Great paddling with the coastals crowd as always, and congrats to everyone who made PFD's
So I tried something different this weekend: borrowed Peter L's superfun (too big for him, about right for me for playability I guess) and FIRED UP THE NRG!
This is going to be a long one with some carnage and suspense towards the end of Day 1, but a happy ending, so grab a beer 
SATURDAY:
Made my putin test rolls on both sides, and proceeded on down. Had a flip early on at Lower Railroad and rolled up and began thinking that this could turn into a long day with this boat, but kept my hair dry for a while afterwards.
My Saturday Keeney pictures are
here.
So somewhere around Lower Keeneys our supergroup of like 30 got broken up a bit for lunch - some apparently headed down to the beach on RL for lunch, the raft pulled off at "The Stadium" on RL below Lollygag, Justin and I hung around at Lollygag for a while practicing stern squirts (had the superfun vertical for about 8 seconds, fun stuff!)
So after we got tired of that, joined up with the raft, had a quick lunch and headed on down - We now had a group of 4 hard boaters (Myself, Justin, Nicholas from DC/Monocacy, and Matt) and were trailing the raft, I don't think Matt's on here to defend himself, so I'll tell on him
So it wasn't too long before carnage ensued
starting with the unnamed rapid that is between Hook 99 and Greyhound.. I took some random line down the right of that rapid skirted some hole, and Matt followed me but pretty much went into the hole sideways, after he was spit out of the hole he missed 2 roll attempts, and even though I was right there for a T he came out of his boat. We picked up his pieces above greyhound, and proceeded on down to Upper Kaymoor.
At Upper Kaymoor, I told everyone about the horizontal slot between the rocks, and told Matt it's a challenge by choice move and to take the left or right side otherwise, so he elected to be a good sport and give it a shot
. I think Justin made the move, Matt didn't quite get into the slot, flipped probably got dragged along the bottom and came out of his boat pretty quick
so we picked up the pieces again and kept heading down.
At lower kaymoor we took the left side, I told everyone about the smear at the bottom, and they all followed me. Turned out there wasnt quite enough water for the smear in the usual spot and theres another pointy rock there thats usually covered which screwed up my launch , so I flipped and rolled up. Probably for the better - everyone else pretty much just ended up running down the chute further left and it was uneventful.
Moving on to Millers Folly or "Undercut rock" as some of yall call it, I gave the usual speach about the rock being undercut etc. So I ran the first little dip and, immediately turned and faced up stream to watch Matt, looked like he entered slightly right of where I did and flipped on the first drop and drifted towards the rock, and I said
OH SH*T and I then ended up getting flipped myself somewhere in the middle of the rapid while watching him, by the time I rolled up Matt was out of his boat and drifting towards me (was actually relieved to see he was clear of the rock and swimming).
He later claimed that he braced off the rock with his hands and managed to stay clear of going under it before coming out of his boat.
So I helped get Matt to shore and in the meantime, his boat had fallen behind and was with Justin (couldn't see that far up, not sure what was going on) But anyways, eventualy Matt's boat (a necky
without float bags 
) got pinned on a rock above what I think is called "invisible rock" And so began our recovery effort.
Justin and Nicholas met me at the botom of Millers Folly, and we hatched a plan that I would paddle/hike up to the pinned boat and ferry across with Justin's rope and attach it to Matt's pinned boat.
The plan got off to a good start untill the rope ran out about 8 feet short of the pinned boat. So while in my boat, I grabbed onto the bow of the boat, and slowly managed to get it free, and began trying to guide it down the rapid. Didn't get too far before the boat decided to drift and got pinned on another rock.
I caught the small eddy behind that rock (which was about exactly the size of the superfun). It was taking a whole lot of effort to stay in that eddy, and meanwhile Justin kept trying to throw the rope out to me to hook onto the boat. And for whatever reason, it kept coming up short
So while he was repacking his rope to give it another shot I was attempting to get out of my boat onto the rock that Matt's boat was pinned on. It was becoming obvious that I would not be able to step out of the boat and onto the rock and still be able to keep the superfun from floating away.
Ended up getting a hand on the opposite side of the rock, and pulling myself up onto the rock on my stomach while still in the boat (an amuzing site if anyone out there got a picture
Having my torso entirerly on the rock I was trying to roll the boat under me to sit up and wasn't having too much luck. Eventually the skirt poped itself off and the superfun started to come off of me. I held onto it with my foot and ultimately got myself, and the superfun up onto the rock, which had just enough water splashing over it where it could have lifted and floated the superfun away at any time, one or 2 private rafts came by but no one stopped.
So meanwhile while Justin and I were debating what to do next, a late day Songer raft came by and offered assistance. I managed to drag the pinned boat up onto the rock, emptied the water out and put it on the raft, which then took it down to the botom of the rapid. THANKS SONGER GUIDE
So lesson's learned at Millers Folly: I'm taking newbies way the hell left next time so that they can't drift anywhere near the undercut, and I may stop telling people its undercut and just say its unfriendly - as this seems to produce a tractor beam or tunnel vision effect that freaks people out and pulls them toward it as they forget to paddle
SUNDAY:
Meanwhile - saturday night I exchanged some 20 texts with Mark T and convinced him that sleeping in is lame, and he needs to drag his sorry butt up to the NRG early so that he can run on Sunday and Monday, or better yet 2 runs on Sunday!
While tempted to do an Upper Gauley ELF run for variety, opted to try the Double NRG run, and made plans to paddle with Dave Stephens and Sawyers crew.
So my plan was to run the Superfun on Run 1, and Remix on Run 2.
At the putin, met up with 3 Canadians who were looking to bum a shuttle, I advised them that we were planning to do 2 runs and at the very least we can probably get their driver back, so they came along.
The supergroup was once again present at the putin - but the express group eventually broke off, and was comprised of Matt (now running in a liquid logic boat with float bags), the 3 Canadians (Joel, Dylan, Mike), Dave's raft, and another Dave (in a ducky).
(That Mark T guy changed his mind on going for 2 runs and bailed on us hanging back with the big group
)
We moved at a relatively quick pace, everyone stayed in their boats through the Keeneys (My pics
here), I jumped out at Lower Keeney to grab some video, and we got all the way to double Z before there was any carnage, and Dave came out of the ducky. I got to him for assistance, and he rode out the bottom half of double Z straddled between the superfun and the ducky.
Can't remember which rapid it was but Matt flipped, missed 2 roll attempts and finally heeded my advice to hang out for a T and I got him up, good run for him otherwise.
The 3 canadian guys stayed in their boats all day.
Unfortunately the run took longer than expected and some of the group got tired etc, so while there was plenty of time for it, Run 2 never happened, so we settled for running fayette station again and playing in it for a while.
