Looked like an average day on the river...😊

Your buddy did a great job of staying with you and not allowing you to flip him also. Stay calm and ride it on your back feet first is what they say but it's never quite that simple.

A friend in need is a friend indeed - Kamala Harris

Love you and miss you, Mr Hopper. I hope you are doing well!

You have a lot of stuff dangling off your person. Not a good idea

Flush drowning are a real thing on fast, continuous and cold rivers. This was yikes for a lot of reasons

Your skill is to low for this.

such a swim! y

sad

Damn. You don’t know how rough this was unless you’ve been through something similar. Glad your friend was there to lend a safety boat and didn’t give up. That could have been tragic

nice Go Pro!

kook beater

OMG, that was a horrible swim !! I've had a few bad ones, but nothing like this.. I won't mess with that section of Clear Creek.

at the beginning when you first tipped, was the current so strong it kept sucking you back into the waterfall?

ljudi su kod nas slabo upućeni da vide sta je lepota ovog vrlo extremnog i vrlo opasnog sporta,ali ja kajak i ako imam 45 i dalje volim lsto kao i kao klinac ( JER KAD PROLAZIM PADOVE PUKOVE JA IMAM OSECAJ DA STARIM ALI KADA PRODNEM I OKRENEM SE TO JE NABOJ EMOCIJA I OSEĆAM SE MLADNIM 15 GODINA) I NP. SVAKA ČAST MOMCI A NA SNIMKU

Interesting choice of water to paddle at your skill level

Any boater that has not been through it already, owes it to themselves and their fellow paddlers/rowers to attend a Swiftwater Rescue Technician course. It may very well save your life or someone else's life some day. If you can afford the gear to float, you can afford the training to stay alive while doing it. Rescuers hate nothing more than to have to make a death notice to families. Think about it.

Never. Wear. Paddling. Gloves…beatering will ensue

Dang reminds me of call of duty

Holy shit, I don't know if it was your skills or your mindset, but you were NOT ready for that river that day. Oh well. I'm sure I'm only so far from a swim that bad.

should have never been on the river

Spooky swim. Continuous cold western water is no joke.

just another lovely day on the river.....

I can empathise... There wasn't much let up

Look around. Understand that the very people and civilization you are here to rescue from themselves are also, temporarily at least, and through no real fault of their own, our sworn enemies.

Thank you for sharing this!

That's me bill. There's a cave next to it. Iv swam out of there.

9 years ago, hope your skills are greatly improved now. That was brutal to watch. I knew it was going to be ugly from the beginning. When you rocked the bank twice. Before you even got started. Live and learn. Keep on paddling.

It's all fun until you come outta the boat... Then you realize you have very little control over what happens, if any at all.

Damn don't get any breaks in there

I'm on a spree watching white kayak rescues and ya'll are mental. Haha. I have minimal raft experience but spend quite bit of time on my Surfski in open water. Im always amazed just how powerful water is. You don't realize it until you've been in a spot where you have no control, and that doesn't much, haha. Feeling hopeless, being swept away by water is a humbling experience.

That was very scary…..I felt like I was drowning watching it….hope you are ok!

Yooo that was some serious current.

That was a solid 9.8 on the pucker factor 👏 from here.

Floats past eddy while adjusting camera

crazy this fucker still pitching too

i bet you a beast now a days but yea this looked above the pay grade at the time for yea sometimes you got to get wet to learn though glad you good

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Very easy to get out from in multiple points but just wildly inexperienced. That's really the only reason there was any trouble to begin with. You can see it before the fall he just has no idea what to do.

swim tails on 'rescue' boat can help initial grab.

Man, as a paddler, that was painful to watch.

That was rough my guy. Glad you made it.

All ya can do is keep ya head up feet up and facing downstream. Hope ya didn’t swallow to much water with your pride.

Was that blood at 4:45?

As a clear creek guide let me just ask why the hell did you not swim for shore? My number one advice to you and anyone else that boats clear creek in any craft. If you swim you get the f*** out of the water as fast as possible.

That river is way above your pay grade 🤔

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Ridiculous.

Get me a beginner and a GoPro, and I'm gonna have a KZbin it. The first 30 seconds show so much inept paddling.... That's it. I'm out faster than this fucker was out of his boat.

I believe that river is a bit above his skill level.... That's a river that you have to stay in your boat....