Bachlor Party!
Hi all. Been a while so I thought I should just start up this blog again and post about last weekend's bachlor party!
Left on Friday morning and headed up to Redding, CA with Sean Gray and Amit Wason. Met up with Jeremy Austin and Simon Orchover that evening and had a great time and great dinner in Redding. After a relatively peaceful evening at the Howards (thanks much to the Howard's for lending us their house) we departed Saturday morning early for Happy Camp CA to meet with the kayaking crew for a kayaking and camping trip with Momentum River Rafting Company!
On the way up to the cast off point in Happy Camp!
We spent the first day getting to know the guides and getting to know our kayaks. The kayaks were inflatable kayaks that worked great!
We were setup with a wetsuit, lifejacket, and overcoat. The water wasn't too cold but the extra layers did help. We hit a few gnarly rapids; I believe the wildest one was a category 3+ rapid called "Dragon's Tooth". We actually handled it quite well! All of us did flip the kayaks at least once with the exception of Jeremy who was able to upright the entire trip. We rafted down the Klamath River until about 3:30 PM and setup camp along the river at a sandy beach area. Our awesome guides setup their "kitchen" and cooked an awesome meal of carnitas, homemade corn tortillas and mashes potatoes! We opened a great bottle of GoldenEye Pinot Noir for dinner and ended with some fruit, chocolate and a Single Malt Glenrothes Scotch thanks to Sean!
Second day consisted of a cast off and another day of rafting down the Klamath. No one flipped off thier kayaks even though we did hit some awsome rapids!
Overall it was an awsome trip and we're looking forward to more rafting trips like this again!
Guides setting up the kitchen!
Sean and Amit enjoying GoldenEye Pinot with the plastic glasses. Kind of sacraligious but that's what you get to deal with on the river! :-)
Great shot from our campsite!