Playboating is Lame

Well after getting pretty skunked on Saturday in Ithaca (even though we did get in a little first D of a small slide near Andy's Parents house), I headed back down to meet up with Uncle James and PP Twist to surf Inner City.  I got up at about 8 this morning and was looking at the weather outside as well as the levels and was pretty pumped.  It was about 60 degrees, and the Black was already around 12000 cfs, and on the rise.  I was about half way to our destination, when the wind really picked up.  Nearly being blown off the road about a dozen times, by the time I reached the river, the wind was just whipping.  The wave was pretty good, but it was damn cold.  It took about 10 rides for me to realize what an ass I was making of myself.  Wind gusts of about 60 mph, water temps right around freezing, and I was boating like crap.  In traditional fashion, I started bitching about conditions, when it occurred to me, playboating is pretty lame.  Cramming my fat ass into a tiny little boat, in the freezing cold, to try and throw some lame tricks just isn't doing it for me anymore.  Don't get me wrong, the worst of conditions will not detour me from creeking (please note the 1st annual Teeters Creek GS last Feburary).  I really enjoy that laid back, summer runs down the Black and then heading back up to 3 wave to screw around for the afternoon, but this is too much like work.

In a few months, you guys can make me eat my words when I am really jonesing to just get in anything that floats, and I am calling Uncle Jim to see if his bath tub will hold an Astro 54.  I guess I really just would have rather been creeking.  It didn't help that we got home and everything was off the hook.  If Uncle Jim is any kind of man, he will take a sick day tomorrow and we can go run something.  It looks like the Moose will be about 9ft.  That should be enough to remove the ice.

On a more positive note, Uncle Jim (is gay according to Wendy), but he gave me a very good idea today.  Starting January 1, 2009 I am going to try to post daily (the next available time for the days I have missed, and so on) as to what I did that day.  I probably wont amount to much, but it should be interesting.  Obviously I want to give people something worth while to read (by now you are thinking "No f*$!ing way", but I will try).

Cheers for now my loyal subjects,

LaFlair