Notikhinsky roll: super extreme
ZXNet echo conference «zx.fishing»
From Alexander Bondarenko → To All 17 August 2003
*Hello, All!*
One day I decided to try some extreme sports and ford the river in the place where
shallow (in the middle of the thigh), but at the same time quite strong current. Well, I grabbed it.
We had to walk a short distance - 40-50 meters. The bottom is pebbly. Until I came out
middle - everything seemed to be normal. But in the middle of the river there is a rapidity.
It was there that I realized what a subject is.
My legs were naturally torn out from the stones. I had to strain my muscles to the fullest
reel. But I was not afraid to get tired, because I was confident in my abilities and quite
He quickly walked in short steps along the intended trajectory. The power of the river was great
and I did not walk in a direction perpendicular to the flow, but along a line displaced along the flow. But
I was still confident in myself and mentally calculated that in a minute I would be at
Take care of each other.
Out of habit, I looked down at my feet so as not to trip. Down often
there were large stones, and through the transparent water they were clearly visible. I them
carefully walked around.
The trick came from where it was not expected. The sun came out and began to play
rolling waves. Before my eyes, these glares went from left to right - I was looking at
water. And then I start to feel that something is wrong. I stop and continue
look through the water. The feeling is that you are about to fall. It's starting to make me
stagger. Then it dawned on me - because of the constant picture of people running before my eyeswaves, my head began to spin slightly. I stop looking into the water and translate
look at the sky. That's right - the head is floating. But after a few seconds it stops and I
I'm trying to continue on my way. But as soon as I look down again, my head starts
spin more intensely. I look at the sky, trying to walk without looking into the water.
A continuous stumbling begins. I again look through the water and my head again
spinning. I turn up my nose and stumble again. Slight panic, movement
become convulsive. I even suddenly began to feel slightly unwell.
It’s clear, I’m now moving two times slower than before, but that’s all
Equally stubbornly I walked through the stream with the thought in my head that I would get there without taking a bath. A
What does Kupalovo threaten me with? At best I'll get wet like a gopher, at worst I'll get wet
will be carried into the pit, which ends with a rolling stone, where I, thanks to a 20-kilogram
backpack forever and ever I will be alone with the river depths, since I don’t know how to swim. Panic
at the thought of being united with the elements, it completely disappears, as adrenaline enters the blood
It is already thrown out in daily portions. But suddenly, to my surprise, I feel
that I'm starting to get tired.
There are 20 meters left to the other shore, but it seems to me that there are all 100. I
I turn my face against the current and look at the storms that rage above
huge pitfalls are a little higher. Well, little river, let's fight?Clenching his jaw, baring his teeth, tensing so that the veins bulged on his neck and forehead,
I'm cutting through the rapids. A more or less strong wave moves me downstream,
but I don't fall. I stumble several times. One time I hit the water with my hand.
The only thing that saves us is that he bent one leg in time and stretched out the other, getting
necessary for dampening the fall yop. For some reason the stream is getting stronger. Before
White flies begin to fly through your eyes, as if the sun had warmed your head. Or maybe I
Did you really get sunstroke then? The feeling is that everything...
Then there is a lapse in memory and then I’m already standing three meters from the shore,
where the water is ankle-deep. I still don’t know how I got there.
Having come to my senses, with two huge leaps I find myself on crunchy dry pebbles.
I take off my backpack. In a hurry, I take off my rubber overalls because I’m sweating in it.
and got extremely warm. Only now I discovered that I was as exhausted as if
I ran on foot with this bag from Pervoyralsk to Yo-burg. Sit down on
overalls, I turn around, looking at the raging riffle. Still, I made it...
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