{"id":863,"date":"2006-05-13T23:41:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T06:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2020-07-20T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:38:03","slug":"rafting-the-kern-river-may-13-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Rafting The Kern River &#8211; May 13, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kern River has been flowing pretty well from snow this last Winter, so it&#8217;s time for us to do some local rafting.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a three hour drive for John is &#8220;local;&#8221; he has been known to drive to Las Vegas just for lunch.<br \/>\n<a name=\"deathcount\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/1a3.jpg\" alt=\"We check the river\u2019s death count before going in to town.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">We checked the Kern River&#8217;s death count before going in to town.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">From what I have been told, most of the deaths are attributed to drunk people without life jackets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">At least I would have a life jacket.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/2a2.jpg\" alt=\"We had a slight problem with a valve that caused a delay of two hours.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">We had a slight problem with a valve that caused a delay of two hours.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/4a1.jpg\" alt=\"But soon we were on the river\u2026\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">But soon we were on the river&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/3a1.jpg\" alt=\"Launching from the Kern River.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">This is the way the operation basically worked:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">In shifts, we would take turns loading the raft on to the van&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/5a1.jpg\" alt=\"The raft is ready for another trip.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">The driver would drive the Guide (John) and the paddlers up the river just past &#8220;The Power Plant.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">The raft would launch from there.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/6a1.jpg\" alt=\"Coming in\u2026\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">The van would meet them down river at a park in Kernville.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">The whole process would start over for the next trip.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">The trip down river took about 40 minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/7a1.jpg\" alt=\"Me and Ed ready for our turn down the river.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">Ed and I are ready for our trip down the river.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">I believe we got four trips in today, maybe as many as five.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/8a1.jpg\" alt=\"We scout out our next rapids adventure.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a nmae=\"deathcount\">On the way home, we scouted out potential new rapids for our next trip.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kern River has been flowing pretty well from snow this last Winter, so it&#8217;s time for us to do some local rafting. Well, a three hour drive for John is &#8220;local;&#8221; he has been known to drive to Las Vegas just for lunch. We checked the Kern River&#8217;s death count before going in to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}