Posted: 4/11/2008 6:24:59 PM EDT
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Anyone plan on going this year? |
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**raises his hand and jumps around*** ooh ooh me mee oooh right here meeeee! i live in seguin, just a bit down the road. LET ME KNOW and i am all over this. i love floating the river. a lil' anecdote from my last float, ahem: so we rented tubes from Rockin R. about two hours down the river i notice my tube is not as taught as it was when the float started. i looked down by my right thigh and notice small bubbles coming from the tube, yes the tube not my arse. i'll be damned, my tube has a hole. so for the next six, SIX hours, my tube completely deflates and i roll up the tube so that it is holding what air is left and hang on to it while i kick/paddle down the river. i'll tell ya somethin else, there are some big ass rocks just deep enough under water that you can't see them till you drag your shins over them, i still have scars. when i came to the rapids i had to get out and walk around and i left my flip flops on the beer float i had been tethered to before. i was beat to hell after that float. some ass had a rockin r tube tied off to his canoe, i asked if i could swap him and he told me no, i told him he better not let me catch him, i was gonna tip his canoe over but he paddled away. so i am looking forward to a great float this time, |
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WOO HOO Going May 16-18. Group of at least 15 so far. We even recruited the guy that plays guitar at our local bar to go, so the single guys have a draw to our campsite each night. Staying at Mountain Breeze. I am 30, starting to feel a little old to do this, but it is just too much fun. Mountain Breeze is a good one because I think they drop you in an area that wasnt affected by the cooler restriction. |
| Camp, eat, drink, shower at Mountain Breeze. Rent a tube from Mountain Breeze, they drive you upstream, you tube down to Mountain Breeze or continue down river to a take-out point where Mountain Breeze picks you up in a fun, old school bus and drives you back to MB. Good times! |
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The water on the upper Guad is still a bit too cool for tubing. Met a few tubers over the weekend on my kayak trips. Most were around US 281-FM 311. The flow is down, making it a long trip, timewise. They all wanted a tow, that would make it slow for all of us and make me dead tired. One even asked if I was Tony Romo! Damn, I didn't think I was that young. Saturday was a 5.6 mile trip, taking ~3 hours due to the tail wind. But Sunday's 4.4 mile trip took 3:15 as the river took some jaunts north, direct headwind on flat water. Rust Falls (1/2 mile upstream from Rebecca Creek take-out) is still awesome, even at the current flow of ~ 120 cubic feet per second. Most other falls/rapids are draggers at that flow. After taking out, I had that little incident with the licens plate and my knee  so I will be off the river until healed.The lower Guad is even cooler. The Comal River is best when it is hot as it is a constant 78 F around the year, being a spring-fed, shortest river in Texas. |
