Professor Paddle: Carbon river with ricks footage

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   Decided to try raft the Carbon a couple weeks ago.  Had two rafts and repelled one in below ricks and we put in at the top.  Had a low flow (400cfs) which worked out fairly well for combining both sections and not making the top section to hairy. Trip went very well and somehow we made it down without any portages and the raft was able to fit through everything except the very last slot on the class 3 runout of the last rapid (landslide) and had to deflate her a bit to make her through.  Jon, one of the rafters who repelled in, had a camera and was able to get a little footage of ricks.  We had tried to get footage of this rapid before the trip and could not find any anywhere that had someone going down the rapid.  Jon got a good shot of us coming down but somehow the zoom got screwed up and the kayak shots were too blurry.  Hopefully this kinda helps though to see what ricks looks like from the bottom.  Also threw in short vids of the 14 footer and the landslide rapid (landslide rapid looked much different than the previous videos we saw).   

Rafting Ricks slide

http://vimeo.com/20538331

Drebo shows a great kayak line on the 14 footer

http://vimeo.com/20537780

John shows the line at landside rapid

http://vimeo.com/20538141

Rafting the 14 footer

http://vimeo.com/20538529