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[Allan Cheateaux]

Knee/shin pads, booties and gloves. As I am prone to do during periods of excitement, the Poudre here in NOCO showed small signs of life this past week, so I ran out the door. Excited about flows in the 300 range... it must have been a crap winter...

Get to the put in, suiting up and realize I am missing some shit. Ahhh, the shake out run.

That being said, I have some lovely bruises on both legs, holes in my goretex trail runners (what's a guy to do? I wanted to paddle) and some cuts on my hands.

Match that with a big effing smile and you have one stoked Allan... White water season kids!