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Ocoee Trip Report
by Nick David

Contributed 05/29/2005  Responses:  0

Satuday May 28 myself, Adrian Tambor, Kenny Eicher, and two other boaters John and Ryan (Dont know their last names sorry) ran the Upper and Middle Section of the Ocoee. After a long drive through the rain on the way the weather cleared for a very enventful day. After running shuttle we carried across the bridge at the Olympic center and put on just above the Olympic course. Kenny and I were the the only boaters which had experience on the Ocoee. After putting on we stopped at Smileys played for may be 15 minutes and moved on. I led the way down most of the course, however both Ryan and John were struggling through the course rolling very often. Finnaly at the bottom of Humongous Ryan flipped and dislocated his shoulder while attempting to roll. Luckily his gear was rounded up quickly he got out of the water without any problems. Miraculously Ryan popped his shoulder back and after about 30min of rest continued to paddle the rest of the day. On the middle we had no trouble until we reached Double Suck where both John and Ryan ran poor lines and John was trashed in the hole resulting in a swim and bloddy nose. We managed to avoid any other problems the rest of the day however and hospital stays were avoided.