Day in the Life of a Week One Beatdown by Noah Levin

After waking up at 7:30 and completing our morning stretches, all keeners returned to their cabins for breakfast. In Robertson’s we enjoyed breakfast burritos with eggs, cheese, and bacon. After completing our dishes and making our beds, we headed back to the Thunderdome. After choosing our preferred dinner for the night, Coach Tyler and Steven gave us some tips about being beat down before we put our gear on. Once we were finally on the water, we started to do some roll drills. These involved a fully vertical paddle roll and a spinning roll. After the warm up we hiked over to Mccoys. Upon scouting the line, each keener swam down the rapid which was not as bad as I initially thought it would be. We then hiked back up to our boats for our first beat down. I ended up going into left-side Phil’s getting my first beat down — certainly an experience. My boat ended up getting swept downstream after my swim so it was a little bit of a hassle to get it back. We then went down the Lorne and enjoyed a chicken-wrap lunch. After lunch the group split in two, one half learning to swim in pourovers and the other half surfing the Garborator wave. After a lengthy session at the Lorne, we headed down the rest of the river to Wilderness Tours, marking the end of our day.