Random weekend photos

Another weekend of camping and boating has come and gone. A rainy Saturday and bluebird Sunday were my companions, along with campfire friendships and a host of cheap & cold cerveza's. Boaters were, Luke-red Nomad, Warren-yellow Habitat, Sward-blue Jefe.

This and That

This weekend was a great intro to Spring for New Mexico. Had fun play boating, dirt biking, low water creeking and lots of tall tales by the campfire with good friends. Gotta love the start of a new season.

The putin for the Racecourse

enjoying the hot sun at Sleeping Beauty wave.

Paul Terry looping his C-1

Paul nailed by a "very sudden" great white shark attack

Gus Ghuniem surfin

More Gus



View of the Lower Box, taken during my after river running dirk bike session

lovin NM

(Grayson Schaffer)

getting ready for the Embudo


Ice banks



entrance to the first box, notice the graffiti on the river right wall. Nothing is sacred anymore

Cold water

10am first canyon shadows

Grayson top drop of Cheesegrater

Grayson on the lower cheese

This is the new rockfall on the lower canyon, the shot does not do it justice. It is worse than it looks. Be heads up when running the lower canyon. It will be interesting to see what happens at high flows.

G-man running the laed into the slot.

Low water Slot



Frenchy on steroids. He cracked his boat on the Embudo and air was filling up his drytop from the crack in the hull.

da crack

Hike out of the first canyon due to cracked boat.

Brawts and cheese and beer and a campfire with friends is all ya need after a day of h2o. Thanks to Frenchy and Badkins for coming south and keeping me company. Adios, Atom...

Best breakfast burritos. Pilar Yacht club, 1000 miles from the ocean. Rico makes a mean burrito.

Spring

Spring is in the air. On Saturday march 10th, I met seven Colorado boaters for a run on the Upper Box in New Mexico. It was flowing around 500 cfs and it felt like Spring, the wind was blowing and we were all coming off the couch. Time to shake the rust. It was a great warm up run for start of the season. I took a few shots for ya all. Sorry about the haphazard quality but all I had was my point and shoot and it was cold.
The crew was Evan, Mike, Pete, Leigf?, Trevor, Junior, Randy and myself.

Driving from my casa to the putin

COLD

Gonna try out the new Mega Rocker

Rocks at Hell Hole

Scouting Hell Hole

Pete getting the boof on

In the eddy

Leigf? Hell Hole

Pleasure Plunge

Pleasure Plunge

Looking at Big Arsenic

Evan running the hero line, nasty sieves river right if ya mess up

The run out

Dotcom all happy

Randy about to go near the sieves

Got the last chance pull out eddy

Dry land

Leigf running the left side of Big A

Buried

Photo taken after having a heart attack during the hike out

It was a awesome day. I will post a review of the Mega Rocker soon.
PS, the hike out is way better than the paddle out.
Adios, Atom...