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It started out at about 5:30 in the morning (after not falling asleep until 3:30) when I woke up to my phone ringing. It took two rings to figure why the caller ID wasn't lighting up- I was looking up at the back of the phone. Art was already driving, and said gauges were showing things higher than he'd ever seen them. I got gear together and loaded up the boat and hit the road, heading for the Delaware Water Gap. After plans changed 3 or 4 times, the group met up and split up into 2 groups, we put on Adams Creek at high water. Toby running the first drop on Adams Creek, a decent warm up with an ill-placed log. Following this is a long portage around a couple of gorged out drops running into a 35 footer onto rocks.  After the portage is this stout sequence. The top drop involves threading between a log and a piton rock. The bottom section is a twisting, walled in slide, leading into a 5 foot ledge. Scouting from above, I misjudged this one.  After getting pushed around coming into the last ledge, I was way off line, pitoned the wall, flipped, acheived a sweet bow-body pin, and swam. No one else gave this one a shot.  The next sequence is around this cool old mill. Aaron gets ready to drop the big mill drop, which is a hard to boof, easy to piton ledge.  Here's the big mill drop. The ideal line would be to boof hard right, but that would put you hard into the wall, so the game is to balance the boof with not going too far right. It took us a long time to scout the last gorge. Four drops, the first one was a spout to clapper that we decided to walk since we'd had enough pitons (especially Art, who's boat didn't survive the mill drop). Drop two was a 3 foot ledge leading quickly into a 20 footer. The hardest part was the seal launch into it, sending us flying into the drop in a flash. Sitting in the room below was one of the coolest places I've ever been. Vertical walls on both sides, with only a narrow slot leading out, into the third drop, a slide to 5 foot boof.  Wayne G below the last drop on Adams. It's a ~35ft drop with a shelf halfway down, and an ill placed hole/rock on the lip. All in all, highwater Adams Creek was a stout mission, taking us most of the day, so we didn't get to the second creek that day. Saturday was time for round two. I was hoping for Hornbecks, but when I got back into the Gap, Tumbling Waters (Mill Creek) was still running at a medium-low level. After yesterday's mission, I was up for something a little more low key. Especially since the temperature was in the high 20's and my skirt kept freezing everytime we scouted.  Brenton and I in "Signs of Life," the warm up for TW.  PEECaboo falls- shallow, with wood on the right. I don't have a shot of the signature drop, "Back Alley Brawl," but have it on video, so you'll just have to wait for that.  Heaven's Gate.  Brenton on the first drop of Raging Angels- a 25ft to 15 ft combo.  The second drop of Raging Angels. Right below here is a horrible looking 70ft cascade onto rocks. After tumbling down Tumbling Waters, we headed to Sawkill, but since it was late and cold, we didn't take pictures. Thanks to Art Barket, Jason McMullen, and Jeff Ackerman for the pictures. And today, it was back to Holtwood for me. |
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