Fellow paddlers, I am including the links to all of the mentioned videos below. Paddling a canoe through the Grand Canyon is a pretty incredible feat. A big Congrats to Bonnie again. She also mentioned a couple other videos, as well as the ones I found to compare. Hers is a 40 second clip. The very last video is quite interesting, with a jet Kayak. I watch Top Gear on cable, and they do some very interesting things. This one was a bit off the wall, but the paddler is a 9 times Whitewater Freestyle Champion, so it does lend some credibility to the clip. "Car shooting" was also pretty funny. Mark Scott wrote: > > Since Bonnie won't brag about it I'll do it for her. Bonnie > (and Don from Idaho) ran the Grand Canyon in their solo canoes. > Bonnie swam several times in the first half of the trip but none > in the second half, including Crystal and Lava Falls.There is a > video of her running Lava on YouTube.com. The search words canoe, > Grand Canyon or whitewater will get you there. > > Yeeha!! > > Scott mark wrote: > Pretty incredible!!! > > For a contrast, watch "Canoeing Hell's Half Mile" [long 9 minutes] > and they have a bunch of swimmers, and the water is nowhere near as > rough as Lava Falls. "Maury Devils Kitchen" is pretty good for > kayakers. > > The Moron of the Week would be the canoeist: > "Joseph Runs Devil's Jump" with no flotation!! > > WAY TO GO BONNIE!!!!!!!!!!!! > > mark Bonnie wrote: > > Mark, > > Thanks for the Congrats! I was so excited to have made that run.... > it was the only run that someone videotaped and I made it! I also > ran successfully in Crystal, Hermit, Upset, Dubendorff to name a > few. > > I rode the raft on Granite and Horn. I swam Sockdolager and Hance > to name a few. My swims were all at the top before I figured out > How to do it! [snip-aroni the Colorado Treat] > Scott and Connie were over for dinner last week.....and I showed > them my video and the one in Hell's Half Mile.....maybe you could > send the link out for the Hell's Half Mile video? The other > quick link to a cool video is called Flip in Hermit....tags are > Grand Canyon and White Water... it shows a raft flipping in an > instant. > > Good to hear from you. > > Bonnie Bonnie [Canoe in Lava Falls in the Grand Canyon]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CLOipoP8qw Raft Flip in Hermit Rapid, Grand Canyon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUee-80n3xY Canoeing Hell's Half Mile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S777wGcAKII Maury Devils Kitchen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPl8qH3z0Eo Joseph Runs Devil's Jump http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Og_yVhdwA Sitting In A Hole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GioUlPHh8Ww Top Gear - Jet Kayak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToUK6uEK6PI *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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