stoked on one of the best weekends of the summer.
Drove all friday from about 7am up past killington and into burlington by around 4pm. Hit the magic hat brewery for LOTS O SAMPLES and 5 growlers. Then over to UVM for the meatheads show, after a little confusion we found the theatre and I met up with thegreyarea for the show. Bounced after the movie and made it to the forks Maine by 2:30am, then proceeded to get shitfaced till around 4:30. Rise and shine Sat. for our first taste of the river. It was warm out but raining and the river was about 65 degrees or so. We had a blast in shit like this
(stock photo not us)then had an on river beer break. We rafted through the lower section which is more tame and got a look for the kayaking the next day.
I wasn't about to try that nasty shit in the kayak so the second day we shot the upper in rafts and kayaked down the lower half which is mostly class 2 and a good 3. The rafting was awesome once again and the kayaking was cool while it lasted. We got in the boats and paddled out I tried a few rolls and things went well. We shot down most of it with a local in an inflatable kayak showing us around. After the nasty 3 we were in some pretty wilds class 2's and I was paddling hard when....MY PADDLE SNAPPED IN HALF. It was a shit cheap paddle and I never should have brought it, nonetheless there I was rowing like shit with one half a paddle like a mini canoe. I fought my way to the side without incident and climbed back in the raft kayak and all.
We checked out some sweet waterfalls later and then proceeded to get piss drunk again that night. We camped all weekend in the rain, which was pretty awesome actually cause we managed to start fires every night.
We also snuck in some 2am 4x4 action while wicked drunk, it's a miracle we didn't break anything. It was just me and my crazy friend who lives up there so I didn't wanna get stuck. We pounded it pretty hard, so hard we could hardly drink while driving.
All in all it fucking ruled like no other weekend this summer. Some blurry rainy drunken pics to come.
