Kayaking Big Bend Dam, Lake Oroville, CA

[eugenestoner2]

can i make this with my seakayak?

[7abdi]

my mom wants to do that and me to COOL MAN

[7abdi]

my mom wants to do that me to thats COOL MAN

[coddbro]

haha fun!!!

[MrBigt68]

that's crazy!!!!!!!!!

[garyripper]

Sweet video! What song is that? It rocks and strangely fits the video

[gameexpert09]

it looks possibly like a hole that wont keep you, ever tried going down without a boat! haah

[gameexpert09]

For a second looking at it i thought it would be dangerous but i saw at the shoot at the end its not too bad, looks like fun, too bad i raft guide and can't kayak haha. Well done!

[ilonakarow]

first time I ever went over was in a raft in 1991, you can see a raft do it on one of my other youtube videos "Scott & Ilona do Big Bend Dam" but the water level was very low that day.

[jakematheny]

what a pefectu chute.

[Carvemasta]

is that Kevin Bailey?

[parkoanime]

That lookss amazing is it very hard?

[ilonakarow]

any class 3 kayaker can do the dam drop, there are some class iv rapids with sticky holes on the run below

[ntilley88]

Looks like a nice safe drop to practice for doing the bigger stuff.

Nice vid. Shame about the copyright crap on the music.

[darkside485]

Did you try to surf the wave at the end of the dam, or wasn't it a good wave? You can't really see it on the vid.

Nice video btw ^^

[ilonakarow]

We've tried, very hard to catch, no luck yet

[bama4802]

who sings the song on this video?

[ilonakarow]

artist is jody sticker "down south party mix" on label "Mardi Gras Records"

It was one the the copyright free choices on the youtube audio swap. When I first made the video I used 3 Dog Night music "Mamma told Me Not To Come" But BMG Music decided I was violating their copyrights and deleted my video so I did the youtube audio swap thing.

[xaviar37]

looks like fun!!!!!!!

[fullbartender]

Ah.. That looks SOO fun! =P 

Kayak ftw! =D

[demonofthenorth1324]

wtf kind of song

[ilonakarow]

BMG music deleted this video because they owned the copywright to 3DogNight' "Mama Told Me Not To Come" so I had to substitute the audio with one on YuTube's noncopywrited music selections and they are all crap but I wanted to keep the video posted, friends kept asking me where the video was

[bmcauley3]

that's nothing.

[Pokazzz]

WOOOW its so cool ^^ With annything seafty Thing i making that ² :) ! VERRY NICE SPOT !

[munkeey1123]

haha that wave at the bottom is huge lol... the drops only class 2? cus husum is class 4 and this looks harder than that

[whooperpooper86]

that looks like fun!!!!!!!!!

[richodion]

wot grade is that drop?

[ilonakarow]

the drop is class II with class IV nerves required. You never submerge because it slopes out at the bottom and the huge wave doesn't mess with you. It's just a hoot!

[mandyNdave]

If you swam it, would it just thrash you? Because if you can swim it without problems than it's a II. But if you can't swim it then even though it's not a difficult in a technical matter, the swim consequences would raise the rating. I only say this to those who don't realize that the classes are based not only on technical difficulty but also on the consequences of missing the line or swimming.

[ilonakarow]

I don't think there would be any consequences to swimming it. The water moves fast but no obsticles or holes and there is time to swim to the eddy before the next rapid

[ilonakarow]

Ok

we've had a few swimmers now and getting them & equipment into the eddy was easy.

[walts]

wow....this tight haven't been to this part in oroville