Lava Falls "The Return"
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Uploaded by Kelebrinlith on Jun 13, 2009
On a 5-day backpack trip 40 years ago I got to ride through Lava Falls with a drunken guide. This May (almost exactly 40 years later) I did my only trip through the Canyon and I rowed my own boat.
For more than 30 years I have rafted from Arizona to Alaska all because of a ride through Lava Falls.
I took along my fathers ashes. He never got to do a white water river trip with me. He stayed dry. I did some swimming in the first 25 miles in a unnamed and unrated rapid. The "Falls" loomed in the distance and each day I got closer and more than a little bit worried. This is a video of my run through Lava Falls with my dad.
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Great place!!!
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Thanks for all the pictures and information. Hope your birthday goes as planned. Maybe next year on the river we can jump through the fire
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Happy Birthday you old Monster. 6,656 years old. No wonder you hurt all the time. see you on the mountain I got booze and firestarter. Remember NOFATCHX
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Great vid and music! I'm curious too... was the cam strapped to the boat?
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That would be great on a huge screen
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That looked cool!did you strap the camera on for that?
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Wow, perfect, almost too safe, too perfect like wheres the fun?? No, I'm not bashing at all! I LOVE that you got a great run on film!! I posted a comment 2 years ago (as you can see) and just took a second look...
Were you on the boat yourself? The water c.f.s. looks really high!! How high was it?
SwayGirl666 5 months ago 2
@SwayGirl666 I think the water was between 7 to 9,000 cfs (Cubic Feet a Second) I am rowing alone in my 15 foot boat. I did take my dad's ashes along. We swam "Indian Dick" Mile 23 1/2. Long cold and scary. From then on I paid closer attention. I also put on my class V life jacket as I could not make it to the surface with my old class III. It had been a long time since I swam and there is nothing like break a dry spell with one wet as hell!
Kelebrinlith 5 months ago
Hey Kelebrinlith !
Thanks for your message! Great ride!
Thanks for posting your video!
PEACE! ~Micki~ AKA ~SWAY~
SwayGirl666 2 years ago
The ride was fast but at least I got it on camera. I turned the camera on during all the major rapids and a few minor ones. It only worked correctly on Lava so at least I have that. I do have some scenery shots while running Crystal and Hermit and Duebendorf which I accidently ran backwards right down the middle. The camera was at the start but quit when it get scared. Look forward to the Salt. -- ghd
Kelebrinlith 2 years ago