Respect the Water

No progress has been made on the living room because there is too much fun going on in the Living Room of Life, also known as the out of doors.

I took advantage of the nice weather today and put my White Water Canoe in the Spokane River after three years in dry dock. It was fabulous!

Currently, the river is running at 13,200 C.F.S., which is not really big but it's enough to make the Spokane Falls look pretty spectacular. It's big enough to make a run from Harvard Road to Mirabeau Point last just over an hour.

The stretch from Harvard to Barker Road is pretty tame, which allowed me the opportunity to get familiar with my boat again. The canoe is 12 feet long and all rocker. You cannot really propel it forward, you just spin it. It has air bags front and back...oops...forward and aft, and a saddle in the middle that I kneel over. I can put straps over my legs to secure myself in the canoe and actually become one with the canoe.

It's not a particularly comfortable position to stay in for any length of time. I got the Barker in about 20 minutes and stopped to return the circulation to my feet and legs.

From Barker to Sullivan Road is where the fun is. It's a great stretch of rapids almost the whole way. I had to stop again after the first stretch of rapids and almost fell over as I got out of the boat. My legs where totally numb from kneeling all that time. I'm going to have to work on some stretching exercises to make myself more comfy.

I'm going to do it again next week and hopefully will be able to take some pictures.