{"id":1868,"date":"2010-06-19T23:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T06:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2020-07-20T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:34:42","slug":"rafting-the-upper-kern-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Rafting The Upper Kern River"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was determined to raft at least once this year, before the water level dipped to pinball levels.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, we didn’t have enough people to make the trip; on Friday everyone was calling me wanting to go.<\/p>\n

The crew this trip consisted of Instructor John, Darnell, me and first timers for this group – James, Haylee and Ulli.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Kern River death count is now at 251.<\/p>\n

We were on the river at noon.<\/p>\n

The water level was still running decent, but down from previous weekends.<\/p>\n

The first run…<\/p>\n

\"Instructor<\/p>\n

… Instructor John, Me, James, Haylee and Ulli.<\/p>\n

The raft remained in control; everyone paid attention to the commands.<\/p>\n

Lots of pits and hay stacks, especially over the Powerhouse rapids.<\/p>\n

There was a photographer at the Ewing rapids, but as we found out later, they didn’t take any pictures of us the whole day.<\/p>\n

The crew of the second run…<\/p>\n

\"Ulli,<\/p>\n

…Ulli, Instructor John, Darnell, James and Haylee.<\/p>\n

The second run shoves off…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I sat out the second run and drove the van back down hill.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

This is Ulli from East Germany – an absolutely fascinating and entertaining woman who slightly remembers how badly communism sucked.<\/p>\n

\"To<\/p>\n

To make Ulli feel safe, I wore my German Police shirt.<\/p>\n

We ended up making two more runs; each run was about 30 minutes down four miles of river.<\/p>\n

It seemed like half the rafters going down the Ewing rapids wiped out; we didn’t.<\/p>\n

This was a perfect trip – everyone showed up and on time, traffic there and back was light, nobody fell out of the raft and everyone did their share of what had to be done.<\/p>\n

We’re not sure when the next trip will be, but it may not be until next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was determined to raft at least once this year, before the water level dipped to pinball levels. On Wednesday, we didn’t have enough people to make the trip; on Friday everyone was calling me wanting to go. The crew this trip consisted of Instructor John, Darnell, me and first timers for this group – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}