Alto Palguin and pictures of the Maichin

We ran the Upper Palguin again today, after heading up to Salto Palguin in the morning (well, by "morning" I mean 1pm) and removing the log that was across it. Team log-removal was me, Sam, Xav, Emily, Martin, Seth, and Dan, and we spent two and a half hours setting up ropes and pulling the log this way and that until we finally freed it, and dropped it off the waterfall. (For those unfamiliar with the Salto Palguin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLZlHJ-yGUo ). The log spent about 20-30 seconds of downtime, before popping up and promptly washing under an undercut rock. So after all that, no one ran it. But it was a fun time freeing the log anyway.

Then we went and ran the Upper Palguin again... it was quite an adventure. The first lap went quite uneventfully. The first drop got me... again. I have yet to stick that one. I'm 0-for-4. I keep getting stuck in the hole halfway down and plugging the second drop. Except for on the second lap today, which was my 4th attempt at this rapid, where I actually swam above the drop, and so rather than running it with no momentum, Martin roped me and my boat across the lead-in and we decided to call it a day. Apparently, while I was swimming in the lead-in, there had been multiple skirt implosions down below, too. So lots of people had booty beers at Latitude tonight. :-)

I'm not going to try to build these pictures into the flow of this post at all, but now that I'm online and have more time: pictures of the Maichin!

-Brian