Got Boof?

[ridinshockgun]

The boof pictures in the Tellico thread got me started, lets see them. We got our boof on this weekend - pictures here are all from this weekend and this weekend only.

Fri, Sat, and Sun.....

(Watauga, Green, and West Fork Pigeon):

Watauga






Green


West Fork Pigeon

[skibuminwyo]

sweetness. it's giving me more and more reason to head out there this summer.

edit: what is the water temp like this time of year?

[Conundrum]

Yeah buddy!

[ridinshockgun]

edit: what is the water temp like this time of year?

Pretty damn cold.

[MarsB]

I heart Stateline!

Good boofs went down on the Big Sandy this weekend, but alas, no pics.

[Yonder_River]

So that's what a boof looks like, I heard we here out west don't do much of that type stuff.

[ridinshockgun]

That's what I heard.

This was supposed to be an audience participation thread.

[skibuminwyo]

Now what is a boof again?

[kayaktheworld]

Boofing is for pussies, real men just piton/get worked and take it.

As we all know, there is nothing more manly than not boofing. When the ladies see you getting worked and/or breaking your ankles, they will know just how manly you are. And, as we are all aware, kayaking is all for the ladies.

Really though, Ridinshockgun, you need to stop posting all this sick winter paddling from out east, it is making me sad that the closest I get to the gnar gnar is the high dive...

[SuperChief]

Didn't boof until I moved to WV and this was the first real place I had to learn it.

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[skibuminwyo]

Boofing is for pussies, real men just piton/get worked and take it.

As we all know, there is nothing more manly than not boofing. When the ladies see you getting worked and/or breaking your ankles, they will know just how manly you are. And, as we are all aware, kayaking is all for the ladies.

Brilliant!


edit: how cold is cold? like instant headache when you go over? my buddy lived down there and said he doesn't even wear a drytop during the summer. Just curious what it is like this time of year. We are stuck in drytops permanently and usually dry pants as well. Just curious how it compares.

[SuperChief]

WV is definately dry top and pogies country, it's been 50 degrees here since Saturday, yesterday was 65+ the water is still cold but if your hardcore you can boat all winter here. I have a 45 degree rule these days.

[skibuminwyo]

hmmmmm interesting. One of the guys in town here boats about 200 days a year. Alot of that obviously is late fall/winter/early spring. The guy is insane. I think he cuts off when it reaches about freezing.

[ridinshockgun]

Yes, its instant ice cream headache. Especially the Watauga....brrr.

Poagies, skullcap, ear plugs, etc, etc.

[Dug]

Sweeeet.

[skibuminwyo]

still sounds fun. it may have to happen

[teledave]

Yes, its instant ice cream headache. Especially the Watauga....brrr.

Poagies, skullcap, ear plugs, etc, etc.

Pussy.

I doubt it's any colder than snowmelt runs in WY, CO, etc.

[markb]

Nice idea, I'll throw some more boof shots up later, I'm on the road.

No offense to some of the more sensitive boaters who learned to paddle out west, it's just different priorities for different river character. You can and have to be more surgical with steep low volume, but if that's all you have you don't really learn how to paddle continuous big water. You learn to handle holes more from playboating than creeking in the east. That's why runs like the NFP throw such a nice kick at plenty of SE boaters.

It's more recent that the low-volume runs are getting hit out west. First time I showed Chuck Stanley and Richard Montgomery some vids of back east and stuff like SSilver, they thought it looked like "waterslides for kayaks". They said they never would have thought of wasting their time on bony little runs, at a time when the Snyders, Gentry's crew, etc. were hitting all that up back east.

Eastern boaters'll paddle runs at lower levels because they have to. It'd probably be different if there was a snowpack to work with in the east. If 200% was the norm on the Green, we'd see a different style come out of there.

As for temps, there's good boating all winter all over the west. Coastal Range, lower Cascades, low elevation Sierra. Good days in Tahoe are powder mornings and sunny afternoons on the SYuba, high school girls playing hookey in bikinis out on the rocks. Buds who would hit Alberton Gorge during the winter seemed nuts to me though. Comes down to no good snow in the SE.

[RootSkier]

Yeah, there is nothing steep and no boofs out west.

[RootSkier]

Buds who would hit Alberton Gorge during the winter seemed nuts to me though.

A couple fifty degree days and it's good to go...solid ice right now, though. Plus people who paddle when the powder is like it is currently need their heads checked.

[skibuminwyo]

no, nothing to boof out here at all. the top three were stolen from coldfear.com

[ridinshockgun]

YES! That's what I was looking for.

More.......

[markb]

Here's a bunch of boof shots, all from out west to spread the love.

Wish I had some stills and not just vid from Tatlow, some particularly nice boofs in there when water's on the high side. One of the funnest boofs to lap out west is crack on lavezolla, makes your guts sore. Obviously endless good boofs on the west coast; just way fewer boaters.

The bruised balls shot from silver fork is pretty grainy (old shot) but you can see my paddle sticking out upper left. Landed that too flat; separated ribs.

And had to throw a little rafting in there just to mix it up on one of our bald rock runs, in honor of the NOC rafting thread (both of us chattooga guides).

[skibuminwyo]

Rafting shot = $$$$

[JerseyDave]

VT/NY Boofs