With the water from the heavy rain receding, it's time for yours truly to go paddling in my red WTF?!-boat (a Prijon Forte, great riverrunner).
There was still quite some more water than on sunday and admittedly, the 5 km stretch was tiring due to the constant whitewater and rocks to maneuver. I survived :) Some of my fellow-paddlers really wanted to know it and hammered their boats through all holes and big waves they could get. Everybody was having lots of fun.
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Mittwoch, 6. August 2014
Montag, 4. August 2014
Monday, august 4th: hiking
Arriving back at the car, I treated myself to a well-deserved Salzatal- waffle. See picture :-)
Sunday, august 3rd
After sleeping for13 hours, We paddled some 13km from above the campground down to exit Fachwerk in our inflatable Sevylor. Was lots of fun! Great landscape.
The evening hit us with a massive downpour and so we hit the sack around 10pm.
The evening hit us with a massive downpour and so we hit the sack around 10pm.
Sonntag, 3. August 2014
Arrived
We started late Friday, 10:30pm and given the prognosis for that weekend,the ride was ok except for a few accidents.
Unfortunately, when we left the autonahn, we meandered a bit around with our GPS devices dying on us.
After 13 hours we arrived and set up the tents.
First surprise: Ravier is missing his wallet. After intensive search - he insisted it had been with him AFTER we went restocking in Bad Hall - we called the supermarket. Surprise: it is there. Great relief!
There is a play-spot right at the campsite and some where already paddling that day. We were too tired. Managed to carry through the day and keeled over at 7pm.
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Unfortunately, when we left the autonahn, we meandered a bit around with our GPS devices dying on us.
After 13 hours we arrived and set up the tents.
First surprise: Ravier is missing his wallet. After intensive search - he insisted it had been with him AFTER we went restocking in Bad Hall - we called the supermarket. Surprise: it is there. Great relief!
There is a play-spot right at the campsite and some where already paddling that day. We were too tired. Managed to carry through the day and keeled over at 7pm.
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Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014
The woes of being sloppy
Today's the day on which we plan to load all boats onto the trailer.
To do so, you need lots of straps to secure them - that is, if you wish to move the trailer with the boats w/o losing them immediately.
Unsually all clubs have loads of straps.
So does ours.
Well...
most of the time.
A few weeks ago, we began to miss the box that was home to the huge ravel of straps - including the straps themselves.
They never came back. Probably they moved to another club where they hoped to feel more valued?
Looks like we have been too laid-back about this issue. I had not realized one could actually be TOO LAID BACK!
But
We may have crossed the line between laid-backness and sloppiness. Dang!
To make the long story short, we will not be able to load the boats for our Whitewater-trip unless we can activate enough members to come and offer their own straps.
Local shops failed to provide us with much-needed equipment (3 hardware stores, 2 outdoor-stores and a sports-supermarket - big fail. 3 straps at best available)
We may have to postpone the work until Friday and start an expedition first that will provide us with enough material to tie down some 22 boats...
Only time will tell
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Captain Ducky, bane of the rivers, has his own strap, but refuses to share :(
To do so, you need lots of straps to secure them - that is, if you wish to move the trailer with the boats w/o losing them immediately.
Unsually all clubs have loads of straps.
So does ours.
Well...
most of the time.
A few weeks ago, we began to miss the box that was home to the huge ravel of straps - including the straps themselves.
They never came back. Probably they moved to another club where they hoped to feel more valued?
Looks like we have been too laid-back about this issue. I had not realized one could actually be TOO LAID BACK!
But
We may have crossed the line between laid-backness and sloppiness. Dang!
To make the long story short, we will not be able to load the boats for our Whitewater-trip unless we can activate enough members to come and offer their own straps.
Local shops failed to provide us with much-needed equipment (3 hardware stores, 2 outdoor-stores and a sports-supermarket - big fail. 3 straps at best available)
We may have to postpone the work until Friday and start an expedition first that will provide us with enough material to tie down some 22 boats...
Only time will tell
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Sonntag, 27. Juli 2014
Packing for Whitewater :)
Next weekend will see us heading for Austria, the small village of Wildalpen where our club will spend a week fully dedicated to (almost) nothing but whitewater kayaking.
22 active paddlers, 31 persons altogether - we won't be the smallest group around.
This weekend I set up the RV, added some boxes for more structured storage and switched on the fridge. Wednesday the boats will be loaded and Friday night will see us on the road.
The RV will be jam-packed as we are taking 3 paddlers with us. Meaning 3 Tents and luggage and neoprene inside the good ol' RV. On the upside, there will be 3 drivers so we can leave late and arrive in the morning to do some shopping and then settle in on the campground before 10 am. (at least, that's the plan).
Tomorrow we'll be shopping for food, deep-freeze some meats because last year that made everything so much easier. For even more streamlined packing, this time the meat will be frozen in rectangular boxes, to the small freezing-compartment in the RV can be put to optimized use :) This is important because Peter insists on taking along some ice-cream as well.
As an aside:
Last night somebody accidentally switched off the freezer/fridge when closing it and nobody noticed until... well, until the watery-ice had melted and dripped into the fridge-part, overflowed, flooded the living-area of the RV (as much as 1 l of liquid can flood an RV...) and EVERYTHING was sticky and in need of a thorough wiping.
Guess, who did that?
Right.
I hated it.
If that should ever happen again, ice-cream will be officially banned for life.
22 active paddlers, 31 persons altogether - we won't be the smallest group around.
This weekend I set up the RV, added some boxes for more structured storage and switched on the fridge. Wednesday the boats will be loaded and Friday night will see us on the road.
The RV will be jam-packed as we are taking 3 paddlers with us. Meaning 3 Tents and luggage and neoprene inside the good ol' RV. On the upside, there will be 3 drivers so we can leave late and arrive in the morning to do some shopping and then settle in on the campground before 10 am. (at least, that's the plan).
Tomorrow we'll be shopping for food, deep-freeze some meats because last year that made everything so much easier. For even more streamlined packing, this time the meat will be frozen in rectangular boxes, to the small freezing-compartment in the RV can be put to optimized use :) This is important because Peter insists on taking along some ice-cream as well.
As an aside:
Last night somebody accidentally switched off the freezer/fridge when closing it and nobody noticed until... well, until the watery-ice had melted and dripped into the fridge-part, overflowed, flooded the living-area of the RV (as much as 1 l of liquid can flood an RV...) and EVERYTHING was sticky and in need of a thorough wiping.
Guess, who did that?
Right.
I hated it.
If that should ever happen again, ice-cream will be officially banned for life.
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