Buffalo River, Ponca to Kyles Landing (March 2008)

 
So on Friday Brent convinced me it was going to be a great day to float.  Now I had to convince someone else to go along.  It was the day before Easter and a lot of people were headed out of town, including my floating buddy Greg.  BUT, Jennifer wasn't AND she had a canoe, so we wouldn't have to waste time and money getting one from an outfitter.  Surprisingly she didn't need much convincing!

Both of us had some experience in a canoe, but we weren't rookies by any means.  Our adrenaline was pumping all day long.  We'd follow Brent's line through a run and things were going great until we hit this rapid.  The wave train got our boat bouncing and splashed a significant amount of water in.  That started us rocking and rolled us right over into the cold, rushing water.

 
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