I've been a bit disappointed to see that the state of Indiana is really flat... so no mountains and no rivers...
Then, in my luggage I didn't bring any of my kayaking gear...
It was mistake!
At the Uni, I met a kind of crazy guy... Mark
He started kayaking one year ago and since he paddle almost every WE...
We talked about kayaking for hours... it was great! Then he proposed me to go with him and his kayaking club to run the Ocoee!
I was like crazy! hahaha
The Ocoee river is very famous!
This river was used for the kayaking competition during the Olympic game of Atlanta in 1996!
Mark managed to find me all the gears I needed! And very good stuff! better than my own equipment! (Carbon paddle, crazy Dry top, very goog helmet, A playboat Jackson Fun 2... well everything!)
So last week, we left indianapolis friday afternoon to go in Tennessee
indianapolis (Indiana) -> Cincinnati (Ohio) -> then we drive through Kentucky to Knoxville (Tennessee) -> Ocoee River
with his big truck...(18 Liters / 100 km!)... 8 hours driving...
After that... It was like an earthly paradise!
I met around 20 american kayaker..
We paddled saturday from 10:30 to 5:30.... the water was great and not too cold, sunny weather, some pretty big rapids, Fun waves to surf, rocks to boof, this river is really nice! not so many people on the river... I had to do some roles...
A geant camp fire to cook some sausages for saturday night... many beers too ;-)
And we've done to same in sunday.... Oh my God! that was great!!!
I don't have so many pictures to show, cuz my camera didn't want to work well, so I am gonna try to get some pictures from other kayaker and blog them later....
that will be the part 2!
see you
take care!
4 comments:
Le grand barbu sur la photo me fait bien rire... Je trouve que c'est un bon mix entre Poupou et Tomlefou! haha. Avant de se mettre au kayak, ce jeune fou était un spéléologue acharné... (il y a environ 3000 trous dans l'Indiana et 8000 dans le Tennessee... je vous attends les mecs!)... il a le 4x4 et la barbe que poupou rêverait d'avoir et il est aussi fou que Tom...
Bon anniversaire Corentin
Bon courage
gros bisous
on dirait que Mark gagne à être connu! j'ose pas imaginer que : Poupou + TomleFou = Mark!!
est-ce bien prudent de le fréquenter?? ;-))
bisous-bisous
and happy birthday to you!
Delph'
Salut toi!!
Tom est plus beau!
Je te souhaite un tres bon anni Co!! J'espere que tu fetes ca ac des gros gateaux américains plein de sucre...Je leve une coupe de Champagne à ta santé (ca tu ne dois pas en avoir!)
Gros bisous!
Cé
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