What was your worst river trip?

[RitcheyRch]

Ended up in the Blythe Hospital with back pain and found out it was kidney stones.

[78Southwind]

Ended up in the Blythe Hospital with back pain and found out it was kidney stones.

Kidney Stones Sux...

[Jet-Daytona]

The trip when all three of my Daytonas sank.

[Stainless]

The trip when all three of my Daytonas sank.

Details please? :p


CH3NO2

[SBS933]

I just got with my girlfriend and went to Parker in April, then sat at the casino for 3 days till the wind died. We got one day on the water. I'll never river it in April or Memorial Day, I've been getting screwed with bad weather on Memorial since the late 70s. Three bad trips and never again.

[Stainless]

I just got with my girlfriend and went to Parker in April, then sat at the casino for 3 days till the wind died. We got one day on the water. I'll never river it in April or Memorial Day, I've been getting screwed with bad weather on Memorial since the late 70s. Three bad trips and never again.

Wind is worse thing that happened to me also, one trip I got on water one day out of four.


CH3NO2

[78Southwind]

One of my worse trips was back in 89 or 90...

I went to bullhead with four of my friends on 4th of July week. We decide to make a run in the Southwind to Havasu from Topock. We make it down to Havasu and everything is fine for the first couple of hours. We decide to go and check out Copper Canyon and it's a cluster. We are all trying to protect the boat but it's getting banged up and one of my buddys slip and gets burnt by the headers. He's ok nothing a couple beers won't fix.

Next we decide to go to Crazy Horse and on our way we race another jet boat (yeah right with 5 people in the boat). Well while we're racing a gas cap goes flying off one of the saddle tanks. Another buddy of mine puts his shirt into the tank so the water won't get into the tank. We finally get to Crazy Horse have a couple beers and decide to head back up to Topock. Well shit the boat won't start (stretched timing chain or something like that). After messing with the boat for a while I decide that I will take a taxi back to Topock get the truck/trailer and pick up my boat and the rest of the party at the LH Marina Launch ramp. While I am getting the truck my friends will have someone tow them to the Marina.

I get to Topock and I have barely enough money to pay the taxi. I pull the trailer back to Havasu and wait in this crazy line (3 hour wait) at LH Marina to pick up my friends and the boat. I get to the launch ramp and no ones there. I have no clue what to do, we didn't have cell phones back then. So I just drive around the Island and about an hour later I see two of my friends out in front of Crazy Horse. I am like, I told you guys to get a tow to LH Marina but they didn't know any better i guess and they got a tow to the Crazy Horse Marina. Here's the funny thing Crazy Horse wouldn't let them or myself into Crazy Horse without paying. None of us have any money so we are screwed. About an hour later, I flag down a cop and ask if he could work something out with Crazy Horse for us. The cop tells them to let us in to pick up the rest of our friends and boat. They finally agree.

By the time I get to the boat it's early morning (around 3AM) and the both of the friends that stayed with the boat are drunk and pissed at everyone. The worse thing though is that all the beers are gone, so I can't even have a beer after all the bullshit I have been through or buy one. Well I get back home and nobody helps with any of the gas for the trip. WTF...