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It's a pretty, fun, pretty chill section. I'm lucky to get around! :-)

Thanks 👍

Hope you had a good trip!

The one Snowman!

The guy is a canoe ace!

Good question. With all of the weight in the bow on this trip, paddling from the kneeling thwart wasn't necessary. My knees would rather the option of the relief of the seat sometimes if I don't need to be forward for weight distribution.

The second one was just a few miles from the takeout. First one is pretty noticeable from the water, just a mile or so short of a recreation area. Honestly don't recall all the details.

Glad you enjoyed the video. We had planned on Pine River in MI this year, but a blizzard scared us to WV. The others you mentioned are also on our list. Check the channel for other kayak camping (mostly WV -- check out the Smoke Hole!) and whitewater kayaking videos...

Thanks. Yeah that was my sense when I was looking for videos that I really wasn't seeing much for the Tuckahoe.

I definitely want to do that. I guess there's like a short wine and a long wine?

@@drchip87 I don't know. The idea of dandelion wine stuck with me after reading Ray Bradbury's book , "Dandelion Wine" in the 1970s. I looked the recipe up online and used that. It got moved from Bexley to Nelsonia Place and finally consumed. It wasn't "company" wine. I do want to try the dandelion fritters or just eating them with beer. What a thought!

The rules are tricky. In PA. You need a specific permit to back country camp in every separate county. On the trip we did that meant two different permits, then there are rules to follow as to where you can camp. Basically the only meaningful legal camping is in pre-existing sites. Around our first campsite there were many options. But we were lucky to find a single spot for our second night and in fact thought we were going to have to paddle out that day instead of getting to camp that night.

Eh, passive voice is your friend. :-) But, you're right.

But, it was a telephone pole. Then a few bushes. No trees.

The brand is a "Shredder." There are other brands, but a shredder is the Kleenex of tissues. Give it a Google.

www.golaurelhighlands.com/blog/post/this-is-shredder-country-airtight-inflatables/

@@drchip87 Thx!

About 3'. See AW link in video description for details.

Wasn't just raising my head? How would I know in the moment to go off-side? BTW, hit my roll first try today on North Branch. :-)

@@drchip87 I don't know that you were or were not raising your head as the video doesn't really tell us that. Given that you aren't known for swimming, I would doubt this to be your issue as most of the head raisers swim almost every time. However, most folk do not experience the underwater resistance to coming up until they get into big water, which is what you had that day. You can tell because it seems that you're putting a ton of effort into coming up, but just not quite getting there. The solution is to go as you fall back down, and dive around and go up the other side. If the current is the culprit and you don't spin around, you'll find yourself hopping up almost supernaturally quick. However, that dive must be quick and clean because if not, it can cause you to spin around 90 degrees and then the same issue happens on the other side and life continues to suck.

As an aside, I noticed in this video that you seem to struggle a lot with the water. Maybe this prevents your swims, but in the long run will cause you stress that is not needed. I know it is hard to not fight to maintain what you know to be the right, I don't know, posture maybe? But you almost have to go into brain dead druggie mode and just relax. You can go with the water, even if it drops you down and you have to roll. When this happens, you can feel this and ride with it. As a hand paddler, I embraced it. With a normal paddle, I don't anymore (and I'm not as good because of it), but sometimes I still do and roll, even at times others would look at me and wonder why I did. I guess I'm trying to say relax more. Sometimes I use what I call "Gondola" style. Where I literally lay down on the back of my boat and drive from way back there. I have no stability, but do not care as I am also setup to quickly back deck roll if need be, and it's really easy and relaxing. I guess I am now saying to learn a back deck roll as it is the bomb. ;) I guess I am most saying that relaxation is the best thing for you based on your video.

@@nixon2tube appreciate the feedback, and always welcome for even more. I know that I was nervous for most of this run after Entrance, and was particularly nervous for Bottle of Wine when Matt said he thought it would be the hardest. My issue was feeling I didn't know the lines, and was struggling in distinguishing waves from holes (hence dropping into two holes in Bottle of Wine alone). Maybe that's some of it. But, I have found that when I'm more "comfortable" my body is looser, and that works out better. Gotta work on that more -- and find a way to start a run looser, as opposed to finding my looseness along the way.

@@nixon2tube "....you almost have to go into XXXXX mode and just relax....." makes sense. I watch thousands of rafters and kayakers on the lower Yough, for years now, at much less stressful water levels though, and that kind of is a big point. And I watch a lot of pro kayakers, I call you guys, videos. There's a relaxed smoothness going on in your heads and postures, etc. Makes me wonder if the best rubber rafters guides, pros, would be good at cowboy wild horse breaking job, riding the bucking horses until they are broken and rideable.

Narration? Or just me saying "shit, sorry" while paddling?

@@drchip87 One and the same! Or on the Sandusky River, in February, when you say hooollllllyyy s h i t as you encounter Huss Street Wave!

I have been accused of lacking a brain to mouth filter... :-)

Most of my swearing on the river occurs in my head. However, on my first descent of Showers, all profanity was audible (ask Janice!)

I just go with the flow...

Keep an eye on water levels. I hear June might be too low water, but I'm not a local so cant say for sure.

We went mid-May.

No, this is further upstream. This is the section shown in this video: www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/view/river-detail/1719/main

If you hit that flake boof to the left of where you went at the top of double drop, it makes the set up easier for the 2nd drop.