Sunday, May 17, 2009

South Cedar

After hitting up some east water i parted from my road gang and stopped off in nashville and hung out with annie's sister erika and her husband ben. We sat around an inner city fire and drank some home brew that was extremely tasty. As strange as it sounds, there is actually a pretty cool feeling you get while sitting next to a fire in a huge action filled city.

i tried to impress some strangers by challenging them to a shotgun contest with my homely coors light... i got owned!.. amazing talent in nashville (not just vocal!). Check out "Heypenny" http://www.heypenny.com/ for some amazing music and unique video technique. Ben (middle) is lead vocals and dj (right) plays bass. the 3rd member pictured (left) will be named as "Victor" for winning the contest by far.

After I got back i got a call from joe saying he had hit up some goods on south cedar at a phat level. I had watched joe C's video before... i was instantly drawn in by the double crux rapid chief. The lead in looked like it was filled with crazy cross currents just waiting for that unsuspecting boater. The other two drops didn't look bad either. A 15 footer with a boof shelf on the left and a little pocket rapid with a nasty wall ride " buster" or a sweet "booster" line on the left.

My gear was still drying from my trip when joe calls and says "lezzz go south... cedar." We loaded up and made the trip through the gray area to the goods. The level was lower than the day before but still definitely worth the trip.

The falls were perfect and the left boof line was going (wait for the video). The Butt Booster/Buster was a little bony on the booster side so it was buster that day TWICE. Chief was still cheif and good to go.

Joe C firing it up in perfect pose
Butt Booster/Buster.. SHARP


Looking downstream at chief. Chief is so long you can't really get a picture.

I'm sure this is why Joe C dubbed this rapid Chief



This place is a wonderland of spillways. This line is still yet to be run. The middle line in the far left of the picture was fired off fairly recently. If we didn't have pressure from johnny law there would be pictures and footy of another perfect auto boof on a separate spillway. Too bad.

Defnite thanks go out to both Joes for sharing this wonderland.

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