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my name is noreen newman i'm a
professional kayaker this is the story
of how i spray myself with a berry pill
hunt on a kayaking trip
i had plans to go to the us to compete
and do trips and my u.s visa got denied
because i don't have a proper job and
how do you explain a stubborn
immigration officer that kayaker is a
job well i don't even know how i could
convince myself that
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and then i was like okay i'll do
different things so i went to british
columbia in canada into the pit river
the challenge about this river is that
no one had been in there before i was
not sure that i could make it down safe
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the trip started when my friend drove me
to squamish
and she gave me a bear spray
at some point she just turned around and
she's like just so you know i support
you
but i disapprove
so it was kind of hard you know living
with that you're like okay
this is probably the idea but i'm gonna
do it anyway
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just the beginning
not even five hours later she was right
in the leg halfway for the day one hike
going that way and it's gonna be cold
and miserable
it just started like pouring snow and it
was windy and it was just like okay this
is not great
check this out
pretty cool
except from
the wind
and the cold
and it's scary but that was still
nothing compared to the second day where
i had to go up and over this past it got
really steep
i was
fairly freaked out
kind of have to navigate
and not mess up
so here
there's a bridge there crevasse here
crevasse here but then as i started
hiking i was like oh
nice there's a trail here
people must come here and and then i
keep hiking and i have to go through
some very low holes in the bush and i'm
like realizing
this is not people that come here like
it's definitely bears and then i look
around and i
see bear poop
and i'm like oh
maybe i should get the bear spray out
but krista in the car the morning she
dropped me off she's like do you even
know how to use the bear spray i'm just
like right
good point i don't know how to use the
bear spray next thing i know i'm
clipping the beer spray to my life
jacket so i have it and when you hike
through the bc forest you're pretty much
like in the branches and trying to to
make your way through and at some point
i just heard the
the branch had cut the bear spray and
undone the safety lock first reflex i'm
like closing my eyes it burns and it
just sucks i reach my water bottle
there's just this much left so i try to
rinse my eye but it's not working the
problem is with a loaded kayak in the
forest you cannot really go anywhere if
you're not looking and breathing and so
i keep going as i got down the mountain
all i could see was branches that for
the most part were slapping my
face day sucks it was definitely scary
that night you know when it gets dark
and you have nothing to do and then you
start freaking out and making up you
know stories and getting scared every
time i hear like a little branch because
if i'm like facing a bear and i'm
already like managing to amaze myself i
have no chance you know like that bear
will win you know i'm happy when it's
the morning and i i get to keep going
again
eventually i got to the river and then
things got much easier
sunshine
water no more bushwack
i could paddle and make some distance
and eventually on the paddle out i saw a
bear i was like you know i was kind of
super scared and i was in my boat and so
i was trying to make noise to let the
bear know that i was there he didn't
even care about me
so that was kind of cool
now we're talking now
the pit river is good
and then i saw this jet boat
it's like a flash red jet boat and
danny's good looking canadian i just
don't know why ice cream hey
cool boat
and then i just started joking it's like
hey if you see me struggling on the lake
give me a ride
and then he's like well just wait for me
at the mouth of the river and the boat
showed up and they gave me like a
20-minute ride a beer and a really good
sandwich
straight into vancouver
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