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Flying Squirrel line
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| Account | Nice Picture from the 2006 Green Race. Cooper runs the "Flying Squirrel" double-boof line on the far river left side of Pencil Sharpener. Photographer unknown. Notice the swimmer just out of frame being rescued -- in the nick of time -- directly above The Notch. Some of that rescue action is viewable late in this Green Race Movie Trailer. Not to belabor a common point, but it pays to have your throw rope ready if you're "out and about". Somebody did for this guy, and he saved that swimmer's ass. Unquestionably, without a person with a rope right there and ready to use it, the swimmer would have gone through The Notch and over Gorilla. No two ways about it. In 2011, two or three ropes were tossed to a fella in a similar predicament but further downstream towards the inevitable. Too late, and he swam the Monkey, perhaps thinking at the time that his situation was becoming highly suboptimal. Things worked out ok I'm assuming as I heard no reports to the contrary. |
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| Time | 2006-11-04 17:00:00 GMT |
| Reported Date | 11/04/06 |
| River Reported | @Green 2. Green Narrows |
| Reporter | Author of report John Pilson Asheville, NC |
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Flying Squirrel line
Crowd Shot at 2006 Race
Chicken at Gorilla
Fisheye Racers 2006
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