Astral Green Jacket LE4

[Regud]

The Astral Buoyancy LE4 Greenjacket Czech Yourself (before you wreck yourself)- Sweet new design with bootie guy on the back. If you are, or ever have been, "bootie guy" this PFD may be for you.

http://www.astralbuoyancy.com/news/category/astral-le/

[okieboater]

do not know about the LE version
but
I have an Astral Green Jacket and very happy with it

[A Savage spanke]

Wow, this is the most bada$$ jacket I have ever seen, I do not need another jacket. But I think I have to have this one. I love it

[rickyrod]

"the doggie pads work great for playboaters too. I test drove one for a while on the river before my pro dayz. now I use a real raised doggie bed. liven large as a pro boater". (He-Haw Jones.)

[A Savage spanke]

"While kayaking in Cali and safety boating in Colorado, Czech and US couple Jakub Nemec and Meg Smith created the aesthetic design"

Noel Parker met Jakub when he was helping safety boat for the pinecreek/numbers raft race, then he talked with them for a while at the after party. Later in the summer we missed our takeout after doing granite to numbers and got a ride from Meg and the rafting company she worked at. After they dropped us off we headed up to their out post and talked to Jakub about Lake Creek, memorable quote "just put on, its good to go". This guy runs the left line on the new paralyzer rapid, which is hands down the most impressive terrifying drop I have ever seen, it is huge. He said it was his day off and he wasn't kayaking, so we headed out to scout it (it wasn't at all good to go). Heres where the story sidetrack. I ended up convincing Noel the water was to low on Lake Creek (which ended up being true), and we headed to Eleven Mile because the gauge said it was at twice the level we had previously run it, but it lied. From there we had two days of Baileys. Now neither Noel or myself had done this run, but countless people told me if there was any run I did in Colorado, it had to be Bailey (Ryan C, Matt, and Fish come to mind) . We got on really late, and had a blast, when we got to the takeout there was free food and beer. That is how incredible this run is people. We had stumbled upon the first ever Bailey Fest (and first recreational release). Then we camped out with them and did the run again the next day. It was a really incredible way to end a rafting season. I wish I could do that year around. Sorry for the side story- The End.


-Ryan

[ARzach]

This guy runs the left line on the new paralyzer rapid, which is hands down the most impressive terrifying drop I have ever seen, it is huge.
-Ryan

What is new about it?

And I agree, pretty terrifying drop. After seeing several people stick the line, I'll have to agree, it IS good to go... Maybe not for me though.

--Zach

[FarPastGone]

A true American stout.

[ARzach]

A true American stout.

What happened to the BOOF?!?!?!? Did the ledge fall out at high-water last year??

Damn. I have always wanted to run that thing. Its a shame its gone

[FarPastGone]

Not sure, I took that picture summer 2009 at pretty high water, that is the only time I've seen it. We fished some wood out of it and the guys in our group planning on running it decided against.

[ARzach]

Not sure, I took that picture summer 2009 at pretty high water, that is the only time I've seen it. We fished some wood out of it and the guys in our group planning on running it decided against.

Ohhh.... I see. Ledge is probablly UNDER WATER in the picture. Scary... I bet the Cauldron looked pretty retentive that day..

[A Savage spanke]

Ya when we were looking at it that river left side had about a fifteen foot boof at the bottom of a huge slide. That must have been huge to have been underwater, I can't imagine how big that was in person at that level. At a low level it was still sending mist farther than any rapid I've seen

[FarPastGone]

I tried to be to artistic with it, but Cauldron was pretty mean looking at that level.