Grif, trying to make a joke of your poor actions is low. OK, you didn't like her and she was in over her head, but you need to have enough strength to realize when to do the right thing.
I've been generally really impressed that when kayakers hook up at a put in and boat together, they are a team and have responsibility for each other. People take that committment seriously. Even if one guy is a douch bag, if you make the decision to put in together, you are a team. You work your ass to save them nomatter what. You can't ditch them unless they are on land and you tell them their skills aren't good enough to continue.
This code of committment in kayaking is cool. Ah, but Grif is a rafter.
I just came back from Escalante(retrieving my boat after a swim) and was talking to the ranchers wife about my boat when she starts telling me about this girl the other day!!!!
Yes it did happen and she was definetly border line hypothermic not to mention "very very very very unhappy about he whole ordeal" as the ranchers wife modestly put it... So there is truth to the story...
THIS BY NO MEANS CONDONSE THE PURSUIT OF MORE LAWS!!!!
PS this is not the same one that helped her either.,.
That creek boat picture is spectacular. I love it.
Grif made me laugh. If he's the real Grif it's even funnier and even more f'd up. That said, I think 08 is about to get very scary, and working as a team on the river is going to be mandatory.
I swam last week in Slurry Pipe on Gillman Gorge. I never yelled, never looked for or really wanted a rope, yard saled everything, and swam through a nasty rock infested 60 yards trying to claw my way into shore. Once I wasn't so dizzy I pulled my boat across, paddled to the takeout, drank a booty beer, and laughed about all of it. I was with very good paddlers that would have done anything for me, and they did... they retrieved my boat and paddle, and they provided the beer for my booty, all after making sure I was okay.
Had I sat in the river blowing my whistle and yelling for help while holding onto my gear I would be stuffed under a log right now. I guess this is why my grandma always told me, "The funny thing about common sense is that it isn't common."
You actually expected Griff to show up on time, not be drunk (surely he had at least a 6 of PBR in him!), AND to rescue you in a Class II ripple!?
That right there says a LOT about the choices you make!
Griff is a great guy, albeit a drunk and bitter old ski bum. I would trust him absolutely in an actual emergency situation! I also know he would expect self-sufficiency of everyone present, and that he would not baby ANYONE. Knowing Griff, and from your description of this event, it is easy to assume that you over stated your ability to the rest of your party, leaving them to believe you were at least somewhat capable of self-rescue.
Griff may be grizzled, but he is not, at all, as inconsiderate as you make him out to be.
There are a lot of boaters in Gunny who are great people, willing to help the nubiest of nubes. Find yourself a group of fun girls to boat with, lose the attitude, and get back on it.
And let me know if you have any luck in getting a law passed that makes it illegal to not completely babysit your paddling partners: I may just have to have Milo arrested for sending my wide-eyed nubie ass into "Widow Maker", "Nail in the coffin" and "I'll tell your mom you loved her" rapids, on the Gunny, before I was anywhere close to a roll!
... miss ya' bro!
Homer
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Homerslides - You absolutely must get the real Grif on here to share his story.
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How did the OP.........yakgirl101.........change his/her/it's name to...............Withdrawn1.............this place gets stranger by the day.
Probably when she, in absolute tears that nobody would tell her that she was 100% right, wrote the admins demanding that they change her name to hide her shame. Or, perhaps she did realize her folly and wished to start anew. Either way, since there is no username "yakgirl101" I guess I can now post a most amusing PM she sent me:
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Originally Posted by yakgirl101
YOU are MEAN
What the living FUCK is up with people like you? What makes you think you are better than anyone else out there? People like you turn off REAL people like me who want to enjoy life in the mountains and on the river. You are NOTHING more than bad energy on the river.
The whole thing is starting to come together. Grif is a ski bum. Ski bums associate occaisionally with ski patrollers. Ski patrollers bust I can't ride 55. I cant ride 55 and yak girl are one in the same, and this whole thing is the man trying to hold him/her down!
Legislation is the only answer!!
Ski patrollers can no longer bust him/her on closed slopes and boaters must rescue him/her from the throws of class II death waves.
As a line item on the same bill I would propose that anyone encountering boaters named Canada must give them free quality beer!
Feel free to add your line items and I'll bring it to the house!!
What a shitshow! This has all aspects of a good thread.
*aliases
*posted PMs
*people going to someone's work to get the story
*people dumb enough to believe an alias
*threats
*Summit's ability to make perfect sense and still stir the pot
) and was talking to the ranchers wife about my boat when she starts telling me about this girl the other day!!!!
What makes you think you are better than anyone else out there? People like you turn off REAL people like me who want to enjoy life in the mountains and on the river. You are NOTHING more than bad energy on the river.
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