Some Favorites:
Midnight run with Matt and Kodak in the middle of exams last winter
Showing Anthony and Alex down the Castor River
(Alex hanging onto that little willow above drop II)
Anthony and Hannah's faces running entrance rapid on the upper at 2-3 feet over the bridge
Oscar and Rococo
Mark's phenomenal T rescues
Chasing Mike McFadden down the Russell Fork (like he needed it...)
Watching Alex roll right at the crux of Cat's Paw, at midnight, in the fog, 18 inches.
Running slalom gates at 2 foot over the bridge.
Liz's first run at 15 inches and Matt and I's flawless T rescuing system.
Watching Han and Anthony develop into damn good boaters and officers for next year.
Enders in old-skool boats
Mark and Thomas's first river rolls
Getting Matt out to Howell Island and blowing his mind
Watching Max go beer for beer with Mike from Connecticut.
Running the notch in the dam in a slalom boat
Feeling defensive about my hand rolling skills when watching Max and Alex
Waiting out the all-night downpour in the Buick with my two best friends, an iPod, and a bottle of Jameson
Laughing my guts out at a pasta house, on a school night, in Farmington.
Missing my line and running the meat of Cat's Paw at 3.5 feet over the bridge
That monster wave in Rickety rack that almost ate Han, and Mike, and Anthony.
Mike, Pat, and Erika for making Tuesdays and Thursdays the best of the week.
Boofin' Liz's big yellow boat at Cat's paw.
"40 dollar fire" and other campfire numbers.
Rolling into the clinic, six boats high.
Whatever happened to Anthony at Double Drop that one day
Seal launches off the dam
MWA folks asking me where the SLU CREW got their skills
Intentionally hitting every rock on the river with Kodak and Laura at 2 inches, and doing it twice!
Liz's sonnets and a hundred other things
Thanks everyone, it was a great year!
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