Dynamic Duos creating a real shake-up on how we kayak! by Will Richardson | Mar 2, 2009 | Dynamic Duo, Rockers, Whitewater | 0 comments March 3, 2009 I am used to having fun in my kayak, and the guys I was paddling with have about as much fun as can be had every time we paddle. However, this run down the Upper Caney Fork was crazy fun! We were laughing and smiling and zipping around in our 12′ long double kayak all day long. We ran the main 8 miles of the run, which is class 2-4 with lots of nice boofs, rapids, slots, waves, holes, splats (yes you can splat the Dynamic Duo!), and eddies. There was an inch of snow on the ground when I woke up and it was only 20 degrees out. Nick and I had a truck full of wood we just cut and split and were loading on the deck when Stephen showed up to talk us into a remote 8 mile run on the Plateau. We couldn’t decide right away, but after he left, we knew we would be idiots to not go. We loaded two Dynamic Duos and one Rocker on my 1988 Landcruiser and headed up to the Plateau about 40 minutes away. It is a 5 mile 4X4 road to the take out, but in good shape this year. Billy Harris’s care stayed at the take out and we put in at about 1:30pm. Nick and I discovered a cool way to push the DD to the river by yourself. Simply put the paddle on the U-Channel in the cockpit and put the other paddle blade on your life jacket and start walking! Nick, Dane, and I also had a bobsled race on the big downhile portion of the carry in. We started side by side, with Dane in the front of mine as my driver, and I pushed as fast as I could and jumped in as we slide down the hill. Nick won, but cheated as he didn’t have a driver. He is a fast pusher though. The day started off with some surfing and spinning at the put in and some fun ferries and attainments. Once we got under way every rock, slot, eddy, boof, hole, and wave, even the trees became games. Trees in the river became slalom gates, and slots that seemed too small and too tight of turns to make were much easier than we thought as we hit everyone we could find. There were some sweet boofs where we would charge the drop and get so much speed (it is crazy fast to have two paddlers driving this fast 12 foot boat) that when we hit the rocks right, the boat would sail. We caught some of the smallest little eddies in the biggest rapids and ferried around them. It started getting funny as we decided that we should try rock spinning and splatting everything. At one point Dane and I were helicoptering over Billy’s head as we spun a rock that he was eddied out behind. The front person gets some serious air on rock splats and we got both people up on the rocks most of the time. The funny part of charging too fast is that the person in the back has to look around the front person to see exactly where the bow is going and it makes it exciting. The boat is turning out to be ridiculously easy to paddle and more fun that even we thought it would be. When I am hanging out with the team all I am hearing from them on a day like this is, "I can wait to get my mom, dad, sister, brother, friend, etc. etc. on the water in this!" I was very excited to see the Ouachita guys make a video of them paddling it. They look quite fired up too! EJ Submit a Comment Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment * Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ