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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:37,373 --> 00:01:38,477 - We're gonna start approaching this boil, 2 00:01:38,512 --> 00:01:41,825 hold that line, just nice calm strokes, 3 00:01:41,860 --> 00:01:43,758 good thoughtful strokes hold that line, 4 00:01:43,793 --> 00:01:46,623 hold that line, fight the spin, fight the spin. 5 00:01:48,625 --> 00:01:51,628 You're good, hard left, hard left, hard right, hard right, 6 00:01:51,663 --> 00:01:53,182 hard right, hard right. 7 00:01:53,216 --> 00:01:55,943 Charge, charge, left turn, left turn, 8 00:01:55,977 --> 00:01:58,842 you're good, you're good, charge, charge! 9 00:02:17,344 --> 00:02:19,484 - Dad, they don't fit in the same bag. 10 00:02:19,518 --> 00:02:21,002 - I know, they just 11 00:02:21,037 --> 00:02:23,177 fit differently in the same bag. 12 00:02:26,732 --> 00:02:31,116 Now I got all my, all my gels in this bag. 13 00:02:35,016 --> 00:02:37,881 Uh-oh I missed, oh no, that's somethin' else. 14 00:02:37,916 --> 00:02:39,745 Hmmm? 15 00:02:39,780 --> 00:02:40,539 What? 16 00:02:40,574 --> 00:02:41,713 - This is a gel. 17 00:02:43,266 --> 00:02:44,336 - It is? 18 00:02:48,375 --> 00:02:49,548 Let me see it. 19 00:02:52,241 --> 00:02:53,345 Ah! 20 00:02:53,380 --> 00:02:55,244 Okay, that's Erik Kayaker. 21 00:02:56,762 --> 00:02:58,316 - Get some glasses? 22 00:02:58,350 --> 00:02:59,765 - And then I'm gonna stay home, 23 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,423 and I'm gonna send this guy in my stead. 24 00:03:04,253 --> 00:03:05,392 Is that cool? 25 00:03:05,426 --> 00:03:06,703 - Here you go. 26 00:03:06,738 --> 00:03:07,980 Put some glasses on him? 27 00:03:12,709 --> 00:03:15,367 Why is the neck so huge? 28 00:03:18,474 --> 00:03:20,407 We're gonna keep Erik home. 29 00:03:20,441 --> 00:03:22,063 - Little Erik is ready to go. 30 00:03:24,169 --> 00:03:26,689 All right, so one side of me 31 00:03:26,723 --> 00:03:30,348 is very sad because I'm leaving my family, 32 00:03:30,382 --> 00:03:34,110 leaving my wife, leaving my kids, but I'm also ready 33 00:03:34,144 --> 00:03:38,563 to go because I've been training for a long time, 34 00:03:38,597 --> 00:03:41,462 I've been kayaking for six years I mean its time to go. 35 00:03:41,497 --> 00:03:43,257 Sure about this? 36 00:03:43,292 --> 00:03:44,569 - Has anyone told you Erik, that your shirts inside out? 37 00:03:45,328 --> 00:03:46,364 - Is it? 38 00:03:46,398 --> 00:03:48,366 - Yes. - Oh. 39 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,609 - Well we can put the boat up first and then you can-- 40 00:03:50,644 --> 00:03:51,645 - No, I can't. 41 00:03:51,679 --> 00:03:52,715 - All right. 42 00:03:55,131 --> 00:03:56,270 - It's annoying. 43 00:03:57,651 --> 00:03:59,549 - This is my second catch in like a week. 44 00:04:00,343 --> 00:04:02,172 - I first met Erik on a trip. 45 00:04:02,207 --> 00:04:05,141 We had a bunch of blind and sighted youth, 46 00:04:05,175 --> 00:04:07,937 kids that were kinda coming down on their adventure 47 00:04:07,971 --> 00:04:10,836 and Erik was kinda the mentor of that group. 48 00:04:12,321 --> 00:04:15,151 And throughout the trip, you know we thought it would be fun 49 00:04:15,185 --> 00:04:17,326 to just get in the ducky and play around so I started 50 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,294 tooting a whistle for Erik and he'd follow me through 51 00:04:20,329 --> 00:04:21,985 and, and we had a lot of fun. 52 00:04:22,020 --> 00:04:22,986 It was great. 53 00:04:23,021 --> 00:04:24,678 And uh, you know it's like, this is cool! 54 00:04:24,712 --> 00:04:27,267 And I remember floating one point downstream 55 00:04:27,301 --> 00:04:29,648 with Erik after a rapid just side by side, you know 56 00:04:29,683 --> 00:04:31,340 and chattin' and, 57 00:04:31,374 --> 00:04:32,858 the idea came up like, "Man we should, 58 00:04:32,893 --> 00:04:35,344 "you should come kayak the whole Grand Canyon some time." 59 00:04:35,378 --> 00:04:38,347 And that sounded like a great idea. 60 00:04:43,075 --> 00:04:45,768 All right, it's actually happening, you guys. 61 00:04:45,802 --> 00:04:46,665 Whoo! 62 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:48,115 We're going on a river trip. 63 00:04:48,149 --> 00:04:50,220 I know, it's hard to believe. 64 00:04:50,255 --> 00:04:52,671 Um, so you guys I just kinda wanted to talk about- 65 00:04:52,706 --> 00:04:54,363 - The Grand Canyon is Harlan's home, 66 00:04:54,397 --> 00:04:57,055 so he feels so comfortable in this environment. 67 00:04:58,332 --> 00:05:01,024 And it's really cool to see somebody like that, 68 00:05:01,059 --> 00:05:03,372 in a way, he's like a, like a river Yoda. 69 00:05:03,406 --> 00:05:04,649 - Then you guys, we can, 70 00:05:04,683 --> 00:05:06,720 let's uh haul our boats down a little bit and we 71 00:05:06,754 --> 00:05:08,377 can spread out a little bit. 72 00:05:08,411 --> 00:05:10,310 Here ya go bud, I'll take ya over to your boat. 73 00:05:10,344 --> 00:05:11,103 - Thanks. 74 00:05:17,558 --> 00:05:19,353 - I'll let ya get naked and then I'll come back. 75 00:05:19,388 --> 00:05:20,181 - Okay. 76 00:05:25,877 --> 00:05:27,154 - I'll grab your paddle. 77 00:05:27,188 --> 00:05:28,466 - All right. 78 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:30,019 - And wanna sorta flip 79 00:05:30,053 --> 00:05:33,850 this around so here in the front, so I'll have you spin. 80 00:05:38,061 --> 00:05:40,512 Keep going, little bit further. 81 00:05:42,549 --> 00:05:43,515 Yep. 82 00:05:43,550 --> 00:05:45,172 - Do you want me to lead? - Sure. 83 00:05:45,206 --> 00:05:46,173 - All right. 84 00:05:46,207 --> 00:05:47,519 - I just, I mean you got the bow. 85 00:05:47,554 --> 00:05:50,280 A small lap, okay? 86 00:05:51,420 --> 00:05:53,663 Just I say, you don't wanna go, okay. 87 00:05:53,698 --> 00:05:54,940 - Up to you, bro. 88 00:05:54,975 --> 00:05:56,563 - Uh, Erik, why don't you go left. 89 00:06:01,602 --> 00:06:02,396 Left a little further. 90 00:06:02,431 --> 00:06:03,604 - Yeah. 91 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:06,296 - And right down to the water. 92 00:06:09,265 --> 00:06:10,715 Perfect. 93 00:06:10,749 --> 00:06:11,750 At the water's edge. 94 00:06:13,614 --> 00:06:15,375 Hey, Erik? 95 00:06:15,409 --> 00:06:17,549 I've got your, uh helmet here. 96 00:06:17,584 --> 00:06:21,519 Now is this the one with the new, oh guess what? 97 00:06:21,553 --> 00:06:22,968 There's no headset. 98 00:06:23,003 --> 00:06:24,625 Oh no here it is. 99 00:06:24,660 --> 00:06:26,627 - Yeah there's a headset, its tucked in there, yeah. 100 00:06:26,662 --> 00:06:27,732 - So Erik, did you guys 101 00:06:27,766 --> 00:06:30,735 figure out the uh, helmets. 102 00:06:30,769 --> 00:06:31,529 - Yeah. 103 00:06:31,563 --> 00:06:32,944 - Cool. 104 00:06:32,978 --> 00:06:33,945 - Yeah, is yours attached? 105 00:06:33,979 --> 00:06:35,429 - Yep, I'm attached. 106 00:06:35,464 --> 00:06:36,637 I'm gonna get dressed and then we can turn this thing 107 00:06:36,672 --> 00:06:37,949 on and see how it works. 108 00:06:39,744 --> 00:06:41,159 - Harlan always wear a collared shirt 109 00:06:41,193 --> 00:06:43,126 underneath his dry jacket. 110 00:06:44,783 --> 00:06:47,407 - You always wear a collared shirt to the office, don't ya? 111 00:06:49,167 --> 00:06:50,306 - How you feeling? 112 00:06:50,340 --> 00:06:51,445 - Really good man. 113 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,136 I feel great. 114 00:06:53,171 --> 00:06:55,138 - Been running around. 115 00:06:55,173 --> 00:06:56,554 - Yeah, that's good. 116 00:06:56,588 --> 00:06:58,590 This is, this is, you know the nice thing about this 117 00:06:58,625 --> 00:07:02,318 right now thought is, you shove off of here, and then 118 00:07:02,352 --> 00:07:04,320 we're packed this is what we do, right? 119 00:07:04,354 --> 00:07:05,114 - Yeah. 120 00:07:05,148 --> 00:07:06,046 - We're in our element. 121 00:07:07,392 --> 00:07:08,980 This is what we've been training for. 122 00:07:22,476 --> 00:07:23,788 - Good luck, you guys! 123 00:07:39,355 --> 00:07:41,495 - Yeah we're doing it, fellas. 124 00:07:41,530 --> 00:07:43,739 We're in the Grand Canyon. 125 00:07:50,746 --> 00:07:52,989 - The Grand Canyon white water 126 00:07:53,024 --> 00:07:56,372 is very unique because of it's sheer volume. 127 00:07:56,406 --> 00:07:58,685 You get these massive hydraulics, you get boils 128 00:07:58,719 --> 00:07:59,824 and whirlpools. 129 00:08:08,039 --> 00:08:10,144 The Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon 130 00:08:10,179 --> 00:08:12,561 is known for big iconic rapids. 131 00:08:23,917 --> 00:08:26,333 These rapids are spaced out intermittently, 132 00:08:26,367 --> 00:08:28,680 and in between them are these long, calm sections, 133 00:08:28,715 --> 00:08:29,923 these long pools. 134 00:08:31,407 --> 00:08:34,272 The biggest of all of these rapids is Lava Falls. 135 00:08:35,584 --> 00:08:38,518 A lotta people get offline and they make big mistakes 136 00:08:38,552 --> 00:08:41,279 in Lava because you can't really see where you're going. 137 00:08:47,941 --> 00:08:50,564 It's a lot of anticipation leading up to each rapid. 138 00:09:01,161 --> 00:09:02,956 - Small left. 139 00:09:04,302 --> 00:09:05,096 Perfect. 140 00:09:08,789 --> 00:09:09,549 Small right. 141 00:09:11,447 --> 00:09:12,793 Small right again. 142 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:16,866 - Hearing Harlan's voice, 143 00:09:16,901 --> 00:09:18,696 it goes beyond just information, like this 144 00:09:18,730 --> 00:09:22,596 soothing voice is there that's saying, 145 00:09:22,631 --> 00:09:24,253 "I'm right here next to you." 146 00:09:24,287 --> 00:09:26,393 - There you go, nice easy forward strokes, 147 00:09:26,427 --> 00:09:28,809 nothing too hard right here. 148 00:09:28,844 --> 00:09:29,603 Perfect. 149 00:09:39,993 --> 00:09:41,581 Perfect, small left, 150 00:09:44,514 --> 00:09:47,828 just nice and loose, be, let it be keep clear and calm 151 00:09:47,863 --> 00:09:49,450 in the moment. 152 00:09:49,485 --> 00:09:53,454 Clear calm head creates nice, decisive, good action. 153 00:09:53,489 --> 00:09:55,802 - The beginning rapids are less intimidating. 154 00:09:55,836 --> 00:09:57,597 The Grand Canyon has this nice 155 00:09:57,631 --> 00:10:01,117 build towards these massive rapids in the inner gorge. 156 00:10:02,671 --> 00:10:04,673 - We're doing good we're lined up perfectly. 157 00:10:04,707 --> 00:10:07,641 So we're going to be entering the tongue here. 158 00:10:07,676 --> 00:10:09,643 Nice forward paddles now. 159 00:10:09,678 --> 00:10:14,406 Hold that line, we're kinda coming into a bigger waves. 160 00:10:17,893 --> 00:10:20,309 - I mapped this place, I know each day. 161 00:10:20,343 --> 00:10:23,346 I know where the big rapids are, I've studied 'em. 162 00:10:23,381 --> 00:10:26,556 Horn, and Granite and Hermit leading all 163 00:10:26,591 --> 00:10:31,044 the way up to the granddaddy of them all, which is Lava. 164 00:10:32,597 --> 00:10:34,288 And even though I've just started, Lava's never 165 00:10:34,323 --> 00:10:35,635 out of my mind. 166 00:10:35,669 --> 00:10:37,844 It's always there at the edge. 167 00:10:50,926 --> 00:10:54,999 I got invited to this recreational program, 168 00:10:55,033 --> 00:10:57,795 and my dad would drive me like three hours 169 00:10:57,829 --> 00:10:59,693 up to this program. 170 00:10:59,728 --> 00:11:01,902 And once a month they would take us out 171 00:11:01,937 --> 00:11:03,904 doing different sports. 172 00:11:03,939 --> 00:11:06,804 They'd take us canoeing, and sailing 173 00:11:06,838 --> 00:11:08,702 and tandem biking and one weekend they took us 174 00:11:08,737 --> 00:11:10,048 rock climbing. 175 00:11:10,083 --> 00:11:12,879 And I was climbing up this beautiful granite face, 176 00:11:12,913 --> 00:11:16,572 and I couldn't see the rock but I could use my hands 177 00:11:16,606 --> 00:11:18,367 and my feet as my eyes. 178 00:11:19,230 --> 00:11:21,232 And I could feel all of the little, like patterns, 179 00:11:21,266 --> 00:11:24,925 all of the little features in the rock and it was so wild 180 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,065 because it was like, sorta connecting the dots, 181 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:29,999 like this, sorta puzzle that I couldn't see but I could, 182 00:11:30,034 --> 00:11:32,830 I could sort of figure out how to decipher it 183 00:11:32,864 --> 00:11:34,555 with my hands. 184 00:11:34,590 --> 00:11:37,524 It's just full on engagement and I got to the 185 00:11:37,558 --> 00:11:40,907 top of that rock face and I just remember thinking that 186 00:11:40,941 --> 00:11:42,391 this is the opposite of what 187 00:11:42,425 --> 00:11:44,048 I thought blindness would be like. 188 00:11:49,122 --> 00:11:50,917 It was probably in my late 20s 189 00:11:50,951 --> 00:11:53,160 that I started thinking about Everest. 190 00:12:00,581 --> 00:12:02,894 It's not like in the movies where like, you go climbing 191 00:12:02,929 --> 00:12:04,793 the first time, and then you're like, "I'm gonna stand 192 00:12:04,827 --> 00:12:06,795 "on the top of Everest someday." 193 00:12:06,829 --> 00:12:09,798 You know, it's, it's a long process. 194 00:12:11,178 --> 00:12:12,904 When I got to Everest, 195 00:12:12,939 --> 00:12:16,805 I felt in over my head most of the time. 196 00:12:18,807 --> 00:12:19,877 - Okay if anything happens 197 00:12:19,911 --> 00:12:22,845 just take a big deep breath, all right? 198 00:12:28,989 --> 00:12:30,784 - Too far, too far. 199 00:12:30,819 --> 00:12:32,337 - It's a narrow ladder, Erik. 200 00:12:36,790 --> 00:12:37,549 - Like that. 201 00:12:40,173 --> 00:12:43,038 And some guy, this dude Sandy came in today. 202 00:12:44,971 --> 00:12:48,008 He didn't know I was in the tent, he didn't know I was 203 00:12:48,043 --> 00:12:51,978 sitting right here, and he goes, "Well, you guys are 204 00:12:52,012 --> 00:12:55,809 "gonna have a hell of a time getting the blind guy up there. 205 00:12:55,844 --> 00:12:57,811 "You guys have your work cut out for ya." 206 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,300 - What'd that make you feel like, Erik? 207 00:13:05,854 --> 00:13:07,027 - Um. 208 00:13:07,062 --> 00:13:09,823 Half of me thought, "Oh shit. 209 00:13:09,858 --> 00:13:11,273 "It must be really hard." 210 00:13:11,307 --> 00:13:14,034 The other half of me said, "I'm gonna prove him wrong." 211 00:13:14,863 --> 00:13:16,623 - That's the spirit. 212 00:13:19,005 --> 00:13:20,040 We're gonna do it, Erik. 213 00:13:20,075 --> 00:13:20,972 - All right. 214 00:13:21,007 --> 00:13:21,801 - [Rob We'll pull-- 215 00:13:23,078 --> 00:13:27,116 - I needed to kinda really force myself 216 00:13:27,151 --> 00:13:29,153 to believe that this thing was possible. 217 00:13:32,052 --> 00:13:33,916 - Good job buddy, you did it! 218 00:13:35,228 --> 00:13:36,746 You did it. 219 00:13:36,781 --> 00:13:38,645 You proved everybody wrong. 220 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:39,439 - Okay. 221 00:13:53,108 --> 00:13:54,005 - Dude, how's it feel? 222 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,179 - I feel good now. 223 00:13:56,076 --> 00:13:57,388 So I'm on that high-- 224 00:13:57,422 --> 00:13:58,147 - Congratulations! 225 00:13:58,182 --> 00:13:59,321 - Thank you. 226 00:13:59,355 --> 00:14:01,910 When one of my teammates pulls me aside, 227 00:14:01,944 --> 00:14:04,567 and he said, "Hey Erik do me a favor. 228 00:14:04,602 --> 00:14:06,052 "Don't let this mountain be the greatest thing 229 00:14:06,086 --> 00:14:07,053 "you ever do." 230 00:14:09,365 --> 00:14:10,263 What else is there? 231 00:14:10,297 --> 00:14:11,851 Like where do I go from here? 232 00:14:21,377 --> 00:14:23,069 - It's plenty deep. - Okay. 233 00:14:23,103 --> 00:14:24,104 - Let me have your hand. 234 00:14:24,139 --> 00:14:25,312 - All right. - Now I want you to go 235 00:14:25,347 --> 00:14:28,212 all the way as far as you can, and then snap up. 236 00:14:34,908 --> 00:14:35,598 How's that feel? 237 00:14:35,633 --> 00:14:36,392 - Cold. 238 00:14:37,807 --> 00:14:38,601 - Go for it. 239 00:14:38,636 --> 00:14:39,568 - One, two, three. 240 00:14:53,962 --> 00:14:56,067 - Erik asked me to teach him how to roll 241 00:14:56,102 --> 00:15:00,313 and I had no idea it was gonna lead to other things. 242 00:15:00,347 --> 00:15:04,075 Um, started kayaking rivers. 243 00:15:04,110 --> 00:15:05,939 - Start paddling forward, 244 00:15:05,974 --> 00:15:07,734 we're gonna do an eddy peel out, good good. 245 00:15:07,768 --> 00:15:09,115 Stay with it, no not yet! 246 00:15:10,081 --> 00:15:12,773 Little further, and eddy peel out. 247 00:15:14,879 --> 00:15:16,605 We're gonna do the rooster tail this time. 248 00:15:24,716 --> 00:15:25,510 Hold that line. 249 00:15:30,136 --> 00:15:33,587 Paddle forward, small right, left, small left. 250 00:15:33,622 --> 00:15:34,347 Sorry. 251 00:15:34,381 --> 00:15:35,624 Good. 252 00:15:35,658 --> 00:15:39,490 Hold that line, hold that line, small right. 253 00:15:40,974 --> 00:15:41,733 Charge! 254 00:15:46,290 --> 00:15:47,877 - When you flip over in your kayak, 255 00:15:47,912 --> 00:15:48,982 your basic instinct 256 00:15:50,501 --> 00:15:52,986 is just to pull that spray skirt and swim for your life, 257 00:15:53,021 --> 00:15:54,781 you gotta try to roll. 258 00:15:54,815 --> 00:15:57,508 You're way safer inside your boat than you are 259 00:15:57,542 --> 00:15:58,992 out of your boat. 260 00:16:00,166 --> 00:16:02,962 But when I would flip over I would just panic. 261 00:16:11,694 --> 00:16:15,698 How come I started having unsettled stomach problems, 262 00:16:16,699 --> 00:16:18,149 as soon as it seemed to coincide 263 00:16:18,184 --> 00:16:19,737 when I started learning to kayak? 264 00:16:46,419 --> 00:16:50,009 - Now this feels like a river trip! 265 00:16:54,461 --> 00:16:56,705 - Wow, look at that. 266 00:17:00,709 --> 00:17:01,917 - Is that you? 267 00:17:03,781 --> 00:17:06,163 - I'd just like a hot shower right now. 268 00:17:06,197 --> 00:17:11,202 Come feel this. 269 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:13,204 - Erik? 270 00:17:18,278 --> 00:17:19,659 Here, in this area 271 00:17:22,110 --> 00:17:24,077 is okay, not the greatest. 272 00:17:25,734 --> 00:17:26,942 - This is a table. 273 00:17:26,976 --> 00:17:30,118 - What's pass this, up here? 274 00:17:30,152 --> 00:17:31,809 Here we go. 275 00:17:31,843 --> 00:17:33,742 Ammo can. - Tell her we're supposed to go this way now. 276 00:17:33,776 --> 00:17:35,399 - Miscellany. - Miscellaneous. 277 00:17:35,433 --> 00:17:37,090 That's my water bottle. 278 00:17:38,471 --> 00:17:42,233 - Look at this tiny little thing, that's worthless. 279 00:17:49,137 --> 00:17:50,517 - All right. 280 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:54,073 - When I started thinking about kayaking, 281 00:17:54,107 --> 00:17:56,144 I was almost 40 years old. 282 00:17:56,178 --> 00:17:58,007 Everything, rivers were just so different from 283 00:17:58,042 --> 00:18:00,424 mountains, I thought, "This is a really vulnerable 284 00:18:00,458 --> 00:18:04,255 "spot, where you're like actually trying to embark on 285 00:18:04,290 --> 00:18:06,050 "something brand new, 286 00:18:07,258 --> 00:18:09,364 "and I don't know if I have it in me." 287 00:18:20,168 --> 00:18:21,686 I remember standing 288 00:18:21,721 --> 00:18:23,792 on the river that first time, listening to the rapids, 289 00:18:23,826 --> 00:18:25,483 thinking, "I climbed Mt. Everest 290 00:18:25,518 --> 00:18:28,037 "so why am I so fucking scared?" 291 00:18:35,907 --> 00:18:37,185 - Slide slide slide. 292 00:18:39,911 --> 00:18:41,361 All right. 293 00:18:41,396 --> 00:18:42,293 Nice. 294 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,209 - Sometimes I don't know why I stick with this. 295 00:19:01,243 --> 00:19:04,143 Partly it's because of my friends. 296 00:19:05,351 --> 00:19:06,800 They're not seeing this like little blind guy 297 00:19:06,835 --> 00:19:09,355 squirming in the corner, they're seeing something else 298 00:19:09,389 --> 00:19:11,495 and I wanna be that thing they see. 299 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,333 - Right turn again, 300 00:19:22,368 --> 00:19:24,197 okay forward paddle. 301 00:19:25,923 --> 00:19:27,200 There's gonna be one hit down here 302 00:19:27,235 --> 00:19:30,548 at the bottom I'll tell you about. 303 00:19:30,583 --> 00:19:32,205 Nice easy forward. 304 00:19:33,551 --> 00:19:36,692 Hold that line, charge on that. 305 00:20:09,277 --> 00:20:10,726 Fight that spin. 306 00:20:11,934 --> 00:20:13,004 There you go. 307 00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:17,250 Steadying out, fight that spin. 308 00:20:51,284 --> 00:20:53,459 - There are days I was learning, 309 00:20:53,493 --> 00:20:56,393 you know in a thousand hours of preparation. 310 00:20:56,427 --> 00:20:58,671 When I was flailing and bleeding and slamming into 311 00:20:58,705 --> 00:21:01,363 rocks and swimming through these rapids. 312 00:21:04,055 --> 00:21:08,301 I think it fed my ego to be the only blind kayaker 313 00:21:08,336 --> 00:21:10,199 out of seven billion people on Earth. 314 00:21:13,444 --> 00:21:14,687 Then I learned about Lonnie. 315 00:21:26,008 --> 00:21:27,907 - Yeah, go go go! 316 00:21:31,255 --> 00:21:32,049 Whoo! 317 00:21:33,395 --> 00:21:34,223 Yeah baby! 318 00:21:41,576 --> 00:21:43,681 Okay, you got the right speed? 319 00:21:43,716 --> 00:21:44,475 - Yeah. 320 00:21:44,510 --> 00:21:46,995 - Hard left, hard left. 321 00:21:47,029 --> 00:21:48,548 On me, on me. 322 00:21:48,583 --> 00:21:51,448 - As long as I can roll up as many times as I roll down, 323 00:21:51,482 --> 00:21:52,483 I'm golden. 324 00:21:56,038 --> 00:21:56,763 - Fair enough. 325 00:21:58,282 --> 00:22:00,319 - Chris and Seth and I met the summer 326 00:22:00,353 --> 00:22:01,423 for the first time. 327 00:22:04,046 --> 00:22:08,810 I don't know how they stay with me when I screw up but they do. 328 00:22:08,844 --> 00:22:10,190 - Lonnie! 329 00:22:10,225 --> 00:22:11,882 Sometimes I think I push them 330 00:22:11,916 --> 00:22:14,229 a little bit out of their comfort zone, 331 00:22:14,263 --> 00:22:15,541 if I'm trying a few things. 332 00:22:15,575 --> 00:22:17,888 But uh, so far it's worked. 333 00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:20,615 - Lonnie. 334 00:22:24,550 --> 00:22:26,724 - I mean bluntly kayaking is a dangerous sport 335 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:29,382 but you know for anyone who can see. 336 00:22:29,417 --> 00:22:32,281 There's things that can suck you down and hold 337 00:22:32,316 --> 00:22:34,594 you there until you, you drown. 338 00:22:34,629 --> 00:22:36,113 You can smash into rocks. 339 00:22:37,425 --> 00:22:40,497 And you can get flipped over and smash your head against 340 00:22:40,531 --> 00:22:43,534 an under water rock, you could get knocked out 341 00:22:43,569 --> 00:22:46,606 and be floating down the river unconscious. 342 00:22:46,641 --> 00:22:49,264 And then all that stuff is just multiplied, 343 00:22:49,298 --> 00:22:51,473 when you can't see any of it coming. 344 00:22:53,061 --> 00:22:55,097 I've slammed into some walls and things like that 345 00:22:55,132 --> 00:22:57,893 so, I, I don't really like to do that, so yeah. 346 00:22:59,447 --> 00:23:02,104 - You don't like to go careening into rock walls? 347 00:23:02,139 --> 00:23:04,590 - I've slammed into a few walls, yeah. 348 00:23:04,624 --> 00:23:06,730 Just like, dented my helmet, you know. 349 00:23:07,627 --> 00:23:09,629 And it's like I, it's almost good that you don't know 350 00:23:09,664 --> 00:23:10,734 it's coming, you know? 351 00:23:10,768 --> 00:23:12,874 'Cause then you just like bounce off. 352 00:23:12,908 --> 00:23:14,427 - Yeah. 353 00:23:14,462 --> 00:23:16,636 - And roll over and ahen hopefully roll back up, but. 354 00:23:17,844 --> 00:23:19,432 - Hey Erik, where you at man? 355 00:23:19,467 --> 00:23:20,606 - I'm right here. 356 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:21,469 - High, high five paddles. 357 00:23:21,503 --> 00:23:22,470 Talk to me. 358 00:23:22,504 --> 00:23:23,574 - All right hold on. 359 00:23:23,609 --> 00:23:25,162 - Here we come, I'm comin'. 360 00:23:25,196 --> 00:23:26,439 - Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. 361 00:23:26,474 --> 00:23:28,407 - Talk, talk, talk talk, yeah! 362 00:23:31,617 --> 00:23:32,756 - One more time. 363 00:23:32,790 --> 00:23:33,550 One, two, three. 364 00:23:33,584 --> 00:23:34,585 - Whoo! 365 00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:36,311 - Lower, lower. 366 00:23:36,345 --> 00:23:38,624 - Lower lower, okay hold on. - One, two, three. 367 00:23:38,658 --> 00:23:40,315 - Nope I didn't get close to ya. 368 00:23:40,349 --> 00:23:41,972 I gotta get closer, let me turn back around. - One, two, three. 369 00:23:42,006 --> 00:23:43,145 - There ya are. 370 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:45,976 - That's lame, hold on a second. 371 00:23:53,501 --> 00:23:55,364 Once I got over the shock of not being 372 00:23:55,399 --> 00:23:57,643 the only blind kayaker in the world, 373 00:23:57,677 --> 00:24:00,093 I thought, " I really like this guy." 374 00:24:00,128 --> 00:24:02,233 And so I invited him on the expedition. 375 00:24:03,718 --> 00:24:06,583 You never know what to believe with Lonnie, 376 00:24:06,617 --> 00:24:08,585 when he told us that he had gone blind in 377 00:24:08,619 --> 00:24:10,483 a hunting accident, 378 00:24:10,518 --> 00:24:12,554 he said he was hunting with Dick Cheney. 379 00:24:13,728 --> 00:24:15,454 And it turned out that was actually true, 380 00:24:16,524 --> 00:24:17,835 except the Dick Cheney part. 381 00:24:19,423 --> 00:24:21,598 His friend heard a noise, they were in thick bushes, 382 00:24:21,632 --> 00:24:23,669 he rolled around and shot him. 383 00:24:23,703 --> 00:24:26,050 Lonnie still has lead pellets all in his skin, I, 384 00:24:26,085 --> 00:24:29,502 I've actually felt the pellets under there. 385 00:24:44,828 --> 00:24:46,968 - I used to make money cuttin' firewood for people, 386 00:24:47,002 --> 00:24:49,695 and uh, you know cuttin' wood around the home 387 00:24:49,729 --> 00:24:50,903 and everything else so. 388 00:24:52,352 --> 00:24:54,562 So it's nice to be able to feel comfortable 389 00:24:54,596 --> 00:24:57,565 comin' out here and just doin' stuff I used to do. 390 00:24:57,599 --> 00:25:00,568 Like, I'm not near as fast, the lengths aren't right, 391 00:25:00,602 --> 00:25:02,742 the angles, but still, 392 00:25:02,777 --> 00:25:04,054 you know I can do it. 393 00:25:07,678 --> 00:25:10,405 I was out at the, the Disabled American Veterans 394 00:25:10,439 --> 00:25:12,683 Winter Sports Clinic, 395 00:25:12,718 --> 00:25:15,583 and the organization Team River Runner had kayaks out 396 00:25:15,617 --> 00:25:16,860 there in the pool. 397 00:25:16,894 --> 00:25:18,862 So I'm like, "This, this is cool." you know? 398 00:25:18,896 --> 00:25:21,589 And uh, they called me up and asked me if I 399 00:25:21,623 --> 00:25:23,349 wanted to be able to whitewater in a raft. 400 00:25:23,383 --> 00:25:24,661 And I said, "Nah," I said, 401 00:25:24,695 --> 00:25:27,042 "that would scare me to death." you know, 402 00:25:27,077 --> 00:25:29,286 and they're like, "Uh, well you can't do a kayak, 403 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,427 "'cause you, you gotta do at least a thousand rolls. 404 00:25:32,461 --> 00:25:35,223 You uh, have to have more experience." 405 00:25:35,257 --> 00:25:36,707 I'm like uh, "Okay," 406 00:25:36,742 --> 00:25:39,365 well he didn't know I'd had my kayak here on this porch 407 00:25:39,399 --> 00:25:40,711 and I went, "All right." 408 00:25:40,746 --> 00:25:42,057 And I took my kayak and went and 409 00:25:42,092 --> 00:25:43,956 drug it down to my pond down there the next day. 410 00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:46,752 Need to practice those babies. 411 00:25:46,786 --> 00:25:48,547 When I first started you know I was just learning, 412 00:25:48,581 --> 00:25:49,720 and I kinda picked it up. 413 00:25:49,755 --> 00:25:51,550 Well I did 100 rolls the next day. 414 00:26:15,988 --> 00:26:19,439 - God it's gigantic, it's almost like it doesn't seem right. 415 00:26:23,512 --> 00:26:24,444 That's open, there's an open, 416 00:26:24,479 --> 00:26:25,618 it opens up some where over there. 417 00:26:25,653 --> 00:26:27,724 - Opens off to the left, right? - Here take my finger. 418 00:26:27,758 --> 00:26:28,932 - Yeah. 419 00:26:28,966 --> 00:26:30,450 - It opens somewhere there maybe, I mean I don't know. 420 00:26:30,485 --> 00:26:31,728 - Right yeah that's kinda what I'm thinkin' 421 00:26:31,762 --> 00:26:32,936 'cause I hear people talking. 422 00:26:32,970 --> 00:26:34,385 - Right. - And then it's naturally, definitely open up 423 00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:35,490 in front of me and then-- 424 00:26:35,524 --> 00:26:36,491 - Yeah. 425 00:26:36,525 --> 00:26:37,837 - I don't know how far to my right. 426 00:26:37,872 --> 00:26:39,770 'Bout how far to my right do you think it is? 427 00:26:40,978 --> 00:26:44,637 - It's closed um, it seems like it's closed 428 00:26:44,672 --> 00:26:45,638 all the way to like-- 429 00:26:45,673 --> 00:26:47,778 - I'm gonna feel where you're at. 430 00:26:47,813 --> 00:26:50,609 - It seems like its closed maybe all the way to like, there? 431 00:26:50,643 --> 00:26:53,025 - Now see, to me I would think, yeah, I dunno. 432 00:26:53,059 --> 00:26:53,819 Yeah. 433 00:26:53,853 --> 00:26:54,647 Or I dunno. 434 00:26:54,682 --> 00:26:55,924 - Yeah somewhere like that. 435 00:26:55,959 --> 00:26:57,616 - Yeah. But I don't know if we're right or not. 436 00:27:14,529 --> 00:27:17,118 - Lonnie and I started kayaking separately 437 00:27:17,152 --> 00:27:19,016 so we were developing our systems 438 00:27:19,051 --> 00:27:21,640 in a completely isolated way. 439 00:27:21,674 --> 00:27:24,056 - I have a guide in front of me 440 00:27:24,090 --> 00:27:26,783 giving me voice commands of left and right. 441 00:27:26,817 --> 00:27:27,784 Simple commands. 442 00:27:27,818 --> 00:27:29,958 And we just go by voice. 443 00:27:29,993 --> 00:27:31,201 - On me, on me. 444 00:27:34,894 --> 00:27:36,827 - So as we're comin' in down the tongue 445 00:27:36,862 --> 00:27:39,002 we're gonna be making an angle from the left to the right. 446 00:27:39,036 --> 00:27:40,244 - Okay. 447 00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:41,590 - We're gonna ferry into the right. 448 00:27:41,625 --> 00:27:43,247 And then just above the rock, above the big rock 449 00:27:43,282 --> 00:27:45,215 in the middle of the river, we're just kinda gonna cut 450 00:27:45,249 --> 00:27:47,148 to the right, cut to the right. 451 00:27:47,182 --> 00:27:50,013 - Yeah, sounds good. 452 00:27:50,047 --> 00:27:51,255 - Sounds like a plan. 453 00:27:51,290 --> 00:27:52,567 - Let me know when you're ready. 454 00:27:52,601 --> 00:27:53,913 - Let me hear you, uh give some commands. 455 00:27:53,948 --> 00:27:55,812 I don't really hear you too well. 456 00:27:55,846 --> 00:27:57,883 - I was talking, well I had the mic a little ways away 457 00:27:57,917 --> 00:27:59,194 from my mouth. 458 00:27:59,229 --> 00:28:01,162 So, left turn, left turn, hard right, 459 00:28:01,196 --> 00:28:02,681 hard right, hard right. 460 00:28:04,924 --> 00:28:07,686 Charge, charge, charge. 461 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,066 - Yeah they're getting worse again. 462 00:28:09,101 --> 00:28:09,895 - Yeah? 463 00:28:12,621 --> 00:28:13,761 You're broken, repeat? 464 00:28:13,795 --> 00:28:15,832 - What? 465 00:28:15,866 --> 00:28:20,008 - Left, left, good, hold that line, 466 00:28:20,043 --> 00:28:21,734 Hold that line. 467 00:28:21,769 --> 00:28:22,804 Hold that line. 468 00:28:29,673 --> 00:28:32,055 Hold that line, hold that line. 469 00:28:32,089 --> 00:28:34,782 Hold that line, hold that line. 470 00:28:36,991 --> 00:28:38,855 Brace a left, there you go. 471 00:28:38,889 --> 00:28:42,444 Hard left, right, hard right, hard right. 472 00:28:44,067 --> 00:28:47,829 Wait two hard rights, hard rights, hard right. 473 00:28:57,459 --> 00:28:59,634 - 10 feet of distance there was nothing. 474 00:28:59,668 --> 00:29:01,670 Five feet of distance it was super loud. 475 00:29:01,705 --> 00:29:02,602 - It was more like, 476 00:29:04,363 --> 00:29:06,261 - Some muffles. 477 00:29:06,296 --> 00:29:07,987 Oh maybe somethin'. 478 00:29:08,022 --> 00:29:08,781 There we go. 479 00:29:08,816 --> 00:29:09,920 - You got it? 480 00:29:09,955 --> 00:29:10,990 Cool. 481 00:29:11,025 --> 00:29:12,233 - It's not that loud though. 482 00:29:12,267 --> 00:29:13,130 Then I can't hear. 483 00:29:13,165 --> 00:29:14,338 - Is it pretty faint? 484 00:29:15,512 --> 00:29:16,444 - It's terrible. 485 00:29:20,931 --> 00:29:22,761 I figured messin' with Harlan's- 486 00:29:22,795 --> 00:29:25,142 - Correct. Yeah so we'll take this out and replace it with one that we 487 00:29:25,177 --> 00:29:27,766 think works, but we don't know for sure. 488 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,250 Okay so it's the speaker. 489 00:29:29,284 --> 00:29:33,944 So that one labels, labels bad I gotta bad microphone. 490 00:29:33,979 --> 00:29:36,602 - Yeah, there we go. 491 00:29:36,636 --> 00:29:37,706 - Oh my gosh. 492 00:29:38,984 --> 00:29:40,019 - Can you hear me now? 493 00:29:40,054 --> 00:29:41,365 - Yeah, it's loud. 494 00:29:53,377 --> 00:29:54,965 One thing about the Grand Canyon, 495 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,657 is that it gets bigger and bigger and bigger everyday, 496 00:29:57,692 --> 00:30:00,626 you're experiencing bigger and bigger rapids. 497 00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:03,732 Everyday, you're waking up and putting on wet gear 498 00:30:03,767 --> 00:30:05,355 and getting in your kayak. 499 00:30:05,389 --> 00:30:10,394 And everyday has a map of a bunch of hard rapids 500 00:30:11,223 --> 00:30:12,672 that you have to get through. 501 00:30:12,707 --> 00:30:14,847 Day after day it's pretty exhausting. 502 00:30:28,930 --> 00:30:30,690 Only a small percentage of the time 503 00:30:30,725 --> 00:30:33,866 is actually running these chaotic white water rapids. 504 00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:40,355 Each rapid might last 30 seconds, 505 00:30:40,390 --> 00:30:41,494 maybe a minute long. 506 00:30:43,462 --> 00:30:47,086 The times in between, we're paddling from rapid to rapid 507 00:30:47,121 --> 00:30:48,743 are these long calm stretches. 508 00:30:58,822 --> 00:31:00,099 I like drifting down the river, 509 00:31:00,134 --> 00:31:02,722 it's a time for me to listen to the canyon walls 510 00:31:02,757 --> 00:31:05,933 and bring in a lot more information into my mind, you know, 511 00:31:05,967 --> 00:31:09,005 like I can hear the little pour overs in the rocks, 512 00:31:09,039 --> 00:31:13,354 I can feel the sun and shade lines in the canyon 513 00:31:13,388 --> 00:31:14,976 at the different times of day. 514 00:31:15,977 --> 00:31:18,083 I love the peaceful times on the river, 515 00:31:18,117 --> 00:31:20,740 I think I like 'em actually better than the rapids. 516 00:31:27,057 --> 00:31:29,577 - On me, on me, hold that line. 517 00:31:30,958 --> 00:31:31,751 Scorpion! 518 00:31:34,996 --> 00:31:37,930 Dude there's a scorpion crawling up the inside of my thigh. 519 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,142 That's an adrenaline rush. 520 00:31:43,177 --> 00:31:44,730 - Yeah! 521 00:31:44,764 --> 00:31:46,697 At least something in this river can get you. 522 00:31:47,975 --> 00:31:50,805 - I'm gonna drown that little sucker outta here. 523 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:52,220 I think he's still in my boat. 524 00:31:52,255 --> 00:31:53,704 We never saw him floating. 525 00:31:55,465 --> 00:31:58,468 And he got me too, the inside of my leg is totally numb. 526 00:32:00,366 --> 00:32:02,161 - The one I got scorped by, 527 00:32:02,196 --> 00:32:05,820 my butt was a quarter that, like tiny little guy. 528 00:32:05,854 --> 00:32:08,167 - Fair warning guys, check your boats for scorpions. 529 00:32:08,202 --> 00:32:09,341 - Check everything. 530 00:32:09,375 --> 00:32:10,963 - Here we go. 531 00:32:10,998 --> 00:32:15,623 Okay, because Harlan had to jump out of his kayak 532 00:32:15,657 --> 00:32:17,866 because a scorpion was about to bite his inner thigh 533 00:32:17,901 --> 00:32:21,698 and other nether worlds, it's time for what fellas? 534 00:32:21,732 --> 00:32:23,079 - Booty beer! 535 00:32:23,113 --> 00:32:24,804 - Yeah! 536 00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:25,874 Yeah, get that in there. 537 00:32:25,909 --> 00:32:26,806 Yeah! 538 00:32:26,841 --> 00:32:29,188 Ah, drink drink drink drink! 539 00:32:30,672 --> 00:32:31,984 Good job! 540 00:32:32,019 --> 00:32:33,123 Yeah! 541 00:32:33,158 --> 00:32:34,987 Give it up for him, guys! 542 00:32:35,022 --> 00:32:36,126 - Whoo! 543 00:32:37,507 --> 00:32:39,129 - Three beers. 544 00:32:39,164 --> 00:32:40,130 - Oh that was excellent. 545 00:32:40,165 --> 00:32:41,028 All right. 546 00:33:10,781 --> 00:33:15,786 Yeah. 547 00:33:21,102 --> 00:33:22,379 Yeah! 548 00:33:25,451 --> 00:33:28,144 - When I was four years old I was diagnosed 549 00:33:28,178 --> 00:33:30,767 with this really rare eye disease, retinoschisis. 550 00:33:32,527 --> 00:33:34,322 And my brain just went into denial. 551 00:33:34,357 --> 00:33:35,737 I just wanted to be a kid. 552 00:33:39,707 --> 00:33:41,709 I had people that I loved who said, 553 00:33:41,743 --> 00:33:43,021 "Hey, it's gonna be okay." 554 00:33:45,230 --> 00:33:47,611 Not, and I appreciated that, I loved that support, 555 00:33:47,646 --> 00:33:48,854 but nobody knew. 556 00:33:48,888 --> 00:33:49,648 Really. 557 00:33:52,789 --> 00:33:54,066 It doesn't matter how many people have said, 558 00:33:54,101 --> 00:33:55,688 "Get ready for this it's happening," 559 00:33:55,723 --> 00:33:57,069 like I was not ready. 560 00:33:57,104 --> 00:33:59,071 It felt like I was, like I'd gotten hit in the head 561 00:33:59,106 --> 00:34:00,107 with a sledgehammer. 562 00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:05,284 A week before my freshman year in high school, 563 00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:08,736 I lost the last traces of vision. 564 00:34:08,770 --> 00:34:11,187 And I wasn't like a little bit seeing impaired, 565 00:34:11,221 --> 00:34:12,429 I was blind as a bat. 566 00:34:12,464 --> 00:34:15,122 Like I could not see to take a step. 567 00:34:17,227 --> 00:34:19,919 I was born into this really great family. 568 00:34:19,954 --> 00:34:24,303 My dad's a Marine pilot aviator, 569 00:34:24,338 --> 00:34:26,581 just really tough, really disciplined. 570 00:34:28,238 --> 00:34:30,206 - I have a, a placard, 571 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:32,656 I send it to sons and daughters when I think they could 572 00:34:32,691 --> 00:34:36,004 use it but it's, "When things go wrong as they sometimes 573 00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:39,146 "will, and the road you're trudging seems all uphill, 574 00:34:39,180 --> 00:34:41,320 "and the funds are low and the debts are high and you 575 00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:43,736 "wanna smile, but you have to cry. 576 00:34:43,771 --> 00:34:46,325 "When care is pressing you down a bit, 577 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,088 "rest if you must, but don't you quit." 578 00:34:55,369 --> 00:34:58,820 - My mom was really loving, really soft. 579 00:34:59,683 --> 00:35:01,720 Almost fragile in a way. 580 00:35:04,861 --> 00:35:06,483 - His mom, she was the one 581 00:35:06,518 --> 00:35:07,829 that went into schools 582 00:35:09,003 --> 00:35:13,283 and absolutely demanded that he be schooled 583 00:35:13,318 --> 00:35:15,941 like a normal kid. 584 00:35:15,975 --> 00:35:18,633 So she was a real tiger, lioness. 585 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,293 - I remember listening to my brothers 586 00:35:23,328 --> 00:35:25,157 out there playing basketball as I was going blind, 587 00:35:25,192 --> 00:35:27,953 and just really wanting to be a part of that 588 00:35:27,987 --> 00:35:32,026 and really sort of angry because you know 589 00:35:32,060 --> 00:35:33,269 what was I gonna do? 590 00:35:33,303 --> 00:35:34,787 I couldn't catch a baseball or anything, 591 00:35:34,822 --> 00:35:37,307 and one of the things I heard that a blind person could 592 00:35:37,342 --> 00:35:38,515 do was to wrestle. 593 00:35:41,553 --> 00:35:43,175 And so one day after school, 594 00:35:43,210 --> 00:35:45,557 I found myself tapping my cane down the hallway 595 00:35:45,591 --> 00:35:49,871 towards that stinky, musty wrestling room and just 596 00:35:49,906 --> 00:35:51,528 signing up, and uh, 597 00:35:51,563 --> 00:35:54,669 and that first day, the captain of the team 598 00:35:54,704 --> 00:35:56,637 slammed my head against the mat so hard just 599 00:35:56,671 --> 00:35:58,190 like every other kid and I loved it, 600 00:35:58,225 --> 00:35:59,847 that this is my family. 601 00:36:02,194 --> 00:36:03,333 - Come on, Erik! 602 00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:06,854 Whoo! 603 00:36:19,073 --> 00:36:20,419 - After I went blind, 604 00:36:21,593 --> 00:36:24,699 I felt like I was stuck in this prison. 605 00:36:26,874 --> 00:36:30,395 It was scary being inside and it was also scary 606 00:36:30,429 --> 00:36:32,155 trying to get out of it. 607 00:37:07,397 --> 00:37:08,916 - Cool, how you guys feelin'? 608 00:37:10,435 --> 00:37:12,471 - Eh, kinda like, business. 609 00:37:12,506 --> 00:37:13,265 - Business? 610 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:14,301 - Business moment. 611 00:37:14,335 --> 00:37:15,129 - Yep. 612 00:37:15,163 --> 00:37:16,095 Focus. 613 00:37:16,130 --> 00:37:17,304 - Focus. 614 00:37:17,338 --> 00:37:18,891 - I like focus, I think that's a good word. 615 00:37:18,926 --> 00:37:20,962 Downstream you guys we have Horn Creek rapid, 616 00:37:20,997 --> 00:37:23,517 it's actually the steepest rapid in the Grand Canyon. 617 00:37:25,346 --> 00:37:26,278 - All right. 618 00:37:26,313 --> 00:37:27,314 - So-- 619 00:37:27,348 --> 00:37:28,280 - I can hear it. 620 00:37:28,315 --> 00:37:29,177 - One of my favorites 621 00:37:29,212 --> 00:37:30,420 down here in the Grand Canyon. 622 00:37:34,459 --> 00:37:36,806 But yeah, and you know just just be loose, 623 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,292 be thoughtful in your strokes and calm and-- 624 00:37:40,327 --> 00:37:41,604 - Are we gonna jump in, 625 00:37:41,638 --> 00:37:43,295 do you want us to jump into that eddy down below? 626 00:37:43,330 --> 00:37:44,917 You want us to-- 627 00:37:44,952 --> 00:37:46,505 - Oh you know we'll probably eddy out there 628 00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:48,162 and then once everybody's through we can peel off 629 00:37:48,196 --> 00:37:51,130 and celebrate and we're all gonna just grease 630 00:37:51,165 --> 00:37:52,615 our lines you know? 631 00:37:54,030 --> 00:37:55,100 - There you go. 632 00:37:55,134 --> 00:37:56,204 - Yeah. 633 00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:56,998 - Thank you, man. 634 00:37:57,033 --> 00:37:57,930 Good luck. 635 00:37:57,965 --> 00:37:58,655 - Thank you, thanks, Lonnie. 636 00:37:58,690 --> 00:37:59,449 - Yep, see ya man. 637 00:37:59,484 --> 00:38:00,485 - All right. 638 00:38:02,694 --> 00:38:03,591 - Good seeing you. 639 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:06,456 - Cool, any questions about it? 640 00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:09,148 - Nah man, sounds good. 641 00:38:09,183 --> 00:38:10,184 - All right. 642 00:38:11,012 --> 00:38:12,324 I'm feeling it- 643 00:38:12,359 --> 00:38:14,188 - So the first uh, when you angle in, 644 00:38:14,222 --> 00:38:17,881 the first, will, will probably be left, right? 645 00:38:19,158 --> 00:38:20,298 - Yep, so we're gonna be, 646 00:38:20,332 --> 00:38:22,334 we're gonna be running right to left- 647 00:38:22,369 --> 00:38:23,162 - Yeah, okay. 648 00:38:23,197 --> 00:38:24,509 - And uh, yeah. 649 00:38:24,543 --> 00:38:26,476 There's actually, there'll be a lateral 650 00:38:26,511 --> 00:38:28,547 so on that left we're gonna be kinda squaring 651 00:38:28,582 --> 00:38:30,446 up to a lateral coming off the right horn, 652 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,551 so there'll be a one pit there. 653 00:38:32,586 --> 00:38:34,208 And then we'll have a little bit of slack water, 654 00:38:34,242 --> 00:38:35,416 so we'll push through that. 655 00:38:36,728 --> 00:38:37,487 Yeah. 656 00:38:37,522 --> 00:38:38,592 - Yeah, okay. 657 00:38:39,420 --> 00:38:40,939 - On me. 658 00:38:42,734 --> 00:38:47,739 On me. 659 00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:51,950 Hard right, hard right, hard right. 660 00:38:53,538 --> 00:38:56,334 Hard right, hard right, paddle, 661 00:38:56,368 --> 00:39:01,269 on me, on me, on me, on me, on me. 662 00:39:10,451 --> 00:39:13,868 We're just about to enter the tongue here, 663 00:39:13,903 --> 00:39:15,249 hold that line, 664 00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:17,803 small left, 665 00:39:18,770 --> 00:39:19,702 small left, 666 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,430 hold that line, 667 00:39:23,464 --> 00:39:25,224 let that current take you a little bit, perfect, 668 00:39:25,259 --> 00:39:26,536 hold that line. 669 00:39:27,986 --> 00:39:30,195 Hold that line, charge a little bit, 670 00:39:30,229 --> 00:39:32,577 couple laterals here, small left, 671 00:39:32,611 --> 00:39:35,407 left, there you go hold that line. 672 00:39:52,424 --> 00:39:53,183 Charge! 673 00:39:57,602 --> 00:39:59,500 Hard left, hard left! 674 00:40:03,366 --> 00:40:04,160 Perfect! 675 00:40:06,265 --> 00:40:07,612 Good job, brother! 676 00:40:34,535 --> 00:40:38,505 You have the beach about 10 feet in front of ya. 677 00:40:42,509 --> 00:40:45,650 And five feet, and there she is right there. 678 00:40:45,684 --> 00:40:46,858 - Touchdown, thanks. 679 00:40:55,798 --> 00:41:00,665 - One of the life tragedies that you face, 680 00:41:01,735 --> 00:41:04,323 uh Erik was at wrestling camp and his mom 681 00:41:04,358 --> 00:41:06,049 was in a car accident. 682 00:41:06,084 --> 00:41:10,191 I walked onto the edge of the mat 683 00:41:10,226 --> 00:41:14,126 and he knew that it was his dad and he said, 684 00:41:14,161 --> 00:41:14,886 "Dad, dad! 685 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,370 "Where are ya?" 686 00:41:16,404 --> 00:41:19,166 He said, "you know the tournaments not until Saturday." 687 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,894 And then I had to tell him that his mom had died. 688 00:41:32,282 --> 00:41:37,287 So that was a, that was a huge blow to him. 689 00:41:40,670 --> 00:41:44,536 - Losing my mom was the definition of pain, 690 00:41:44,571 --> 00:41:49,196 like so painful, uh that you know you wonder 691 00:41:49,230 --> 00:41:51,163 how your body goes forward. 692 00:41:51,198 --> 00:41:53,027 How your heart keeps ticking. 693 00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:58,550 - Not long after that 694 00:41:58,585 --> 00:42:02,934 he went totally, blindness at the same time. 695 00:42:02,968 --> 00:42:05,557 Blindness and losing your mom, and I've thought many 696 00:42:05,592 --> 00:42:08,042 times about the fact that that would uh, 697 00:42:08,077 --> 00:42:10,424 destroy many people, right? 698 00:42:13,772 --> 00:42:16,119 I never figured out why it didn't destroy him. 699 00:42:19,606 --> 00:42:22,401 - Wait wait wait, oh. 700 00:42:22,436 --> 00:42:23,230 - Nice. 701 00:42:27,614 --> 00:42:30,133 The way people react to bad things 702 00:42:31,997 --> 00:42:34,621 is that they shut down and they build a lotta crust 703 00:42:34,655 --> 00:42:37,624 around themselves and I, I'm the first person 704 00:42:37,658 --> 00:42:42,145 who does that, and yet something keeps nagging 705 00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:44,769 at me telling me that that's, you know, to build up 706 00:42:44,803 --> 00:42:47,772 that crust is the, the exact wrong thing to do. 707 00:42:51,327 --> 00:42:53,916 Lay it open, and that's where like, 708 00:42:53,950 --> 00:42:56,608 that's where the great stuff happens in your life. 709 00:42:58,852 --> 00:43:03,235 The river isn't really alive, but it has a strong character. 710 00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:06,756 Some rapids are big and friendly and big waves, 711 00:43:06,791 --> 00:43:08,586 and some are really violent, 712 00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:10,829 like going into a boxing match, you just get stomped. 713 00:43:10,864 --> 00:43:13,729 So, it's uh, easy to think about the canyon 714 00:43:13,763 --> 00:43:18,388 and the rapids as sort of having a life and energy. 715 00:43:23,808 --> 00:43:25,741 Each rapid you wanna do well, 716 00:43:25,775 --> 00:43:28,640 you know you wanna, you wanna squeak through the gauntlet. 717 00:43:34,335 --> 00:43:37,269 But now I hear something below, it's hard to know exactly 718 00:43:37,304 --> 00:43:38,857 what it is. 719 00:43:38,892 --> 00:43:43,413 And so, it just like gets that little tingle in your belly, 720 00:43:44,656 --> 00:43:46,624 and you're like, okay, what is that ahead? 721 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,568 - Small left, there hold that line. 722 00:44:00,603 --> 00:44:02,709 We're still about 150 feet away. 723 00:44:02,743 --> 00:44:04,849 - There's always that potential chance 724 00:44:04,883 --> 00:44:08,162 that the river takes me away, or washes me one direction 725 00:44:08,197 --> 00:44:10,717 and him the other direction or I flip upside down. 726 00:44:10,751 --> 00:44:13,512 And that, and that is a very stark reality. 727 00:44:15,722 --> 00:44:18,794 Never before have I felt so, adamant 728 00:44:18,828 --> 00:44:20,140 that I have to be upright. 729 00:44:20,174 --> 00:44:22,694 I have to be upright and be you know aware 730 00:44:22,729 --> 00:44:23,730 of what's going on. 731 00:44:25,524 --> 00:44:27,734 - Hold that line, left turn. 732 00:44:27,768 --> 00:44:29,080 Hold that line. 733 00:44:34,533 --> 00:44:38,434 Right turn, hard right, hard right, hard right. 734 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:42,887 - Small right? 735 00:45:13,469 --> 00:45:15,816 - And hard left, there you go. 736 00:45:18,577 --> 00:45:20,718 Eddying out, fight that spin, there you go, 737 00:45:20,752 --> 00:45:22,789 good job buddy, good job. 738 00:45:24,583 --> 00:45:26,033 - When I first met Erik, 739 00:45:26,068 --> 00:45:28,760 I think the thing that drew me to him and being involved 740 00:45:28,795 --> 00:45:31,798 on this project the most was not necessarily 741 00:45:31,832 --> 00:45:34,593 kayaking the Grand Canyon with a blind guy, 742 00:45:34,628 --> 00:45:39,633 but we were both given uncertainties at a young age. 743 00:45:42,809 --> 00:45:45,156 It's definitely interesting that several 744 00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:50,195 of my pivotal moments in my life have happened with water. 745 00:45:54,544 --> 00:45:56,892 My mom had been taking us on river trips 746 00:45:56,926 --> 00:45:58,686 since I was probably three years old. 747 00:46:00,274 --> 00:46:03,588 This is a bunch of old random photos, 748 00:46:03,622 --> 00:46:06,729 this is my first waterfall I ever dropped kayak. 749 00:46:08,144 --> 00:46:11,251 Up in Oregon, middle of winter freezing cold. 750 00:46:11,285 --> 00:46:15,151 So this is me, probably when I was three or four, 751 00:46:15,186 --> 00:46:17,809 and then this is my sister Marika 752 00:46:17,844 --> 00:46:20,847 and then my dad his name is Guerin, his name was Guerin. 753 00:46:22,158 --> 00:46:25,679 He died when I was seven and he was 41, I believe? 754 00:46:25,713 --> 00:46:26,818 So he was probably my age. 755 00:46:29,579 --> 00:46:31,858 After my dad died I got really quiet 756 00:46:31,892 --> 00:46:33,825 and didn't say much for a couple years. 757 00:46:35,378 --> 00:46:38,209 I think I lost myself in a way, I, I didn't process 758 00:46:38,243 --> 00:46:41,074 the grieving or the loss at all. 759 00:46:42,592 --> 00:46:45,009 Finding my dad dead in a bathtub with water spraying 760 00:46:45,043 --> 00:46:48,806 on his face, not being able to pull him out of the water. 761 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:53,224 I remember just feeling totally fucking helpless, you know? 762 00:46:53,258 --> 00:46:58,229 Big 250-pound sack of muscle and guy 763 00:46:58,885 --> 00:47:00,162 laying in a bathtub, 764 00:47:00,196 --> 00:47:01,819 and not being able to really know what to do. 765 00:47:01,853 --> 00:47:03,890 I think that is something I carried on with me 766 00:47:03,924 --> 00:47:05,029 for quite a while. 767 00:47:22,391 --> 00:47:24,496 There's the, a part of you you know 768 00:47:24,531 --> 00:47:28,569 that wants to live and survive and continue on, 769 00:47:28,604 --> 00:47:31,158 but I, I think for some reason my relationship 770 00:47:31,193 --> 00:47:35,853 with water has always felt um, like it's okay. 771 00:47:40,029 --> 00:47:40,927 I'm haunted by water. 772 00:47:58,116 --> 00:47:59,600 - You know, I'd always thought 773 00:47:59,635 --> 00:48:02,189 of Harlan as indestructible. 774 00:48:02,224 --> 00:48:03,950 You know, he's like a superhero. 775 00:48:05,296 --> 00:48:10,301 But, I don't think you can ever really truly see a person. 776 00:48:11,129 --> 00:48:12,475 You know, see past that armor. 777 00:48:13,683 --> 00:48:15,893 To this kid that's just sitting there helpless 778 00:48:15,927 --> 00:48:17,791 and shattered and 779 00:48:20,138 --> 00:48:20,967 speechless. 780 00:48:22,106 --> 00:48:23,279 You know? 781 00:48:23,314 --> 00:48:25,109 Feeling the weight of that water on his soul. 782 00:48:27,974 --> 00:48:31,632 It's not lost on me that after his dad died, 783 00:48:31,667 --> 00:48:34,083 he had to find his own way out of that deep well of 784 00:48:34,118 --> 00:48:36,948 despair just to find that voice again and, 785 00:48:36,983 --> 00:48:39,364 that's the voice that's carrying us down the river. 786 00:48:56,347 --> 00:48:57,141 - Whoo! 787 00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:02,456 - If you break down things like Lava, 788 00:49:02,491 --> 00:49:04,976 you realize it's two minutes. 789 00:49:05,011 --> 00:49:08,152 It's two minutes, and I can handle two minutes. 790 00:49:09,808 --> 00:49:11,465 I'm really trying to block that out of my mind 791 00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:13,605 right now, 'cause that's several days away 792 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,849 and I'm not just gonna sit and harp on it. 793 00:49:15,883 --> 00:49:18,645 It's a miserable sort of way to do it, it's not healthy 794 00:49:18,679 --> 00:49:19,473 for my brain. 795 00:49:34,178 --> 00:49:37,975 Like the Khumbu Icefall that's 2,000 foot jumbled up section 796 00:49:38,009 --> 00:49:41,461 of boulders of ice of like every size imaginable. 797 00:49:41,495 --> 00:49:43,877 I remember feeling panicked you know, 798 00:49:43,911 --> 00:49:46,742 just like um, "I'm gonna be trapped 799 00:49:46,776 --> 00:49:48,502 "in this landscape forever." 800 00:49:50,332 --> 00:49:53,059 It, and so it was after getting beat up by the Icefall 801 00:49:53,093 --> 00:49:58,098 many times, that I realized that I was kind of going 802 00:49:58,788 --> 00:50:00,238 through the motions. 803 00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:02,689 That I wasn't really believing that I could stand on top. 804 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,039 - It's gonna be a long fall if you stay like that. 805 00:50:08,074 --> 00:50:10,248 - I can't hear ya, what? 806 00:50:10,283 --> 00:50:11,491 - Stand up. 807 00:50:11,525 --> 00:50:13,217 - Stand up. 808 00:50:13,251 --> 00:50:16,082 - It's so hard to be fully in the moment 809 00:50:16,116 --> 00:50:17,669 when you're on that mountain, 810 00:50:17,704 --> 00:50:20,051 because there's so much fear, there's so much anxiety. 811 00:50:20,086 --> 00:50:23,503 And all that stuff becomes like a layer between you 812 00:50:23,537 --> 00:50:24,297 and the mountain. 813 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:31,511 Harlan has this really deep affinity to the river. 814 00:50:31,545 --> 00:50:34,376 He experiences the river in such an honest way 815 00:50:34,410 --> 00:50:36,757 and I want to experience it that way too. 816 00:50:39,657 --> 00:50:42,522 I keep feeling like I'm letting myself down somehow, 817 00:50:42,556 --> 00:50:45,249 because I'm not in the state that Harlan is in. 818 00:50:48,597 --> 00:50:52,187 It's like a person looking through a window 819 00:50:52,221 --> 00:50:55,121 at an experience rather than being in the experience. 820 00:50:57,330 --> 00:50:58,779 I slept till like maybe30, 821 00:50:58,814 --> 00:51:01,230 and then just couldn't fall asleep and just laid there 822 00:51:01,265 --> 00:51:04,130 listening to the, to Nevill rapid out there. 823 00:51:05,338 --> 00:51:06,132 It's kinda loud. 824 00:51:16,935 --> 00:51:18,558 - I'm getting ready to run through this little rapid here, 825 00:51:18,592 --> 00:51:20,629 uh gonna try it solo. 826 00:51:20,663 --> 00:51:22,734 The only thing I'm gonna want from these guys is 827 00:51:22,769 --> 00:51:26,290 to tell me going in, if you know I split the sound of 828 00:51:26,324 --> 00:51:28,395 the big roar, or if I keep it off to one side or the 829 00:51:28,430 --> 00:51:29,948 other going in. 830 00:51:29,983 --> 00:51:32,089 And then I'm just gonna try to feel the waves, 831 00:51:32,123 --> 00:51:34,194 and see if I can roll right down through. 832 00:51:49,209 --> 00:51:51,142 - Tell me about that run, how was that? 833 00:51:52,626 --> 00:51:54,490 - It was independence, man. 834 00:51:54,525 --> 00:51:55,284 - Uh-huh. 835 00:51:55,319 --> 00:51:57,148 - You know, and uh, uh, 836 00:51:57,183 --> 00:51:58,460 I don't know. 837 00:51:58,494 --> 00:52:00,358 I know you know the feeling of uh, 838 00:52:00,393 --> 00:52:02,153 well that's one of the harder things of not being able 839 00:52:02,188 --> 00:52:06,053 to see is losing that freedom and total independence 840 00:52:06,088 --> 00:52:09,367 and that's uh, just a small moment of just-- 841 00:52:09,402 --> 00:52:10,334 - Yeah. 842 00:52:10,368 --> 00:52:11,611 - It's just good, you know? 843 00:52:11,645 --> 00:52:13,509 - Just going down by feel that's super cool. 844 00:52:13,544 --> 00:52:14,303 - Yeah, yeah. 845 00:52:14,338 --> 00:52:15,718 So, uh-- 846 00:52:15,753 --> 00:52:17,030 - Nice, well good job. 847 00:52:17,064 --> 00:52:17,996 - Yeah, yeah thank you, man. 848 00:52:18,031 --> 00:52:19,274 Appreciate it. 849 00:52:19,308 --> 00:52:21,034 - Ooh, and your T-shirtin' it too. 850 00:52:21,068 --> 00:52:22,725 - Yeah yeah yeah yeah. 851 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,314 Seth what is it, sun's out guns out kinda stuff, man? 852 00:52:25,349 --> 00:52:26,488 Yeah, thanks bud. 853 00:52:26,522 --> 00:52:27,903 - Hold on a second though, you gotta go-- 854 00:52:27,937 --> 00:52:29,284 - Yeah I gotcha, I gotcha. 855 00:52:29,318 --> 00:52:30,112 - We gotta go. 856 00:52:32,218 --> 00:52:34,185 - Gotta go, oh yeah, gotta roll huh? 857 00:52:40,018 --> 00:52:42,297 - All right now you're, now you're better. 858 00:52:42,331 --> 00:52:43,815 - Yeah, yeah, but I aint got the guns 859 00:52:43,850 --> 00:52:47,371 you got so there you go, you know? 860 00:52:47,405 --> 00:52:50,374 But you got the guns out, I's got the chicken wings so. 861 00:53:05,458 --> 00:53:07,667 - There's a rapid called Upset and it's uh, 862 00:53:07,701 --> 00:53:08,564 kind of a big one. 863 00:53:10,221 --> 00:53:13,880 And uh, some people say it's fun. 864 00:53:16,296 --> 00:53:18,229 Hope that's the case. 865 00:53:20,818 --> 00:53:21,715 - Hey, Har. 866 00:53:22,958 --> 00:53:23,959 - Thank you. 867 00:53:25,547 --> 00:53:26,444 Eating your porridge? 868 00:53:26,479 --> 00:53:28,066 - Yeah. 869 00:53:28,101 --> 00:53:29,723 - I'm gonna go get some porridge. 870 00:53:29,758 --> 00:53:32,554 - Yeah, porridge is good breakfast 'cause it goes down easy. 871 00:53:34,107 --> 00:53:36,109 - When you're tummy's upset above Upset-- 872 00:53:36,143 --> 00:53:40,941 - Yeah, sausage before Upset is just not, not flying. 873 00:53:40,976 --> 00:53:41,908 - No. 874 00:53:43,565 --> 00:53:44,290 Well how 'bout this-- 875 00:53:44,324 --> 00:53:45,601 - A big meaty sausage. 876 00:53:45,636 --> 00:53:47,362 - I'll put some in your pants for later 877 00:53:47,396 --> 00:53:48,432 and you can have it after Upset. 878 00:53:48,466 --> 00:53:50,261 - Thanks, I'll slide it in my pocket. 879 00:53:50,296 --> 00:53:51,435 - You can have some pocket meat. 880 00:54:04,482 --> 00:54:09,246 - Well, I mean I can hear some loud waves right down there. 881 00:54:11,420 --> 00:54:15,631 Um, I think maybe that's on the right side, right Harlan? 882 00:54:15,666 --> 00:54:17,599 We'll maybe miss that stuff. 883 00:54:17,633 --> 00:54:19,946 - Yeah. - That loud noise there, some little pour overs isn't it? 884 00:54:19,980 --> 00:54:21,119 - Yeah. 885 00:54:21,154 --> 00:54:22,569 So just like we were talking about, 886 00:54:22,604 --> 00:54:24,295 you know you pointed out you heard something over there 887 00:54:24,330 --> 00:54:26,297 so we're gonna stay off the wall. 888 00:54:26,332 --> 00:54:27,402 - Yeah. 889 00:54:27,436 --> 00:54:28,610 - But we also kinda wanna be moving 890 00:54:28,644 --> 00:54:30,612 almost towards the wall to get away from that, 891 00:54:30,646 --> 00:54:31,854 there's a hole at the bottom. 892 00:54:31,889 --> 00:54:32,683 - Yeah. 893 00:54:34,443 --> 00:54:37,964 - How you feel about Upset, Lonnie? 894 00:54:42,451 --> 00:54:45,454 - Nice, on me, on me, on me. 895 00:54:45,489 --> 00:54:46,352 On me, on me. 896 00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:50,873 On me. 897 00:54:53,531 --> 00:54:54,325 On me. 898 00:55:00,814 --> 00:55:01,574 On me. 899 00:55:04,162 --> 00:55:04,922 On me. 900 00:55:08,926 --> 00:55:10,237 Very nice. 901 00:55:12,067 --> 00:55:14,690 Keep comin', keep comin'. 902 00:55:14,725 --> 00:55:17,935 Keep comin', keep comin', keep comin'. 903 00:55:19,523 --> 00:55:23,423 - Dude you came so freaking close, to this monster hole. 904 00:55:26,909 --> 00:55:28,394 - Hold that line. 905 00:55:32,501 --> 00:55:34,054 Hold that line. 906 00:55:34,089 --> 00:55:37,506 Little bigger waves here, hold that line and small right. 907 00:55:37,541 --> 00:55:41,890 Right turn, hold that line, hold that line, charge. 908 00:55:43,788 --> 00:55:47,723 Hold that line, hold that line, charge, charge. 909 00:55:51,417 --> 00:55:54,420 Hold that line, small right, hold that line, 910 00:55:54,454 --> 00:55:58,803 charge, charge, charge, small right, hold that line, 911 00:55:59,942 --> 00:56:02,255 right turn, then left turn. 912 00:56:14,543 --> 00:56:16,856 One left, perfect, brother perfect, 913 00:56:16,890 --> 00:56:20,515 hold that line and we're almost through it. 914 00:56:20,549 --> 00:56:23,587 Hold that line, hold that line, you're perfect, 915 00:56:23,621 --> 00:56:27,418 you're perfect, you're good, brother. 916 00:56:27,453 --> 00:56:28,385 Nice job, E.W. 917 00:56:30,559 --> 00:56:31,595 Perfect. 918 00:56:35,150 --> 00:56:35,944 Good job. 919 00:56:39,844 --> 00:56:40,880 You're doing it, like you're doing it, 920 00:56:40,914 --> 00:56:42,157 like we, we've talked about it, 921 00:56:42,191 --> 00:56:43,883 it's our little mantra above the rapid, right? 922 00:56:43,917 --> 00:56:47,127 Like, be clear, calm and precise in your action 923 00:56:47,162 --> 00:56:50,234 and be at peace in where you are in the moment. 924 00:56:50,268 --> 00:56:51,546 And then at that moment, 925 00:56:51,580 --> 00:56:54,238 that just allows you to let everything else go. 926 00:56:54,272 --> 00:56:56,620 You know and I think seeing you harness that, 927 00:56:56,654 --> 00:56:58,760 I mean I, it freakin' brings tears to my eyes 928 00:56:58,794 --> 00:57:00,417 'cause it's amazing. 929 00:57:00,451 --> 00:57:01,970 You know, it's like, that I think 930 00:57:02,004 --> 00:57:04,835 is you reaching this next level of the sport. 931 00:57:04,869 --> 00:57:06,975 That's something that I've had to learn how to harness, 932 00:57:07,009 --> 00:57:09,495 now I get to share it with you and seeing that you're, 933 00:57:09,529 --> 00:57:11,531 you're letting it in is really cool. 934 00:57:42,528 --> 00:57:45,876 - I've dry heaved several times this morning, 935 00:57:45,910 --> 00:57:47,222 when I think about it. 936 00:57:49,155 --> 00:57:50,501 - Yeah. 937 00:57:50,536 --> 00:57:52,779 You said you didn't, didn't eat so. 938 00:57:52,814 --> 00:57:53,573 Have you ate yet? 939 00:57:59,683 --> 00:58:01,478 - You know I think a lot about Lava 940 00:58:01,512 --> 00:58:03,514 and it's starting to weigh a lot of my mind, 941 00:58:03,549 --> 00:58:05,274 consume a lot of space in my mind. 942 00:58:06,068 --> 00:58:07,691 And I can get sort of down in thinking about, 943 00:58:07,725 --> 00:58:11,177 oh you know, so many things could go wrong. 944 00:58:12,385 --> 00:58:13,904 But then I think, gosh it's just another rapid, 945 00:58:13,938 --> 00:58:17,666 you know, I just gotta execute and do what I've done 946 00:58:17,701 --> 00:58:18,564 in the past. 947 00:58:24,259 --> 00:58:26,848 - Forgot how far it is, we gotta go a ways. 948 00:59:20,626 --> 00:59:23,145 - So as we're coming in the green water, 949 00:59:23,180 --> 00:59:24,733 we're gonna meet what I call the slick, 950 00:59:24,768 --> 00:59:27,633 and it's kinda right where the eddy line meets. 951 00:59:27,667 --> 00:59:28,979 - Mm-hmm. 952 00:59:29,013 --> 00:59:30,601 - And we're just gonna kinda hug that eddy line. 953 00:59:30,636 --> 00:59:32,638 We're not gonna, it's not gonna mess with us too much, 954 00:59:32,672 --> 00:59:35,572 'cause we're gonna be pointed kinda right down the stream. 955 00:59:35,606 --> 00:59:36,331 Um-- 956 00:59:36,365 --> 00:59:37,125 - Pointed right down? 957 00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:37,919 Uh-huh. 958 00:59:37,953 --> 00:59:39,437 - Pretty much. 959 00:59:39,472 --> 00:59:40,991 And then when we kinda start getting close to the rapid, 960 00:59:41,025 --> 00:59:44,063 there's some boils that kinda start to form, and the boils 961 00:59:44,097 --> 00:59:45,996 are gonna feel like it's kinda surfing us one way 962 00:59:46,030 --> 00:59:46,824 or the other. 963 00:59:49,827 --> 00:59:51,795 - Could the two entry ways knock you over? 964 00:59:51,829 --> 00:59:54,763 - Uh no, no two entry ways you'll be fine on. 965 00:59:57,628 --> 01:00:00,251 If it does tip ya, just you know again nice 966 01:00:00,286 --> 01:00:02,909 and calm in the moment, just be where you are, 967 01:00:02,944 --> 01:00:06,085 focus on nothing else but just setting up for that roll. 968 01:00:06,119 --> 01:00:08,674 Nail your roll, and then be listening for commands 969 01:00:08,708 --> 01:00:11,262 and we'll get ya, we'll get through those tail waves. 970 01:00:11,297 --> 01:00:12,470 And then it'll be done. 971 01:00:12,505 --> 01:00:13,955 - All right. 972 01:00:22,204 --> 01:00:24,172 - Charge, charge, charge, charge, charge. 973 01:01:02,831 --> 01:01:03,832 All right, E.W. 974 01:01:03,867 --> 01:01:04,661 How you feeling, buddy. 975 01:01:04,695 --> 01:01:05,869 - Good. 976 01:01:10,252 --> 01:01:11,529 - Just find that feeling, 977 01:01:11,564 --> 01:01:13,186 remember that feeling is harnessing everything, 978 01:01:13,221 --> 01:01:15,188 nice calm breaths. 979 01:01:18,571 --> 01:01:20,159 Bring everything in right here right now, 980 01:01:20,193 --> 01:01:21,470 we're in the moment. 981 01:01:23,127 --> 01:01:25,682 Nothing else matters, just kayaking. 982 01:01:25,716 --> 01:01:29,616 Clear, calm precise thoughts and actions. 983 01:01:29,651 --> 01:01:31,066 Whenever you're ready, buddy, 984 01:01:31,101 --> 01:01:34,414 we'll just take some forward strokes into the current. 985 01:01:37,590 --> 01:01:40,075 Small left, there you go. 986 01:01:40,110 --> 01:01:41,421 Hold that line. 987 01:01:42,664 --> 01:01:44,631 Have a good one, fellas. 988 01:01:44,666 --> 01:01:49,636 Small right, there you go, hold that line. 989 01:01:51,293 --> 01:01:56,264 Small right again, hold that line, another small left, 990 01:01:56,954 --> 01:01:58,266 okay hold that line. 991 01:01:58,300 --> 01:02:00,717 So we're still about 100 yards above here, 992 01:02:00,751 --> 01:02:02,442 some nice calm water. 993 01:02:04,134 --> 01:02:05,756 And I will speak up in that rapid. 994 01:02:10,519 --> 01:02:12,521 Small left, hold that line. 995 01:02:26,984 --> 01:02:27,951 Small left. 996 01:02:38,547 --> 01:02:39,859 Hold that line. 997 01:02:44,036 --> 01:02:47,453 Getting closer to that first slick I told you about. 998 01:02:47,487 --> 01:02:52,492 So we're still in green water, still in green water. 999 01:02:55,150 --> 01:02:57,808 We're gonna start approaching this boil, hold that line. 1000 01:02:57,843 --> 01:02:59,879 Just nice calm strokes. 1001 01:03:01,536 --> 01:03:03,780 Good thoughtful strokes, hold that line, little boil line, 1002 01:03:03,814 --> 01:03:05,298 fight the spin, fight the spin. 1003 01:03:09,993 --> 01:03:12,374 - You're good, hard left, hard left, hard right, 1004 01:03:12,409 --> 01:03:16,482 hard right, hard right, hard right, hard right, hard right, 1005 01:03:16,516 --> 01:03:19,830 charge, charge, left turn, left turn, you're good. 1006 01:03:19,865 --> 01:03:22,315 That's good, charge, charge. 1007 01:03:40,023 --> 01:03:42,888 You're good, you're good, hard right! 1008 01:04:11,882 --> 01:04:13,884 You're good, buddy, you're on me, you're on me. 1009 01:04:13,919 --> 01:04:16,197 Go around to the back of my boat. 1010 01:04:16,231 --> 01:04:18,993 - All right will you help me so it's all right? 1011 01:04:19,027 --> 01:04:22,030 - Now go to Timmy, I'm right behind you. 1012 01:04:22,065 --> 01:04:24,101 - I had a shitty run. 1013 01:04:24,136 --> 01:04:25,447 I flipped. 1014 01:04:25,482 --> 01:04:29,072 - That's all right, buddy, we're good we're good. 1015 01:04:30,314 --> 01:04:33,870 - I flipped on that boil line right at the very top, what a joke. 1016 01:04:33,904 --> 01:04:35,250 - Ah, but we knew, didn't knew line, 1017 01:04:35,285 --> 01:04:37,908 I mean you got lined up down at the bottom and... 1018 01:04:49,126 --> 01:04:49,920 That stinks. 1019 01:04:51,473 --> 01:04:53,717 My paddle broke in that, right when we hit that last wave, 1020 01:04:53,751 --> 01:04:54,821 my paddle broke. 1021 01:04:56,271 --> 01:04:59,205 Ended up going up without, without half a paddle, 1022 01:04:59,240 --> 01:04:59,999 bird-winging it. 1023 01:05:02,968 --> 01:05:03,830 Come here, buddy. 1024 01:05:06,972 --> 01:05:09,319 Give me a hug, we fuckin' did it buddy. 1025 01:05:09,353 --> 01:05:10,458 You did it. 1026 01:05:10,492 --> 01:05:11,321 Yeah. 1027 01:05:12,805 --> 01:05:14,151 Good job, you know I'm proud of you, 1028 01:05:14,186 --> 01:05:16,429 you rolled up in one of the cruxiest places 1029 01:05:16,464 --> 01:05:17,775 you can roll up in this river. 1030 01:05:17,810 --> 01:05:19,674 It's at the top of Lava Falls. 1031 01:05:43,146 --> 01:05:45,010 - You wanted to see me swim, didn't ya? 1032 01:05:45,044 --> 01:05:46,045 - Maybe I did. 1033 01:06:19,182 --> 01:06:21,149 - You know you get the idea that you start out 1034 01:06:21,184 --> 01:06:24,118 on this big journey and you commit to it. 1035 01:06:24,152 --> 01:06:26,327 You surround yourself with this amazing team 1036 01:06:26,361 --> 01:06:31,021 and you push forward, and then reality crashes in. 1037 01:06:31,056 --> 01:06:34,611 And you're swimming through Lava like a drowned rat. 1038 01:06:36,061 --> 01:06:37,476 I don't know, 1039 01:06:37,510 --> 01:06:39,029 you know, you just, you know, you just keep getting 1040 01:06:39,064 --> 01:06:43,206 flipped and then it starts to, kind of uh, mess with 1041 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:44,517 you, you know what I mean? 1042 01:06:44,552 --> 01:06:46,243 So you're like wondering if you're like offline 1043 01:06:46,278 --> 01:06:47,141 or something like that. 1044 01:06:47,175 --> 01:06:48,487 - Yeah. 1045 01:06:48,521 --> 01:06:50,247 - And then I just couldn't breathe. 1046 01:06:50,282 --> 01:06:51,041 - Yeah. 1047 01:06:51,076 --> 01:06:52,594 - I pulled. 1048 01:06:52,629 --> 01:06:55,390 And then literally I pulled and I was through it. 1049 01:06:55,425 --> 01:06:56,184 - Yep. 1050 01:06:56,219 --> 01:06:57,220 Yeah. 1051 01:06:57,254 --> 01:06:58,152 - I was through it. 1052 01:06:58,186 --> 01:06:59,394 There was nothing, nothing left. 1053 01:06:59,429 --> 01:07:00,395 Blind five. 1054 01:07:00,430 --> 01:07:01,189 - Blind five. 1055 01:07:04,365 --> 01:07:05,090 There you go. 1056 01:07:07,816 --> 01:07:09,025 Yeah, it was uh-- 1057 01:07:10,992 --> 01:07:13,615 - All right, I should get my booty beer over with here. 1058 01:07:13,650 --> 01:07:15,169 - I pour it fast, and you know-- 1059 01:07:15,203 --> 01:07:16,239 - Booty! 1060 01:07:16,273 --> 01:07:17,205 - It's comin' in. 1061 01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:18,379 - Wait. - It's gotta go in first. 1062 01:07:18,413 --> 01:07:19,552 - What's got the-- 1063 01:07:19,587 --> 01:07:20,553 - It's gotta be run into the booty. 1064 01:07:20,588 --> 01:07:21,554 - Yeah yeah yeah. 1065 01:07:21,589 --> 01:07:22,348 Got it. 1066 01:07:22,383 --> 01:07:23,453 - Got the beer, hold on. 1067 01:07:23,487 --> 01:07:25,765 - Yeah, booty! 1068 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:27,457 - And there is a little whiskey deal on there. 1069 01:07:27,491 --> 01:07:28,561 - Okay, there you go. 1070 01:07:28,596 --> 01:07:29,838 - Little skip of whiskey, there it is. 1071 01:07:29,873 --> 01:07:30,563 And now down it! 1072 01:07:31,909 --> 01:07:33,083 - Drink, drink, drink, drink, drink! 1073 01:07:38,744 --> 01:07:39,814 - Wow! 1074 01:07:39,848 --> 01:07:41,229 Dude. 1075 01:07:41,264 --> 01:07:42,437 Nice work. 1076 01:07:42,472 --> 01:07:43,783 - He didn't spill a drop. 1077 01:07:43,818 --> 01:07:45,095 - Yeah, you didn't spill a drop. 1078 01:07:45,130 --> 01:07:46,269 - You'll never swim again. 1079 01:07:48,995 --> 01:07:50,376 - I'm probably not supposed to say this, 1080 01:07:50,411 --> 01:07:52,930 but I honestly I hate it when people tell me anything 1081 01:07:52,965 --> 01:07:53,828 is possible. 1082 01:07:55,243 --> 01:07:56,658 You know barriers, they're not like imagined, 1083 01:07:56,693 --> 01:07:58,315 they're not perceived. 1084 01:07:58,350 --> 01:08:00,214 They're real, they're real things with real substance 1085 01:08:00,248 --> 01:08:02,216 and they actually hurt a lot. 1086 01:08:17,369 --> 01:08:20,337 Part of me wants to keep on going 1087 01:08:20,372 --> 01:08:23,202 and just never look back at this thing ever again. 1088 01:08:28,449 --> 01:08:32,246 Maybe I just go back, and I, and I finish the circle. 1089 01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:36,629 I, I finish this thing and I do it fully. 1090 01:08:36,664 --> 01:08:40,323 Not like, with just giving into myself. 1091 01:08:41,324 --> 01:08:43,257 If I have another, another disaster 1092 01:08:43,291 --> 01:08:45,500 and I swim through Lava I can live with that as long 1093 01:08:45,535 --> 01:08:48,124 as I, I did this thing fully. 1094 01:08:52,576 --> 01:08:53,715 - Erik pulled me aside 1095 01:08:53,750 --> 01:08:55,717 when he didn't successfully run Lava, 1096 01:08:55,752 --> 01:08:57,167 he swam Lava. 1097 01:08:57,202 --> 01:08:58,858 And he pulled me aside and he asked me, 1098 01:08:58,893 --> 01:08:59,859 "What would be the possibility 1099 01:08:59,894 --> 01:09:01,723 "if I wanted to run Lava again?" 1100 01:09:08,523 --> 01:09:11,008 We're gonna be paddling upstream 1101 01:09:11,043 --> 01:09:13,839 for quite a while, you know up to uh the black rock, 1102 01:09:13,873 --> 01:09:15,703 and then we'll make the ferry across. 1103 01:09:18,844 --> 01:09:20,190 He said, "Well if we do this, 1104 01:09:20,225 --> 01:09:21,467 "who do you think should come with us?" 1105 01:09:21,502 --> 01:09:23,297 And I said, I said, "Your team." 1106 01:09:23,331 --> 01:09:24,298 I said, "Your team. 1107 01:09:24,332 --> 01:09:25,506 "All of us. 1108 01:09:25,540 --> 01:09:27,542 "We'll go up, we'll hike up and we'll go do it again." 1109 01:09:49,806 --> 01:09:52,429 - When care is pressing you down a bit, 1110 01:09:52,464 --> 01:09:54,224 rest if you must. 1111 01:09:54,259 --> 01:09:55,570 But don't you quit. 1112 01:10:09,481 --> 01:10:11,379 - Just take a deep breath and clear everything. 1113 01:10:11,414 --> 01:10:14,658 Just be here in the moment, and feeling the river. 1114 01:12:23,028 --> 01:12:23,753 - Thanks, Harlan. 1115 01:12:23,787 --> 01:12:24,892 - Yeah, buddy. 1116 01:12:24,926 --> 01:12:25,686 Come here, man. 1117 01:12:29,068 --> 01:12:30,380 Thanks for letting us be here with you, buddy. 1118 01:12:30,415 --> 01:12:31,416 - Thanks, Rob. 1119 01:12:31,450 --> 01:12:33,521 - You're welcome, bud. 1120 01:12:35,281 --> 01:12:36,075 Good job, buddy. 1121 01:12:38,871 --> 01:12:40,701 - Thanks for letting us be here with ya. 1122 01:12:43,635 --> 01:12:45,913 - We'll have to come back though, you nailed it. 1123 01:12:47,328 --> 01:12:49,054 - You did buddy, good job man. 1124 01:12:50,745 --> 01:12:51,505 - High intensity Lava Falls. 1125 01:12:51,539 --> 01:12:52,747 - That's high intensity. 1126 01:12:58,304 --> 01:13:00,445 I didn't really wanna, like part of me didn't really 1127 01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:02,930 wanna come back and do it but I just felt 1128 01:13:02,964 --> 01:13:07,417 like I, I needed to and then I sort of tossed 1129 01:13:07,452 --> 01:13:11,248 and turned last night listening to Son of Lava 1130 01:13:11,283 --> 01:13:12,802 thinking like, "Should I do it?" 1131 01:13:16,806 --> 01:13:20,568 I, I tell my kids it's the open heart policy, 1132 01:13:20,603 --> 01:13:25,608 just trust and, and uh, give it a whirl. 1133 01:13:32,649 --> 01:13:34,893 - There we go, buddy. 1134 01:13:43,764 --> 01:13:44,972 - I don't wanna understand love, 1135 01:13:45,006 --> 01:13:46,594 I wanna feel it. 1136 01:13:46,629 --> 01:13:48,527 I don't wanna understand trust and I wanna feel it. 1137 01:13:54,637 --> 01:13:57,087 I wanna be exposed to things; 1138 01:13:57,122 --> 01:13:59,607 hard things, easy things, 1139 01:13:59,642 --> 01:14:02,265 beautiful things, the kind of trust 1140 01:14:02,299 --> 01:14:05,717 that you have with somebody like Harlan or Rob. 1141 01:14:07,304 --> 01:14:11,447 I think being exposed to that, is what enables you 1142 01:14:11,481 --> 01:14:14,691 to feel it and I think it's something I've struggled with 1143 01:14:14,726 --> 01:14:15,658 a lot in my life. 1144 01:14:19,834 --> 01:14:23,459 This experience was this chance to live. 1145 01:14:30,396 --> 01:14:32,468 - This is the geographical end of the Grand Canyon, 1146 01:14:32,502 --> 01:14:34,366 so you guys are here man, you did it. 1147 01:14:35,678 --> 01:14:37,818 - Well, I'm proud of you Lonnie, good job. 1148 01:14:37,852 --> 01:14:38,715 - You too, buddy. 1149 01:14:38,750 --> 01:14:39,509 You too. 1150 01:14:39,544 --> 01:14:40,545 - Yeah. 1151 01:14:40,579 --> 01:14:41,407 It's awesome, man. 1152 01:14:42,547 --> 01:14:43,513 Harlan, great guiding too. 1153 01:14:43,548 --> 01:14:44,825 - Yeah thank you guys. 1154 01:14:44,859 --> 01:14:46,654 Thank you for letting me be a part of it. 1155 01:14:46,689 --> 01:14:51,176 - And six years ago, long time but I remember 1156 01:14:51,210 --> 01:14:54,559 when I first came down here and I scouted Lava 1157 01:14:54,593 --> 01:14:57,976 and I remember thinking, I don't know if I can do this. 1158 01:14:58,010 --> 01:15:00,012 So we're through it, we did it. 1159 01:15:00,047 --> 01:15:03,084 - Yeah, you know it's uh, I gotta say. 1160 01:15:04,465 --> 01:15:05,811 I can't imagine doing it with someone I have 1161 01:15:05,846 --> 01:15:07,641 anymore respect for. 1162 01:15:07,675 --> 01:15:09,056 - Good job, you guys. 1163 01:15:15,925 --> 01:15:19,100 Small right, hold that line. 1164 01:15:23,242 --> 01:15:25,866 Hold that line, about 10 feet to the beach, buddy, 1165 01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:27,902 small left, and there's the beach right-- 1166 01:15:29,904 --> 01:15:31,906 - The beach! 1167 01:15:31,941 --> 01:15:32,735 Awe. 1168 01:15:38,603 --> 01:15:41,813 - Like a one foot step up right there. 1169 01:15:45,126 --> 01:15:46,127 Flat on top. 1170 01:15:48,129 --> 01:15:49,752 - Hi, Daddy. - Hi, little buddy. 1171 01:15:49,786 --> 01:15:50,580 - What? 1172 01:15:53,514 --> 01:15:54,964 You guys are crazy. 1173 01:15:54,998 --> 01:15:56,552 - No, you're wet. 1174 01:16:04,111 --> 01:16:05,768 - That is a surprise. 1175 01:16:07,804 --> 01:16:11,774 - 277 miles, buddy. 1176 01:16:11,808 --> 01:16:12,809 - 278 miles. 81262

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