UCD Canoe Club
General => Kayaking => Topic started by: Una on July 02, 2008, 14:06:47
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7484122.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7484122.stm)
Crazy stuff from Costa Rica.
Úx
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Talk about a dagger ad.
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Couple of things about this one...
- this is from five years ago. It's on the BBC site today because it was in the Sun yesterday. Bizarre.
- when we were in Costa Rica, Simon Barry bought that actual boat. Wow kids!
- on our last day in Costa Rica, we had the option to run that drop or do another river we had had issues with first time around. We had looked long and hard at the drop, and it is well doable, but we went off to run the other (totally amazing) river. I regret nothing.
- while it's a well cool drop, Pat Keller himself reckons it's 83 feet. Either way, it's damn big.
- there's a really big awkward waterfall that you have to run just to get to the lip of the big drop. It's a two-shot, no-exit deal.
- Keller's own account is here: http://runtheshit.blogspot.com/2005/10/haha-i-think-i-went-and-jinxed-myself.html (http://runtheshit.blogspot.com/2005/10/haha-i-think-i-went-and-jinxed-myself.html). It makes for good reading.
Jim.
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Jim,
If you left that first comment at the bottom of his blog, I think you're mistaken - he obviously no problem in that area ;D
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Ha ha. Nope, not me...