Mavericks, part deux
Mavericks is THE WAVE of river waves. It's steep, its fast, its bouncy, and its very hard to surf, but boy is it a good time. Mistakes result in a beating... down time of 20 to 40 seconds is a regular occurance after a wipeout from the top of the lip, and you spend most of your ride just trying not to get your legs smashed out from under you.

But the lip forms up. it gets steep, curls and is hollow. Aggressive lip smashes are possible - ocean style - hard cutbacks, and even tube rides (though the tube is very mushy, and from the outside it looks like you're just getting your head bashed in by the falling lip... actually from the surfers perspective thats the way it feels too, but... you are "head ducking" into the curl and you can see out of it.

This is my favorite wave of all time.

This is a shot of Christine doing her best on mavericks. You can see the tube forming next to her right hand - you can lay back into that sometimes.
Look at that beautiful wall - overhead surf that lasts forever.... a dream.
Staying in the critical section of the wave...
This shot gives you a good idea of how high the wave can get.
This is Yanick larouche trying to make the best out of this tempremental wave
The tube trying to form, this is when you need to really lay back and duck under, almost laying onto your back and sliding on it in the wave...
Pumping back on as the wave collapses and reforms
A good look at the waves height
You can see here how thick that wave can get... and if you go over the falls right as it thickens up like this, you can expect some serious downtime (like... over half a miute).
cut back to the left lip, and then over the falls, and hope you ride it out....
This is me carving through to the critical section of the wave, which is bowling up nicely here into a good thick lip
Off the lip and make the drop....
making that turn right on the top of the lip, and then riding it over the falls and into the bottom turn...
riding out the drop...
Christine trying to make the cutback from the outside
Cutting around the section into the wall
it's that lip in the critical section you're looking for, and when you hit it, its awesome...
Driving back from far behind the section into the wall thats forming up...
...hit the lip...
...and make the drop over the falls.