A friend who moved to Idaho is in town with his kayak and he came with us, a friend from Palmer also joined us. We met a kayaker at the put-in who is fairly new to kayaking and who had never paddled Eagle before and he joined us as well.
I didn't chicken out this time and I ran Campground rapid. I didn't have my most graceful run as I went through the middle section sideways when I couldn't get my boat to point downstream. I thought I was going to bash a rock and swim the bottom drop but at the last moment I got the boat to turn as I went down the face of a wave and I scooted around the rock. I did however go right over the pour-over at the bottom. I did my boof stroke at the edge of the rock and made it across the hole. Upright and dry!
As my hubby says, "you have to make the boat do what you want it to do!" I have to work on that in pushy water.
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