Saturday, July 26, 2008
(Posted on Monday, July 28)
Woke up at friggin 5:10am, a few minutes before the alarm was about to kick me out. Headed over to good old Lotus, CA for some river bouncing with All-Outdoors Rafting. I like that their site says SF to Lotus 130miles/3hrs, San Jose 155miles/3hrs, uh i dun think so. I leave the house at 5:45am, i arrive at 8:05am with a 10-15min stop at burger king. The gate was closed to the parking lot, so i roam the town..
I see bumpies on the water! This curve was near the Lotus Park.
The bachelor crew arrives, mostly recovering from a previous night of drunken stupor. It was so good that our badass guide raft could smell it while on the boat. We chill in a group of 3 boats, with ours in the back and the largest with 8 peoples.
Todays rafting is a Class 3 upper section of the south fork, kinda mellow with one really sketchy section and 2 more milder ones. I'll be getting pictures soon, theres some good ones. Our guide Mr. Mason is a college student whos spent time in afghanistan and iraq. He's like a good DJ, where he can read the group and figure the level of madness that we wanted. He asked the question just to ask 'do you want it 1) mellow and smooth? 2) a little rocky 3) Be bounced around like ping-pong. Obviously we chose the latter, which was the best. Mason purposely bounced us off rocks, slid sideways into the water, causing the one side to get all wet, and he had a slight mischievous side. We snuck as close as we can to the other rafts and take down their guides. He's pretty good for that. Good times..
We get back to camp and i pitch my tent, as i'm finished one of the rafting managers comes up to us and informs us that the camp owners doesn't want any part of us and we are to be removed from the site. I look at them and wonder what the ?? Talk about party pooper. The bachelor and best man work things out with the manager and we're to be on our best behavior. I guess quiet time is 10pm, they didn't get quiet till 2am. I think the campsites main fault was to put a church group next to us.
New plan.. Drink like savages until 10pm, and then get knocked out by it.
We try an alternative method of beer delivery via high pressure water cannon. The high pressure part didn't work out well. It needs more experimentation and development. Currently it wasn't efficient, many a bottle of beer was wasted on this one. (it kinda looks like he's upchucking but he's not.)
I guess friday was all calm and quiet, minus these clowns, but today was mad!
The campsite next to us gave us the luau experience. Weren't there forest fires around here? This group was to our left, across from us was a bachelorette's camp. And with that we had extra river guides hanging out with us. I didn't know if they hung out to oversee us or to join the madness. This is definately the definition of good times. I slept with the smell of Patron. I should have taken more pics. Maybe it was better that i didn't..
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Now playing: Sungha Jung -Adirondac
via FoxyTunes
Woke up at friggin 5:10am, a few minutes before the alarm was about to kick me out. Headed over to good old Lotus, CA for some river bouncing with All-Outdoors Rafting. I like that their site says SF to Lotus 130miles/3hrs, San Jose 155miles/3hrs, uh i dun think so. I leave the house at 5:45am, i arrive at 8:05am with a 10-15min stop at burger king. The gate was closed to the parking lot, so i roam the town..
I see bumpies on the water! This curve was near the Lotus Park.
The bachelor crew arrives, mostly recovering from a previous night of drunken stupor. It was so good that our badass guide raft could smell it while on the boat. We chill in a group of 3 boats, with ours in the back and the largest with 8 peoples.
Todays rafting is a Class 3 upper section of the south fork, kinda mellow with one really sketchy section and 2 more milder ones. I'll be getting pictures soon, theres some good ones. Our guide Mr. Mason is a college student whos spent time in afghanistan and iraq. He's like a good DJ, where he can read the group and figure the level of madness that we wanted. He asked the question just to ask 'do you want it 1) mellow and smooth? 2) a little rocky 3) Be bounced around like ping-pong. Obviously we chose the latter, which was the best. Mason purposely bounced us off rocks, slid sideways into the water, causing the one side to get all wet, and he had a slight mischievous side. We snuck as close as we can to the other rafts and take down their guides. He's pretty good for that. Good times..
We get back to camp and i pitch my tent, as i'm finished one of the rafting managers comes up to us and informs us that the camp owners doesn't want any part of us and we are to be removed from the site. I look at them and wonder what the ?? Talk about party pooper. The bachelor and best man work things out with the manager and we're to be on our best behavior. I guess quiet time is 10pm, they didn't get quiet till 2am. I think the campsites main fault was to put a church group next to us.
New plan.. Drink like savages until 10pm, and then get knocked out by it.
We try an alternative method of beer delivery via high pressure water cannon. The high pressure part didn't work out well. It needs more experimentation and development. Currently it wasn't efficient, many a bottle of beer was wasted on this one. (it kinda looks like he's upchucking but he's not.)
I guess friday was all calm and quiet, minus these clowns, but today was mad!
The campsite next to us gave us the luau experience. Weren't there forest fires around here? This group was to our left, across from us was a bachelorette's camp. And with that we had extra river guides hanging out with us. I didn't know if they hung out to oversee us or to join the madness. This is definately the definition of good times. I slept with the smell of Patron. I should have taken more pics. Maybe it was better that i didn't..
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Now playing: Sungha Jung -Adirondac
via FoxyTunes
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