The Gutter

The past few days we have been running the Payette River. At the end of the Payette, there is this awesome place that a power company created, which is called "the Gutter." 3/4 of the river is blocked and the other 1/4 of the river is this cement park that has four parts to it. There is four different slides that create waves and holes... which by the way is really cool. The way it works is that there is this giant inflatable tube (like a bike tube) runnning across 3/4 of the river which is called the bladder. The inflation rate of the Bladder controls how many of the slides are holes or waves. All of the times we were at the Gutter, 2 of the slides were waves and the other 1 was a hole. The other hole was not in because how the bladder was inflated. So the third slide that was a hole which was not to sticky hole that if you swam or flipped you would not stay in it. Also the Gutter is known for being able to boogie board in the hole. So we got 2 boogie boards and surfed in the hole. What you did is you ran from the side of the river in to the hole and you would stay in there and you could sit there... it was really cool. So we spent alot of time there the the last day. We just sat there and boogie boarded and surfed-- it was tons of fun. Also on the last day of the trip we did a service project on the Gutter where we picked up all the trash (and there was alot of trash). We also wanted to put a trash can down there, so we got a trash can and metal chain and padlock. But then we thought if we were to chain up the trash can the company that owns the Gutter might just take it down and throw it away. So we decided to get Sean and Kristin to ask the power company if it would be ok if we did that. The gutter was UNBELIVELIBELY FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.