Kayaking the Buffalo Videos

This is the morning after the rain, a video of our campsite (Jim's Bluff) and the flooded river.

This is J "showering" off in Hemmed-in-Hollow".

This is J rescuing our kayaks after the river rose.

This is the power of Hemmed-in-Hollow after a hard rain. My guesstimate would be that there were at least 40 mph gusts coming off of the waterfall. If you watched the waterfall you could see water drops on the outside of the column of water being pushed back up the fall because of the air that the waterfall was pushing back up the hollow.

Here is J trying his hand at withstanding the waterfall.

Here is the section of river that we eventually got out of after we got dumped. This middle of the river is fast flowing but the rapids arent terrible, but what is dangerous are the trees and rocks that are normally on the banks are now acting like a strainer with very fast moving water flowing through them on the edges of the river.

Here is our campsite Fri night.

And here is the river bend and the fallen tree. With the river flowing as fast as it was, there isn't a ton of time to get out of the current and to a gravel bar before that tree gets you.