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Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
Bing Hitler
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Date: March 26, 2011 09:36PM
With all the rain lately probably turn them tranquil streams into class 3's in the next week. Bring a helmet and a chain saw. Yippee!
anyone ever done Accotink?
anyone ever done Accotink?
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
496
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Date: March 26, 2011 10:58PM
Can you say strainer?
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
unclebenz
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Date: March 27, 2011 08:06PM
Shoot me a PM Im down to go canoeing. I live right on the bull run creek. I have never been and would like to check it out.
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: March 27, 2011 08:46PM
I've done the Rappahannock and the North Fork of the Shenandoah (Sans helmet, which was dangerous on the former). I think I'm ready for Niagra Falls!
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
Jimmy James
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Date: March 27, 2011 10:12PM
oh man. cub run creek in centreville after a rain is Awesome for rafting.
me and a bunch of friends used to do it all the time back in highschool.
we'd go to walmart and buy 10 dollar rafts and put in under the 29 bridge next to london towne...we float for an hour down to compton road, where we'd have another truck parked to drive us back.
100 yards downstream from 29 bridge, the terrain changes and the creek narrows and turns into downward rocky rapids. the water rushes past the rocks causing white water rapids, and you and your lil inflatable boat will be spinning around and cruising over the water rushing over the rocks..sometimes the water is so fast and strong, it is kind of scary. you have to go right after a big rain/flood..otherwise your not gonna have any fun. sometimes you feel like your on some huge rafting trip in Alaska..yes, its that good. the trip usually lasts only an hour but you just gotta drive back and do it again.
I forgot how fun that is...i might be doing this again this spring.
me and a bunch of friends used to do it all the time back in highschool.
we'd go to walmart and buy 10 dollar rafts and put in under the 29 bridge next to london towne...we float for an hour down to compton road, where we'd have another truck parked to drive us back.
100 yards downstream from 29 bridge, the terrain changes and the creek narrows and turns into downward rocky rapids. the water rushes past the rocks causing white water rapids, and you and your lil inflatable boat will be spinning around and cruising over the water rushing over the rocks..sometimes the water is so fast and strong, it is kind of scary. you have to go right after a big rain/flood..otherwise your not gonna have any fun. sometimes you feel like your on some huge rafting trip in Alaska..yes, its that good. the trip usually lasts only an hour but you just gotta drive back and do it again.
I forgot how fun that is...i might be doing this again this spring.
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: March 27, 2011 11:55PM
Wow, I had no idea that you could do that in a creek.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
Class iv
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Date: March 28, 2011 07:45AM
Large rains always bring out the large poisonous snakes that get displaced. Had to whack several with the paddle the last time we went. Use caution
Re: Who wants to canoe down Cub or Bull Run
Posted by:
496
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Date: March 28, 2011 09:46AM
Class iv Wrote:
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> Large rains always bring out the large poisonous
> snakes that get displaced. Had to whack several
> with the paddle the last time we went. Use caution
Not to mention the detritus of Manassas.
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> Large rains always bring out the large poisonous
> snakes that get displaced. Had to whack several
> with the paddle the last time we went. Use caution
Not to mention the detritus of Manassas.