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3 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

Thought this video would be a good lead in to a new topic. Fantastic drone footage.

 

Wow that’s some speed

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5 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

I would say this qualifies as extreme.

 

One slip at the wrong time and you are proper toast with those trees on some of the fast stretches.

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Pretty amazing, paragliding up to ski down 5k+m mountains. That's 19k ft. And they did it without supplemental O2. Also amazing is the cinematography that documented their adventure.

At 22:58 mark you can see the effects of low O2 levels and how it leads to altitude sickness. Luckily the guy in this video who did a 7,266m summit, alone, made it safely back.

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Pretty impressive, especially when you keep in mind they're moving at about 120 mph. Like how they breakaway from the formation at the end.

Edited to add: The formation from a different perspective.

 

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I think this qualifies as extreme.

Edited to add: Just before the very top I noticed a very flat section of the tower with no apparent hand holds. This vid is queued to start at that point and how he used a temporary rope ladder to scale that portion.

 

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Guy needed to straighten out his boat a little more...that's a big honking wave (rock).

Good job getting the boat flipped back over. Rigged to flip. 😉

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4 hours ago, lazarus said:

Guy needed to straighten out his boat a little more...that's a big honking wave (rock).

Good job getting the boat flipped back over. Rigged to flip. 😉

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That brings back some good memories of my boating days. Then again the chronic pain in my shoulder from a partial dislocation suffered during a kayak roll serves as constant reminder of my boating days as well.

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1 minute ago, forcebwithu said:

That brings back some good memories of my boating days. Then again the chronic pain in my shoulder from a partial dislocation suffered during a kayak roll serves as constant reminder of my boating days as well.

Yeah...on my one Colorado River trip through the Grand Canyon (2000) I had a clean run through Horn. The guy behind me in our group went too far right and hit the big hole (where the guy flipped in the vdo). It was like he hit a wall...but fortunately the 18ft. SOTAR blasted through.

I had to stop rowing after that trip as my left shoulder was shot...ended up with a full joint replacement (once the ACA kicked in and I could get health insurance).

I have a bunch of photos on film...only had a few digitized.

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There I was...running Lava Falls rapid...

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25 minutes ago, lazarus said:

Yeah...on my one Colorado River trip through the Grand Canyon (2000) I had a clean run through Horn. The guy behind me in our group went too far right and hit the big hole (where the guy flipped in the vdo). It was like he hit a wall...but fortunately the 18ft. SOTAR blasted through.

I had to stop rowing after that trip as my left shoulder was shot...ended up with a full joint replacement (once the ACA kicked in and I could get health insurance).

I have a bunch of photos on film...only had a few digitized.

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There I was...running Lava Falls rapid...

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Somewhere in storage at my son's house are a bunch of super 8 reels from my boating days. One captures me running Baby Falls on the Talico in TN. One of my all time favorite rivers to run.

Pic of Baby Falls courtesy of Google search.
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This pic is the only still shot I have of me. Red River, WI, 1983. The kayak is one I built, which used to be what most of us did back then. That was until decent plastic boats came on the market and patching one's boat after a weekend of scrapping over rocks became a thing of the past.
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