I chose this year for our annual rafting trip Yuba river. It is class III - IV with one class V rapid which people can decide if they want to walk around it or ride it. This year signed up 24 people, but the California weather was playing with us and for the first week of June the forecast predicted cold and rainy weather and 11 people canceled. The 13 brave, hard core people left on Saturday morning (actually only 11, 2 arrived on Sunday morning just for the rafting) and spent the day around Grass Valley. We met for nice lunch, then walked around interested gold mine - Empire mine and since it was raining the whole time, we had also dinner at Grass Valley and then drove to the campground.
Sunday morning we met with our Whitewater voyages, company that we went every year so far. We put wetsuits and warm layers on and drove to the starting point on the river. Then we listen to safety talk, how to behave in the river if something doesn't go well, and that time we didn't know how useful it will be for some of us. The rapids in the beginning weren't too dangerous, mostly III class with some IV class, but it changed after lunch. Maytag is class V rapid, we stopped at shore to look at it and if somebody wasn't comfortable to ride it they could walk around it, nobody chose to walk though :). Raft with me went first, we got into hole, our guide and two other people were washed of, I hold for a little bit more, but then I swam too. This was first time that I fell of the boat. The last three people on raft managed to get out without another loss! It was just great experience swimming through the rapid! The second boat manage without problems. After that we had a few other interesting rapids before we ended up in the campground. On the way back we stopped at Czech restaurant in Concord for dinner.
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Tento rok jsem vybrala pro vyrocni rafting reku Yuba. Je to III - IV trida s jednema perejema tridy V, kde si clovek mohl vybrat jestli je pojede na raftu a nebo obejde. Tento rok melo jet 24 lidi, ale Kalifornske pocasi si s nami hralo a na prvni vikend v cervnu predpoved rikala zimu a dest a tak 11 lidi zrusilo. Tech 13 statecnych a zdatnych vyjelo v sobotu rano (vlastne jen 11, 2 prijeli az v nedeli rano jen na rafting) a ztravilo den v okoli mesta Grass Valley. Potkali jsme se na obed, pak jsme se prosli kolem zajimavych zlatych dolu - Empire mine a protoze nam porad prselo, zasli jsme si take jeste na veceri v Grass Valley nez jsme odjeli do kempu.
V nedeli rano jsme se potkli s Whitewater Voyages, firmou se kterou jsme zatim jeli kazdy rok. Oblekly jsme si neoprny a dalsi teple vrsty a jeli jsme na misto odkud jsme zacinali rafting. Nejdrive jsme si vyslechli jak se chovat na vode, kdyby se neco nemileho stalo, to jsme ani jeste nevedeli, ze pro nektere z nas to bude velice uzitecne! Pereje zpocatku nebyly prilis nebezpecne, vetsinou tridy III, a par IV, ale to se zmenilo po obede. Maytag je perej tridy V a tak jsme nejdrive zastavili u brehu a obhledli situaci, kdo by chtel, mohl tuto perej obejit, ale vsichni chteli jet. :) Raft, kde jsem sedela jel prvni, dostali jsme se do diry, a nas instruktor a dalsi dva lidi byli smeteni do vody, ja jsem se drzela jeste chvili, ale pak jsem ve vode zkoncila take. Toto bylo poprve, co jsem spadla z lode! Trem poslednim lidem na raftu se podarilo odtud dostat bez dalsi ztraty! Byla to zajimava zkusenost plavat pereji! Druha lod proprula bez potizi. Pak uz bylo jen par dalsich zajimavych pereji a zkoncili jsme u kempu. Na ceste zpatky jsme se zastavili v Ceske restauraci v Concordu na veceri.
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