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Fun Stuff 2025 Part 2
Blogger is not letting me update my blog so I'm starting a part 2.
I'd like to find a better hosting platform but a minimal search this morning didn't come up with much.
Anyway:
April 12 Upper/Lower Mulberry. In the Jackson Antix 2.0. With Peggy, Jie, Kevin S., and Westin. Level around 2.1. Kind of too low for the Upper but we were happy to get on it at least once this season.
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CeCe is 7 and is part fish! |
June 27 - July 3 Week of Rivers 2025 WOR CCC. In the Jackson Mixmaster 7.5 and the Antix 2.0 m. Great time and reasonably dry weather too.
Saturday - Tuckaseegee in the Mixmaster
Sunday - Nantahala short trip Ferebee to Surfers with Mona
Monday - Nantahala Ferebee thru the falls. I walked the falls with my swimmer's ear still going on
Tuesday - Tuckaseegee, memorial trip honoring Richard Hopley aka OC1- Kanubi
Wednesday - Nantahala Ferebee thru the falls. I had a great line at the falls.
July 13 - 100th Dive. At Blue Water Park. With Bethany. She made a sign on her dive slate and took some pics. So stoked to have gotten my 100th dive!
July 19 Hiwassee. In the Jackson Antix 2.0m. With Helen, Andy, and Peggy. It was raining buckets on the drive up and Helen called and asked if we could just day drink instead. (she was kidding). The day turned out really nice, not rainy just cloudy so the air temps were nice not super hot.
July 20 Ocoee. Rails to Go-Forth. In the Jackson Antix 2.0m. With Mary M, Helen, Andy, Trey aka Roscoe P. Wavetrain. After a long hiatus I returned to the Ocoee to find it exactly how I remembered - the familiar lines, the great water temps, the fun rapids. I had two combat rolls, one below Double Trouble and one in the runout of Flipper. Mary and I took out at Go-Forth and had lunch. I hadn't seen Mary in ages and she's one of my best friends so it was great to catch up with her.
Helen took a photo of my boof at Double Suck:
...and my smile after landing the boof:
July 26 Diving at Blue Water Park. With Helen, Andy, and Bethany. We saw an interesting person at the airplane.
I had to stay local this past weekend for a family dinner.
kayaker pic
May 30, 2025
Jackson Flow review
May 3, 2025
Fun Stuff 2025 part 1
Jan 1 2025 BCC Feast on the Beach. At the Birmingham Canoe Club property/Mulberry Fork takeout. Level 1 ft, my favorite. In the Jackson Antix 2.0m, also my favorite. It was sunny, perhaps 60 as the high, and many people enjoyed the float and the feast after.
Photos here: https://dangerjudy.smugmug.com/Other/PADDLING/Feast-on-the-Beach-2025
Jan 2 Mulberry. Level approx 8 inches on the old bridge. In the Jackson Antix 2.0m. With Tammy P., Andy L., Jason L. Shahn W. tried to join us but he had left his helmet at home. It happens to us all - have to Count Five. Sunny, mid-50's, Training Wheels wave was great, Lunchstop was flatter than at 1 ft so a bit harder to get onto, but was great to surf. 5-0 was shallow and steep.
What does Count Five mean? It means count the five things you must have in order to whitewater kayak: your paddle, your boat, your spray-skirt, your pfd, and your helmet.
Jan 16-20 GCA Florida trip. In the Dagger Axis 10.5. Wonderful trip to paddle the springs of Florida with the Georgia Canoe Association. Now I want a Stratos 14.5s. I had a hard time keeping up with the long boats!
Google maps will tell you it's 7.5-8 hours drive to Chassahowitzka Hotel where we stayed. It's more like 9.5-10 hours. I went through Atlanta, it adds 100 miles but is the same amount of time and mostly interstate instead of little country roads.
Friday 17th - Halls-Homosassa Rivers
Saturday 18th - Pithlachascotee (Cotee) River
Sunday 19th - Withlacoochee River from the Inglis Bypass to Bird Creek Beach
Monday 20th - Chassahowitzka River then drove home. Tons of Manatees!
Photos here: https://dangerjudy.smugmug.com/Other/PADDLING/GCA-Florida-2025
Feb 1-7 Ski Steamboat Colorado. Beautiful trip including a visit to Strawberry Springs. I stayed with my friend Betsy. With Margaret W., Eva V., Trey C. and David MC.
Photos here: https://dangerjudy.smugmug.com/Other/Other-1/Steamboat-2025
Feb 15 Locust Fork. In the Jackson Antix 2.0 medium. Level 3.75. Justin C. and I were going to do Calvert Prong but it had dropped out.
Feb 16 Mill/Murphy creek and Calvert Prong. In the Pyranha Scorch medium. Mill/Murphy was minimum and manky. Calvert was high and the weather was down to 41F. I had a crappy swim on Cyclops.
March 1-2 Mulberry Fork Races. I volunteer gate judged on Saturday and went by Sunday to take photos. Level was low but they added the Duck release Saturday so it was higher than minimum.
March 15-21 Roatan Diving. With Andrea and Keith, Larry and Leslie. Wonderful trip. I did 9 dives, including a night dive that featured the String of Pearls. Tuesday was too windy to dive so I visited Carambola Gardens. Not sure why I left Roatan to return home. Photos here: https://dangerjudy.smugmug.com/Other/SCUBA-DIVING/Roatan-March-2025.
March 15-23 Mulberry. In the Jackson Antix 2.0m. Level around 1.17. Great surfing with lots of friends. Unfortunately I got something in my eye (probably sunblock) and it was windy so I was dealing with that. Mexican at Casa Fiesta afterwards.
March 29 Mulberry. In the Jackson Antix 2.0m. Level around 1.17 again. Perfect surfing levels at Training Wheels, Lunchstop, and Hawaii 5-0. The Antix 2.0 has turned out to be the best boat for my needs that I've ever owned. With Peggy, Andy, Joe, and open boaters John and Bobby.
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Me surfing the Antix 2.0 at Hawaii 5-0 wave. |
April 5 Locust Fork Races. In the Jackson Antix 2.0. For the first time in many years I decided to race. As in the past I was very slow but had fun. Great time visiting with friends and playing guitar with Shannon G on violin. I chose not to camp due to the forecast. Unfortunately the weather overnight meant Sunday was cancelled. The river went from 2 ft. range to 13 ft. range very quickly Sunday morning!