After a good, but long week hanging out with the Pyranha family at Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City, we headed back to Colorado for some actual kayaking. Here in the inner Crystal Gorge, Josh Bechtel is trying out the new creekboat; the Shiva.
Sporting Astral’s new ‘Down with the Brown’ shirts during Outdoor Retailer’s Open Air Demo. There were tons of new toys to explore at OR including these shirts, and more importantly the creeker Shiva protoype & new old-school playboat; the Loki.
After cleaning up after OR and saying farewells, we hit the road and arrived in Carbondale, CO at 4:15am, crashed until midday, and then managed to motivate for a Crystal Gorge mission. Perhaps owing to our post-OR tiredness, our trip in the gorge was unnecessarily epic. But, after years of living in Colorado, I am glad to finally have seen this remarkable gorge.
Pine Tree Falls – Nate (above) Dave Fusilli (below)
Josh Bechtel Shiva-ing through the inner gorge where we found lots of sticky boxed in holes.
Looking back upstream at the inner’s entrance.
Kayak porn