. It was raining and the level was 3 inches and rising. So we met this orthodontist and his two sons that needed a shuttle for suicide. They said if you're running humpty then nothing up there is any harder except pinball and cable. So off we went. That was one intense but fun day. It was about 7" when we got off. The suicide is definitely a step up from the upper two.
The other time I stepped it up sort of...I was off paddling for about six months after my son was born. I thought I'd be the same paddler with the same skills. So my first run was LRC in my c1 cruise control. I was used to hitting all the lines with relative ease, rarely flipping, and hadn't swam in a long time. About 30 flips, 2 swims, and 8 head hits (3 of which saw stars) made me realize that I lost something. That was over 8 years ago and it's never been quite the same...alot to do with having kids and being a responsible dad also simply not the river time I used to get. |
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