River Log: June 3

Today we went down the Provo River as a class. Carol Ann and I saddled up in an inflatable kayak and she took the back rudder position. We put in close to Deer Creek Reservoir, just below the old bridge and went down to Vivian Park. The whole trip was fairly short but fun. Carol Ann struggled a bit at first with the J-stroke that she was practicing, but got it (I think) in the end. And I had fun pulling us into 360s and such. Provo Canyon is a beautiful place and I am really going to miss it. But I am going to have a lot of fun on the rivers back east, so I think that I will manage.

I can't say that I learned too much besides how to correctly handle the eddys. The way to get into an eddy is to turn into it at the head so that you are already turning the direction that the water is going to take you (back upstream). And the way to get out of an eddy is to go to the head and then turn into the current. That way once you hit the current it just finishes your turn for you and you are heading down the river.