Sunday, May 13, 2012

Celestial Falls

As soon as I returned from an amazing paddling journey in Yunnan, China, I was stoked to be back in the Columbia Gorge ready to go huck some local stouts. We had juicy high water and the first stop was Oregon's Celestial Falls! Back when I was 15 years old, I fired this waterfall off for the first time at low water. This time it was going to be high water! We hiked our boats down and it was time to seal launch into the vertical gorge and paddle towards the lip.

                              Taking a stroke to straighten out as I drop off the Lip of this beauty!

                                                                Dropping off the lip
                                           Same waterfall but lower water. This was my first time kayaking it