Friday I took another easy day (off) and paddled Brown's Canyon with some boaters from our campground. I heard it was a must paddle because it was so scenic. Brown's was a very fun run. It had a lot of boogie water and a handful of cool rapids with nice wave trains. Zoom Flume was probably my favorite. Toward the end of the run I saw a rattle snake floating in the cold water. I felt bad for for it and decided to try to save it. After about a 1/2 mile and a bazillion bushes I eventually got it to shore and it VERY slowly started to slither away. Does that count towards my river karma points even though it was a rattle snake?
Saturday I ended up hooking up with some Colorado natives to run the Numbers and Fractions sections of the Arkansas. It was really fun. The Numbers section was very similar to the Cheoah except a little bigger and more continuous in places. The Fractions was just plain fun. It has a lot of really fun wave trains. It was similar to that wave just before Flipper on the Ocoee except a tad bigger and like 7-8 of them in a row like 4 or 5 times! I actually starting giggling a bit as I was running them!
At the end of the day I ran into Lanie at the put in and ended up running another lap of the Numbers with her. It felt bigger than the morning and even more fun! The Numbers is a great run and is super fun at 2400 cfs. It is a definite must paddle in CO.
Jason
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