Rafting - North Fork American River 9. - 10.5. 09

This was the most difficult, but also the most exciting rafting I have ever been to. I managed to organize group of 12 friends and friends of friends to go for rafting to North Fork of American River. We left on Saturday and camped at the Whitewater Voyages campsite, which is nice place by the American River, about 40 miles pass Sacramento. The difficulty of the river was IV + and since the level of water was high we could expect some action! We had two rafts and in the first 10 minutes one of the rafts managed to flip. Nobody was hurt so now we can just laugh at all the pictures that was taken! The other excitement later was when different company flipped on different rapid and managed to loose everybody including the guide from the boat. We helped them to transfer some of their "swimmers" and collect paddles. After lunch the rest of the way was relatively calm. On the way back home (and actually on the way there too) we stopped at Czech Restaurant in Concord and had a few typical Czech meals, so great weekend over all!
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Tento rafting byl zatim nejobtiznejsi ale take nejvzrusujici ze vsech raftingu na kterych jsem byla. Podarilo se mi zorganizovat skupinu 12 kamaradu a kamaradu od kamaradu a vyjeli jsme na North Fork American River. Vyjeli jsme uz v sobotu a stanovali jsme v kampu Whitewater Voyages (spolecnost se kterou jsme jeli), coz je pekne misto u American River, asi 40 mil za Sacramentem. Obtiznost reky byla IV+ a s vysokou hladinou vody se dal ocekavat napinavy dej. Jeli jsme na dvou raftech a behem prvnich 10 minut se jeden z nasich raftu obratil. Nikdo nebyl zraneny a tak se muzeme ted uz jen smat nad fotkama. Dalsi vzruseni prislo kdyz se raft jine spolecnosti obratil a ztratil vsechny vcetne kormedilnika. Pomohli jsme jim vsechny lidi ve vode a padla posbirat. Po obede zbytek cesty byl relativne klidny. Na ceste zpatky (a vlastne i po ceste tam) jsme se zastavili v Ceske restauraci v Condordu a meli jsme nekolik typickych ceskych jidel (tlacenka, smazeny syr, ptacky, svickova), tak ze skvely vikend!
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