My Saturday:

Involved some pretty fun whitewater rafting on the North Branch of the Potomac River up near Luke, Maryland. Nothing crazy for the whitewater, but my buddy owns his own NRS Otter 130 and we've been looking to put together a group of solid paddlers to take on some larger stuff, so it was a good flesh-out run with my buddy Jae to make sure he's up to the effort to do things like the Upper Yough and Cheat Canyon. One of the great things about the North Branch Potomac is that it's a dam release, so you always know when there's going to be enough water to run it thanks to the ACoE release schedule. One of the bad things about the North Branch is that the dam releases from the bottom meaning it's always balls cold and wet suits are pretty much necessary. Anyway, whenever we take someone on the trip, we make them do the cliff jumping at blue hole. Today was my buddy's first time with us, so he did the 30-footer. The video is on my youtube and facebook pages, but I won't link because I already got a "strike" for language on FB (thanks... mod who thinks he's funny!) and there is an F-bomb in it thanks to my buddy Fred. Of course, you can PM me too and I'll shoot you a link. Anyway, it's a good vid of a fat guy jumping off a cliff and making a big splash.

Otherwise, great day on the river, some fun big-water near the middle of the run, and got to eat lunch while sunning on a rock in the middle of the river.

That's awesome. I haven't whitewater rafted in years. I miss it.

I also visited a place called the Blue hole this weekend, but it was at Albert Pike in Arkansas.

Here's the view from on top of the mountain.