Today was a great day!!!! James and I decided to run up to Ny and paddle Skinner's Falls. Skinners Falls is a highly popular spot on the Upper Delaware River. Its main attraction is a set of Class I to II ledges that make up the "falls". Amonst the falls lays an outcrop of old huge stone rocks that look to have been ripped up by glacial activity many years ago. For anyone whom has yet to visit this amazing location.... please do so, it will not leave you dissappointed. Bring, a hibachi, or lunch cooler, swim clothes and a towel. Six dollars is all it costs to rent a large innertube for the day to run the rapids with... or you fellow yakers... bring your boats. Loads of fun.
This place is amazing... i absolutely love it there. the cleanliness of the water puts the lackawanna and the susquehanna to shame.... super clean, not a sign of garbage anywhere. nice people, lots from ny and nj. lots of pa people too. i have found my new place of zen.
Soo back to the heading at hand. James, my youngest sibling, and I decided to run the rapids today.
Although james nor myself has had any "formal instruction" we both managed to spin over rocks, and ride the very weak class II waves and ledge today without swimming. very proud of ya little man. We had a blast. then after rudely being insulted by a water rescue worker watching the area, we decided to head back up to the launch site and just playboat a bit.
As mentioned above.....a very ignorant and rude rescue worker insulted us today by telling us that"he could tell we had no formal training, and that in my own paraphrase, we would be stupid to run on something like the lehigh river. hmmmm let me see.... we totally made it downriver over the falls, we had proper head gear on, proper life vests, and we didn't fall in or have any trouble... if thats doing it wrong, whats doing it right? hmm maybe all the other people who followed us that day, in there rented kayaks and rafts.. no helmets and drinking.... did they get a lesson in proper instruction... NO. Then to top it all off, he asked me if i can do a proper wet exit out of my kayak.... lol... uhhh yeah i think so... i can roll, flip, stern stall and squirt....
this guy was just a total a hole.
so better things... We walked our kayaks back up the rocks to the launch site , and then we just played and chatted with other kayakers and rafters for the rest of the day..... met some awesome dude, in a dagger rpm max... great boat. and some other guy that used to run wavesport kayaks and lead a group at a camp... I love this sport... such a kinship between everyone... river people rock.
And the fact that James was there to do it all too made it worth more. He is planning on buying some gear of his own and jump right in to the sport... hes eager to get started learing the roll, and other playboat moves, and even run rapids.... So nice to have someone to go with. Thanks Bro.
i have several videos to post on here but it wont let me due to there size.. im gonna try to get one at least. thanks for reading.
more to come shortly.
-bob
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