My swims, thankfully not too many this year, are not very exciting.  Still WAY less than Adam!!  Let's see.. 1: stupid rock on the Nisqually 2: stupid hole in Snowblind 3: stupid Leif hole baiting on the Deschutes 4: stupid stupid rock on the Elwa (I still can't believe that one!!) 5: White Salmon  Oh, yeah, and that is still not as many as Adam had on the Middle Middle....  I'm probably forgetting some, but I'll be pretty excited once I get that combat roll... 

I swam the Tiltion in the big hole at the bottom of Leap of Faith, but at least I got some cartwheels under my belt. Even unintentional ones count? right?

It wasnt very funny at the time. the lower tiltion goes through a narrow sustained class III+ IV gorge with nowhere to drain a kayak, thankfuly we had a raft along.

Ashley - not so much bickering as a Cold War, just looking at each other waiting for the other to screw up so you have ammo. There, that should be enough gas to keep the fire burning for at least another 4 or 5 days.

So far I've only had one swim this year (so far!), and it wasn't too bad.. 

If we're just talking 2007, then I had two in the same day.  Farmlands at around 5 feet.  Got beat down just after little lava where the river bends and drops to the left.  The hole, the wall, and the paddle and boat of the next person who got stuck in there had it's way with me.  The next came in the set of rapids right before the shallow stretch.  Definately shouldn't have swam there.  Self rescue the first time, could have the second but people were quick to me and I welcomed the help.

To elaborate on what Tom said - I have another swim to record (and a video of some bootie beer that I'm sure Tobin will post ASAP, mmmm, gritty) Bit off a little more than I could chew in the Wall and decided pulling skirt was the better part of valor after getting slammed up against a rock and drug over a few more upside down. Ran Chaos alright, and took a good look at POW. While I was walking it (I may be dumb, but not quite THAT dumb). I did whip out a good roll on the run out from Chaos, so good in fact I went right back over the other side. I'm happy to report the HOG retention system on the Shred Ready helmets works as advertised, I took one shot in the grill, one under the chin, two to the back of the head, one to the shoulder that knocked my paddle out of one hand, grabbed the paddle and rolled up. Through that all, the helmet didn't budge, but it defintely has some good scrape marks. Again, I'd like to thank all the guys that were out on that run for their patience with a newbie trying to step it up. Yep, defintely had a bad run on the Wall, but I spent quite a bit of time today looking at it and I'm looking forward to trying it again sometime soon. - Adam

  One memorable swim I forgot to mention, was in June on the SF Payette, canyon section.  I do not know hte name of the drop, but I plugged a eddie hole on the left ( my only description for it)  and tried abotu 10 times to roll up. I never got my head outta the water, I have never felt less paddle purchase!  I got shoved against the canyon wall as I was getting outta dodge.

How far down was it?

I thought for sure I was going to swim on that run. No waayyyy!

 We were on the sky, 900cfs and throwing bows into a ledge above split rock.... I had just jested with a fine young lady that our play wasn't that hard.... so I throw a bow in, side surfed a bit and attempted 5-6 rolls before calling it!  God damn I was laughing hard when I came up for air...

The boys mentioned something about booty beers and I laughed harder... I don't even own booties!!

Well..... all that laughing was even funnier when I opted to run the second half of Last Nasty upside down and backwards with no paddle.

I drank the damn booty beers

You ain't kidding - the karma pool MUST be refilled...