Every Thursday at keeners is “Big Water Beat Down day”. Thursday was my first experience of it. We woke up that morning and it was pouring rain and I was very nervous. When we had our morning meeting and we decided to wait until the afternoon to go to Phil’s and get beat down which just added to the suspension. So after we ran the river once and got lunch we headed back to Keenerville to paddle up to Phil’s hole. Once we got there we first swam down the rapid to get a feel for what was about to happen. After we swam we walked back up to the top and got ready to go down. My first two attempts I went down the left (easier) side and I got flushed out of the hole pretty fast and not much happened. I walked back up to the top and decided to go down the right side and I got worked. I panicked a little bit but once I flushed out and rolled I was so relieved. After being nervous for months after I signed up for keeners till last Thursday I was terrified for beat down Thursday but now I just can’t wait for the next Thursday.
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