Mill Creek

Last Sunday after I worked all day Saturday while it poured out, we got up to Lowville to hit up Mill Creek.  It was scheduled to be Uncle Jim's Moose Trip but with the level hovering at around 8.5 ft, we had to look for other options.  Mill was pretty low, but still really fun.  Jim, Drew, Adiran and I all agreed that we need to get up there with more water.  Still to get on a creek that is typically run off only in the middle of May was pretty sweet.  To top it all off, I smoked the line in the rapid under the 12 bridge.  I have to say that line is one of my favorite little rapids in that area.  You start by punching a juicy little hole at the top with just the right amount of speed as to not to get into the far wall, but enough to get through it without being pushed all the way right by the hole.  Quickly, you set up for a small little slot, that you take just a bit of left angle through and then take a few quick strokes and smash a boof stroke just off the left wall.  If you hit the boof just right, you will be out onto the pillow enough as to not land in the 2" of water on the slab rock at the bottom.  Then just hold on through the slide at the bottom, and catch an eddy.  It's awesome.

Outside of that I haven't really been doing a whole hell of a lot besides working.  I am right in the middle of finishing one project while getting another one started.  I spent the entire day yesterday just running around the site cleaning up after lazy ass contractors, and making sure that the place was presentable for the first day on Tuesday.  That will be interesting.  I have 14 bankers showing up expecting to be able to do banking stuff essentially in an active construction site......sweet.

I found out last week that my next job will be in Fairport (just outside of Rochester, NY).  One one hand it sucks because now I will be a "Rochester Boater", and will be forced to join the few sorry souls that drive at least 3 hours to get on anything of any quality.  The flip side is that I should get really good at doing stupid playboating shit as the lock is like 10 minutes away.  And I will be about 4 hours closer to WV......

Keeping it real in the 315

LaFlair