March 26th, 2000: Two years earlier, Eric Seymour had told me that a pink whitewater kayak proudly displayed in his dorm room on the "Outdoor Discovery" floor at Western State College would change my life. Now, as I watch Eric ride the pink "Devil" wide-eyed and backward over the most horrific looking horizon line I have ever seen, I finally realize what he meant. I’m going to watch him die!
Scampering/stumbling down the bank, my mind swirls between horror, sadness, and anger. “What the fuck are we doing here? We have absolutely no business being on this river,” I say just as I hear the first "Hoot!" Cresting the granite bluff, I see Eric in the pool below, hovering over his pink vessel and waving his black paddle like an…
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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2020