I'm Smiling!

So I just got off of a 4 day Cataract canyon trip today and to look at the beging it wouldn't seem that it would have been as good as it turned out. 30 boyscouts two old men and the only redeeming factor was another guides family. Yet it turned out to be AWSOME!!!. We ran an S-rig 2 rowboats and 2 paddle boats river was proposed to spike to about 18,000 CFS. We don't run paddle boats above 10,000 CFS. It turned out to only hit 15,000. Anyways, Brie the other paddle boat capitan and I were already nervous about the level add the fact that our paddlers where 14 year old boyscouts and well I get the nervous pees Bries gets the nervous poos. Well, It turned out that they were AWSOME paddlers. Now in my head this is what was going on. "Im in a paddle boat with 2 row boats and an S-rig for saftey. Everyone knows the lines and I have boyscouts as passengers. I AM GOING HUGE!" I got to hit EVERYTHING. The cheering section in "Hell to Pay" the hole in "Been Hurt" and the one that I am most excited about, in big drop three is a hole on the right side that we try our darndest to pull away from when all of the water pushes right at it named "Frogs" it has a seem that kicks up a huge rooster tail that flips the vast majority of the boats that challenge it. My mighty crew and I took on this monster in a paddle boat that has a higher chance of flipping. We hit just to the right of this seem. From my vantage point as paddle capitan at the back of the boat I watched as this wave curled laterally over the top of my boat and we where heading into the black abyss of frogs. When this wave came down on us it did one of those time warp things where two different prespectives have different concept of time. To my boat it was a split second to Zo who was running saftey on the S-rig it was about 5 seconds that we where completely gone with no sign of wether we flipped or not. On that 5th second we surged forth victorious with all paddlers and paddles still in the boat. We took "Frogs" head on and won. It was easily one of the biggest hits of my life. Since I was 2 and took my first rafting trips and all of the kayaking I do. IT WAS HUGE!!!!!! I slept well that night.