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Scott_H
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One that stuck with me from the late, great William Nealy:
"Believe it or not, sometime or another all kayakers experience fear…unless they're very very stupid. Fear is a perfectly natural and normal response to what is perceived to be a physical threat to life and/or limb. Recognizing the whitewater environment to be ultimately hostile to human life, it's obvious we have to learn to control fear a good bit of the time. "Good" fear makes you think…it gives you the courage to portage or the concentration to run a rapid you thought you couldn't. "Bad" fear causes panic elevated pulse, irrational behavior (such as going for when you know you shouldn't, etc.) A person experiencing a heavy dose of bad fear goes into preemptive shock (aka "going to sleep" "zombied out", etc.), characterized by numbness, tunnel vision, inability to talk or paddle skillfully, etc. Preemptive shock is your brain's way of telling your body "run this if you like but I'm gonna hide in the basement!" If you think you're out of control and you maybe shouldn't try this drop, you're probably right. Learn to recognize immobilizing fear and channel it….it means it's time to carry."
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
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franzhorner
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Dave Becker after cat boating the SF Skokomish:
"I don't know if I like that run, but I'll probably do it again when the memory fades"
Fish trying to convince me a wine cork stuck in our blown floor relief valve was good to go for an R2 run on the Green Truss:
'It will be fine...we won't run Big Brother this time'
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MORE RAIN PLEASE
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SOPBOATER
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Posted: 31 May 2013 at 5:51pm |
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use the force.
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kurle
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Posted: 31 May 2013 at 5:59pm |
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If I die, tell every girl down there...separately...that I love them the most.
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Tobin
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Posted: 31 May 2013 at 10:14pm |
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"I think I am still drunk" - Said by thousands
Fish "It is all class II from here"
If he says this to you immediately hit a bank and scout
Edited by Tobin - 31 May 2013 at 10:19pm
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Sure?
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Kyle K
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From Floyd Stevens, an old GC guide, way back in the bucket boat days: "When I tell you to bail, all I want to see is assholes and elbows!"
Regarding GC raft guides (non-motorized): "There are only two kinds of guides down here: Those that have flipped and those that are going to."
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"I used to be somebody, now I'm somebody else." Bad Blake
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FLUID
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Posted: 01 Jun 2013 at 11:14pm |
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After a close call..... "Well ? as long as no ones dead or pregnant.... we're good" !!
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jP
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Awesome thread you started here, Oscar!
Hard to single out any, they are all too funny
Naturally my favorites would have to be the Fish-isms PPeeps cited. Wine cork! I crack up every time I hear that one.
For once I'm at a loss to come up with any at the moment, but I'm sure I got a few
I guess the only thing that leaps to mind is what Packy Chronan said before he got pinned on one of our Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone trips:
I said, "those guys are getting out to scout" (on R. Right) "I'm going to join them"
Packy replied, "Well, it's been going good so far, so I'm just gonna run it" (blind class V drop)
Man, I still to this day have never seen a boat and person wedged so painfully and impossibly in a seive, bow to the sky, stern stuffed into a tear drop shaped hole in the rock(s). Houdini couldn't have squeezed down through there.
Packy disappeared down the hole while his boat was still stuffed vertically, cockpit deep. He re emerged about 50' downstream. Now they call that drop "Packy's Crack", but I was there and I was calling it "Packy Packed"
Anyway he was and probably still is a great athlete, but I never saw his logic in "Well, it's been going good so far, so I'm just gonna run it" (blind class V drop) just because mother nature happened to lay out a few miles of boat scoutable water just upstream. A blind horizon is a blind horizon, and you may not even get to run it once. Packy didn't. I'm just glad I didn't have to return to tell Mellisa he didn't make it out of there.
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BrianP
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"Bad things only happen to other people" - Dale
"I'll probably be ok, but you..." - Dale
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bigboof
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Posted: 02 Jun 2013 at 6:54am |
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"Dude.... We are NOT smoking any more weed until we get horse masks!"
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AdamG
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Posted: 02 Jun 2013 at 8:14pm |
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"Never leave a river that is running to go to a river that might be running"
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