Friday, December 11, 2009

Oh Navatos, how I love thee

  So wow. Navatos is CRAZY awesome. When we were heading to the put in, honestly I was a bit nervous. This is easily the best run I have done yet. The first rapid is an epic slide and then it just keeps going.

Chris checking out the California slide.

  This rapid was awesome. A little over halfway down there is a massive kicker that gets you airborn. You shall see in the upcoming video. Shortly after we got to a 5 meter drop that lands very close to a wall. Thus, Wallfall!

Kyle lighting her up.

  There was a nice little gorge after this drop and then we got the so called mandatory.


Checking out the amazing drop.


Jake firing her up.

  The drop was pretty easy and really really fun. Soon after was a sweet autoboof and after that the Hairy Farry. No pics but lots of fun.

The runout of the Hairy Farry rapid

  There was a stupid little double undercut rapid that many ran, but I was already out of my boat and decided against it. Just didn't look fun.

 Approaching the end of the run we were told there was one more super fun rapid. This thing was crazy! Soooo awesome.


In the center of the gorge. Keegan, Julian and I enjoying life!

  The gorge consisted of a sweet 15 footer into a nice big boof and then some sweet runout. This is an amazing river that I strongly recommend to anyone that has a chance to run it. Till next time!

-Jon
 

2 comments:

  1. looks amazing!!! JR be drivin' down now with Wes to the SF airport. Hope he gets his gear thru with less problems than your guys' experience.

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  2. really beautiful gorge.....looks like amazing landscape.....have you seen any monkeys and parrots? of lizards? how are your lungs and allergies?

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