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here's one NOT on my bucket list

We had a similar event several years ago down in Seward. And while i don't have All the particulars i have assumed the individual fit’s the above description.
there’s a diversion ditch/ tunnel down there that during “big water moments” completely cuts out the bridge below and washes the road out for several hundred who live further out. This thing has a lonnnnng history of road outages to it’s credit. So bad in fact that “the city” stages big equipment and 1,000’s of yards of rock/gravel across the street on the bay side. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attract...ews-Lowell_Creek_Waterfall-Seward_Alaska.html

On one occasion a local attempted a kayak run thru the tunnel and over the falls. We’ll as you can imagine; it didn’t go as planned and they sifted his body and personal gear out of the stream before it went into Resurection bay!

Not on my bucket list either!
 
You would think he would have had more than two points of view for recording such an epic (foolish) run.
At least do a better job of documenting the suicide mission.
If he had landed flat the compression would result in life long back issues, but at least he got his 15 minutes.
 
If y'all gonna show and talk about whitewater k^*#king just to be rambunctious on a rare occasion in one thread . . . okay, because I love whitewater . . . but you should at least know who and what you are talking about.

That is Dane Jackson, probably the G.O.A.T. extreme hairboating kayaker in the world . . . !!! . . . and many times world champion in whitewater freestyle competition in both kayak and C1 as recently as last month.

Dane is of the famous whitewater Jackson family. He is the son of Eric Jackson, multi-time world freestyle champion, member of the U.S. whitewater team for over two decades, and founder of the top selling whitewater kayak company in the world. Dane's sister Emily is also a freestyle and slalom kayak world champion.

Dane doesn't just "gravitate" down waterfalls, unless perhaps he is going for personal height records. He will frequently do loops, flips, screws, cartwheels and other freestyle tricks as he drops and boofs off big falls.

Here are two short videos that demonstrate Dane's world-class skills in some of the world's hardest and biggest waters:



Just two weeks ago, Dane became the first boater to finish the class 4-5+ Green River Narrows Race, the hardest whitewater race in the country, in under four minutes. Below is a POV video of the entire run in one of his signature pink Jackson boats. He ballets and slices through class 5+ Go Left and Die Rapid and the multi-drop class 5+ Gorilla sequence of rapids as if they are riffles. The heart of the Gorilla sequence is the Flume, which is the rapid near the end with the biggest crowd of spectators and rescue ropers on the shore.


I'll post a video of the first open canoe run of Gorilla elsewhere in the whitewater forum.
 
I was impressed with his in air maneuvers, and his landings too.

In that last, POV video, I noticed he slid his upper hand up the shaft every stroke, is this common dbl blade technique?
 
I'll post a video of the first open canoe run of Gorilla elsewhere in the whitewater forum.

What the heck, as long as I'm talking about the Gorilla sequence on the Green River in this thread, here is a supposed history of open canoeing the Green, including how Gorilla got named, from the now defunct cboats.net, which was a site dedicated to whitewater canoeing in closed and open canoes. (No "buttboaters" allowed.)


I say "supposed" because there is a lot of ambiguity about many aspects of canoe history, especially "firsts". Anyway, here is a video of the supposed first open canoe run of Gorilla (Flume) on the Green by David "Psycho" Simpson, another famous hairboating canoeist from the '80's and '90's era, on July 4, 1991, in a Dagger Encore. Members here should feel confident that they all could probably match Psycho's achievement.


The first comment on the YouTube video says that Psycho wore two life jackets and that his thigh straps broke. The history above recites that he eventually paddled the Green over 100 times. It's ambiguous to me who was the first open canoeist to successfully run Gorilla or the entire Green River Narrows.
 
I agree with what Glenn said above. I recommend Jackson's YouTube channel, he has a wonderful attitude and runs amazing white water all over the world.

I do think it's unfortunate he does so many dangerous things, but I get it. It is his job. And nothing guarantees looking past risks like getting paid.

I also encourage everyone rather than judge Jackson to consider your own paddling and risks. Even flat water can be dangerous if you're complacent.
 
The subject has been lost. It was about something NOT on our bucket list.. Where the assumption about judging came in is beyond me. I am happy watching. I am not envious. It is simply not for me.. Of course judgment and skill is required. I ran a waterfall once ; it was 12 feet high and very fun but I had to thwack a rock in order not to hit the wall. That was enough for me.
 
I am not judging anyone. My trip over the western dam from little gabbro was about all the excitement of the type I want, and not repeating it. Be my guest to do Niagara Falls if you want.
 
I expect many topics in this whitewater forum will not be applicable to lake paddling and portaging trips. Many of the topics will likely relate to whitewater day tripping and base camping, perhaps in more difficult whitewater than most folks here now paddle. However, the whitewater skills discussed and displayed are relevant to anyone who paddles any sort of rapids on any kind of trip.

While I'd like to build up this whitewater forum—for one reason because almost all other such whitewater canoe forums have gone defunct, and also because whitewater was once a huge part of my canoeing development and interest—I'd like to keep the site focus on open and decked canoeing in whitewater. That is, OC1 and C1 single sticking.

It may, of course, be inevitable that some interesting or educational videos will include or feature kayaks because kayaks are now so dominant on whitewater runs of all classes. I've never run waterfalls either, much less in a kayak, but it's entertaining to watch skilled paddling beyond one's own limits or on waters not on one's bucket list. As a different example, I have never paddled, nor ever wanted to paddle, and never will paddle in the Arctic or sub-Arctic Barren Grounds, but I love to view pictures/videos and read reports from those who have done so.
 
I didn't know I posted this in the whitewater forum. Was it moved? It was about bucket lists and personal comfort zone, not whitewater, in which I have no interest.
 
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