Did anyone get out in the rain or mud during our fine weather?

My kayaking group had a good couple of weeks with a Toyota Tacoma ending in a shop due to vandalism while on the river. the other car on this outing ended up with some water damage as the drainage flashed on them. The other half of us want to the east Verde river from east Verde estates to baby doll ranch. Some great white water in there.

On Saturday I left my house for a 6 mile paddle from 1 mile short of crown king AZ to cleator AZ. Our goal was to be the first to paddle Poland creek through what they call hells hole. We put on the river around 9:30 am. The amount of water was perfect as we headed down stream there were many slides and falls. To cap of a seemingly good river trip we ended up 3.8 miles short of our destination just before sunset. We gathered enough fire wood to last the night. This was the coldest night ever I can recall in my paddling experience.

The next day we finished paddling the river at about 2:30pm. I made it back to phoenix by 4:00 to get in trouble by the misses for not calling the night before. Huh like i planned to be away all night.

On the bright side of things the truck performed awesome in the mud *** this was the first actual mud that was longer than 100 yds for the truck. It was sweet.

 

just curious, what size tires and lift do you have? and i wish i was in your shoes, getting stuck while kayaking.. havent been able to have that kind of fun in a long time. the last time i went was about 2 years ago, open top kayak, and no white water... makes it easy to drink the beer, but thats all the excitement there is....

 

I have a 6" super-lift 315 70 R17 pro comp Xtreme mud terrains. The video is being edited and i will post a link. but here is a link to my early spring padling in AZ. http://www.huckinhuge.com/mediapage.html I forgot I am the one in the yellow kayak.

 

bad freakin' ***! how long have you been kayaking? i've never done anything that technical... maybe a 3 at most, but that was a long time ago when i was still living in CO. the rivers here in tx have no kick to them. as i said before though, they are great for sitting in a tube and floating a cooler of beer along side you[sm=partyparty.gif]

 

I began kayaking hard shell in 1997, others in 1994.

 

dang. . .everyone is getting rain but the south east[:@]

 

thisis the first rain we have had (ok second weekend of it) for 6 months!! this desert oasis has been hittin the stock piled water for a while now (colorado river )

where I live on the east side of the Phoenix metro area, temps have dropped to high 30's at night recently.

 

Here's me gettin all crazy ...

 

Kev. . . .it's rained only about ONCE in the past 6 months here. usualy we get something every other week.

 

mayfair is that a river near you it looks similar to on I used to paddle all the time when I lived in utah. How long have you been paddling for?