Epic Canoe Trip '07 a success!

This years canoe trip was a success with almost no mishaps.

This years trip started out on Thursday for some of the guys.
The rest of us met up with them on Friday as planned and we did still wait for an extra half hour past the said time of noon.
No one even sunk on take off like last year.

My weed whacker prop thing kind of worked, but didn't have enough torque or enough clutch power to work properly. Oh well, At least it finally got tested.

The weather was beautiful for the first day. Much sunscreen was needed. Shortly after lunch we saw my mom from the bike trail.

It was a typical day just paddling and watching the scenary.

We made it to the rope swing mid after noon when it was plenty warm enough to want to swim. This swing gives some epic huge air and good swing out over some large sharp rocks.

We made it to our 1st camp site in the early evening and got setup. We were joined here by Gordy, David, and Crazy Dave. Crazy Dave was a blast to hang out with. His opinions about everything were most entertaining. We decided later he could have an awesome call in radio station to rival Howard Stern.

There was a bit of yelling from the drunk locals, but overall an enjoyable nite.

Saturday proved to be another gorgeous day, although there was a wicked bad headwind that just made going forward a pain. If you stopped paddling you would actually be blown back upriver at 1.5mph.


There was more sun this day required many layers of SPF 45. Not much happened this day. Just a general paddle down river and float when the wind wasn't blowing at gale force back up river.

There came a stop mid day at Angel Falls to hide the newly started annual Epic Canoe Trip Geocache. When we got to the falls another person told us that a geocache had already been hidden near there last week. Doug hid ours anyhow, and I scored another find. The falls were not as impressive this year as they were last year. Still cool tho. At this stop we also learned a valuable and expensive lesson about boating. Always have life jackets, ID, and a whistle when in the water or it could cost you up to $170 and quick end of your trip.

Geocache hidden it was onward to find a campsite, which actually took a considerable amount of time and ended with us camping near the bike trail close to Emlenton. This was a smallish campsite with little firewood, but it worked. It just required some artful hammock hanging.On the last day we just took it easy and didn't try real hard to go anywhere real fast. Except for Mike who does everything full throttle. :) We stopped at another rope swing on the way to Emlenton and did some more swimming.

I think all in all a good time was had by everyone. Feel free to check out all the pictures I took.