Sieves, Undercuts, and a whole lot of fun especially when the evening party is fueled with local Moon Shine. As the weekend finished up there was a couple of us that had nothing better to do, so we drank more Shine and played with cameras. During that evening Brandon Gonski managed to catch the best shot of the Wrec Center ever.
Brandon Gonski took this incredible picture, |
Horse Pasture light,
Well it wasn’t a light hike. It seems I have been bringing the rain to the South East for a few years and this year was no exception. With the rain pounding down I meet up with Gareth Tate, we cruised out to pick up Lee Timmons and heading to the Horse Pasture as we past over the Toxaway I had to stop and check the gauge, it was in!, but it was also 1:30 pm, and way to late in the day to start a huge mission into the Toxaway. So we drove on and got to the Horse Pasture, the level was on the high side of good. We hiked to the river and the thunderous put in falls almost blew me over. Lee had a bad vibe from the get go, but was willing to play along for a bit. Gareth and I where on our usual style, LETS GET THIS SHIT! We bombed off the first couple drops and Lee decided to bail, and hike out. Gareth and I managed to push down stream and get to the bottom of Stair-step before we started loosing light. With a small, inexperienced crew, loosing light, we made a good decision and hiked out. By the time I made it back up the hill to the Wrec Center it was already time to break out the Petzel head lamp.
Gareth getting a great last stroke |
Chris Baer sliding down stream, photo by Lee Timmons |
Who says class 5 isn’t fun, look at that smile, photo my Lee Timmons |
Gareth looking back up at Stair-step |
Chris Baer blasting the Fun Whistle in the Notch eddy |
Chris Baer getting his boof stroke and one last blast in the Fun Whistle |
Chris Baer practicing, 1 |
Chris Baer practicing, 2 |
Chris Baer practicing, 3 |
Chris Wing coming off Gorilla |
Jeff Clewell with a big Flying Squirrel move |
Big Crowd at Gorilla |
Chris Baer racing through Nieces Pieces |
Crowd looking into the Notch |
Chris Wing racing through the slides |
Panting to the Finnish line |
Another pretty line |
Resurfacing through the Notch |
Crowd at the lip of Gorilla |
Frog men in action |
Best safety in the world, especially if you get your helmet ripped off |
Big Gorilla boof |
Jason Hale running Gorilla switch after catching the birthday eddy |
Hale disappearing |
Another great line |
What nightmares are made of |
Another backwards run off Gorilla Chris Baer finding his way through Go Left Check out post race fun Everybody Shines from 7 Finger media on Vimeo. |
Next update will be coming from Central America until then go big and smile bigger and give your fun whistle a big blast.
Chris Baer