80 degrees and sunny

Well here we are like a week shy of October and I'm still homless. There talking of snow next week. Oh shit right? haha. Well I am getting close to finding a place, I can feel it. I have been working full time and paddling just as much so life is great. Burrito is still grinding away all sicky like. We demo'd an 09 and a 010 allstar. Or maybe superstars, I don't even know- but they were enormous boats and, honestly, it cramped my style. The results from the slalom came back. Lets just say that I should probably stick to what I'm good at and leave that racing nonsense for someone else.

We boated the Narrows the other day. I had never been downriver of Sheep Gulch and it we had heard rumors of a big wave collomonly refered to as BFG or Big Friendly Giant. It was a nice float because there was some minor drops in elevation and the river pinches to be 10ft wide in a certain section. As far as BFG, were not sure what we found. A few nice on the fly waves and holes- none of any considerable size or quality, and 1 thing, I'm not even quite sure what to call it. I guess technically it is a wave, but it sucks out from below river level all gnarly like.. Surfers left is like a breaking bowly green thing trying to gobble you up, and surfers right is more of a wave with a pile on top, but it wants to push you far right off the wave. I droped into the green bowly part of the feature and felt myself get eaten up and not resurface on the face of the wave for maybe as long as 3 or 4 seconds. Then after a short surf I got pushed off the wave to the right. I hiked it once, but that was all it was worth. Maybe at other flows? The float itself was great though. A nice deep narrow canyon with super clear jade green water, combined with a nice day and the afternoon sun and even the flatwater was a good time.

Burrito was soo good the other day. The flow was probably like 3700cfs and you could get on top of the pile, and bounces and it was way retentive and just very condusive for doing cool things in a kayak.

and the Burkes...
So the last time I see this girl was back in VB. Then she shows up here in town the other day with her whole family in tow. These people took me into thier lives and thier home during thier time here giving me food and showers and even a bed to sleep in. It was a bit crazy at times, but these folks were so nice to me, and did thier very best to try and clean me up best they could. At somepoint even my laundry got done and was folded waiting for me. Before they left they gave me a pair of cowboy boots, a brand new button down shirt, and a new filled growler and sent me on my way. Thanks for everything guys.