The Animas flooded its banks today,
and with the high water I went to Smelter Rapids, the town’s best white water.
It was big water today, one of the highest flow days of the year. There was one kayaker out there, and maybe twenty people watching.
Can you see the joy?
The balancing of immense forces? This guy is likely Olympic caliber–there are a lot of world champion and Olympic kayakers living here
and I assumed everyone was there to watch his perfect form. Instead,
the main attraction was a group of four commercial rafts due at 2:15. Two rafts made it through intact, one raft lost and recovered a passenger, one raft flipped…
and it was really entertaining.
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