“Sliding down the shallow ledge, I looked for a flake or any other feature I could grab with the blade of my paddle. No luck. I speared the hole and felt my bow rise in the boil beyond it. When it surfaced, I was facing river right and the hull of my kayak settled into the hydraulic…”

On this episode of In Between Swims, The American Whitewater Story of the Year - "(Trouble)shooting the Magpie." Mike McDonnell’s tale of a Canadian whitewater trip, a swim, a lost boat, and much, much more…

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~jeffmc

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