7/31/1999: Youghiogheny R., Lower Yough

With: Colleen Davies, Pete Chapelle, Heather Chapelle, Seth Chapelle
Colleen and I left her house in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Friday after work and drove to Tall Oaks Campground near Ohiopyle, PA. Saturday we boated the Lower Youghiogheny River with some of the Chapelle family.

Colleen made the mistake of trying to punch the second hole of Double Hydraulic, one of the last rapids, and was seriously worked. After we retrieved my van, the Shuttle Monster, and loaded our boats, I drove her to the Emergency Room in Uniontown, PA, where they diagnosed her with a couple of cracked ribs, and strapped her up. This was a very bad way to start a two-week vacation which was to include six days on a wilderness river!

Colleen wouldn't hear a word about dragging her wounds to a hotel, so we stayed a second night at Tall Oaks.
1. Seth Chapelle on Cucumber Rapid, Lower Yough
2. Seth Chapelle on Camel and Walrus, Lower Yough
3. Seth Chapelle on the Frog's Back at Railroad Rapid, Lower Yough
4. Pete Chapelle, surfing at Swimmer's Rapid on the Lower Yough
5. Sheila Chapelle, surfing at Swimmer's Rapid on the Lower Yough