View Full Version : Toobing
toob·ing 'tü-bi[ng], 'tyü- verb 1946 1 : the act of leisurely floating down a river with no time constraints or worries; 2 : what Ank can be found doing each weekend during the summer; 3 : a popular activity on fresh-water rivers in warmer climates
tub·ing 'tü-bi[ng], 'tyü- noun 1845 1 : material in the form of a tube; also : a length or piece of tube 2 : a series or system of tubes
the day draws nigh. Memorial Day weekend begins tomorrow. :cool:
honestly, it should be an olympic sport of some sort, certainly moreso than figure skating, it takes quite a level of endurance to keep your balance in a toob while throwing down cans of cheap s***** beer for 6 hours on end.
racer2c
05-19-05, 11:52 PM
When I was in college, tubing was something completly different. :)
Sean O'Gorman
05-20-05, 12:51 AM
You know that line from Billy Madison where the teacher talks about how some people just float through life like lumps of crap? Think about it. :D
chop456
05-20-05, 01:28 AM
The only time I've done it was outside Austin. The Green River(?). All I remember is being really drunk and really sunburned at the end. Mission accomplished. :thumbup:
Lizzerd
05-20-05, 01:54 AM
A bunch of friends and I, many years ago, used to float down a river in a small pack of canoes three or four times every summer. One of the canoes towed an inner tube fitted with a secured plastic tarp that carried our keg, packed in ice.
One of the canoes towed an inner tube fitted with a secured plastic tarp that carried our keg, packed in ice.
[sam elliot] I like your style, dude. [/sam elliot] :thumbup:
We used to go tubing on the Apple River near Somerset Wisconsin. Back in the days before everyone got married and had kids. :( Not sure I could start drinking first thing in the morning after crawling out of a tent now anyway. ;)
Toobing can also include being drug behind a boat in an inflatable tube, or other type device, down a lake at either slow or ludicrous speeds. "Cracking the whip", is terminology that relates to this type of toobing.
Ahhh... Itchetucknee Springs in college. Awesome times. :thumbup:
In Chi-Town, our annual tradition was to join all the other FIB's and go up to Sauk City, WI and spend 3 days, 2 nights on the Wisconsin River. Lots and lots o beer... but never a keg. Go Lizzerd ! ! ! :cool:
Wheel-Nut
05-20-05, 10:39 AM
The only time I've done it was outside Austin. The Green River(?). All I remember is being really drunk and really sunburned at the end. Mission accomplished. :thumbup:
Gruene River!! It was more than likely the Guadalupe River.
We used to have some nice setups. We could have floated a small brewery down the river!!
I remember going to the Wurstfest as a kid and having a great time watching the drunks stumble around the festival area of New Braunsfels. Every night some dumbass would forget that the Comal wasn't as deep as the Guadalupe and climb a tall tree and do a face plant into the river.
Hahahaha, nothing like google drunk chicks and seeing doods with blood gushing from their head when your 14 years old.
w00t!
Wheel-Nut
05-20-05, 11:14 AM
T7 Here's a cool link to a river cam. Interactive and everything!!
http://www.newbraunfelsrivercam.com/cam.php
I'll have to give it a try.
A bunch of friends and I, many years ago, used to float down a river in a small pack of canoes three or four times every summer. One of the canoes towed an inner tube fitted with a secured plastic tarp that carried our keg, packed in ice.Amateur!
Step one: Load supplies in rented canoes.
Step two: Float a ways, find driftwood.
Step three: Lash three canoes into a barge with driftwood across the sterns and bows using, yes, duck tape.
Step four: Pressurize the keg with the CO2 tank, pack the cooler/tap/heat exchanger thingy full of icy goodness.
Step five: float, drink, light explosives, etc.
We used to do this every year. Having the CO2 and the iced tap is awesome! Not as much ice is needed, as you can just let the keg sit in the sun under a blankie or sumptin'.
Heaven.
Best place to be is in the barge. You get to talk to everyone (single canoes have to paddle up to the bar) and you never get left behind. Hard to maneuver the beast, so best to just float.
And you'd be surprised how funny "paddle up to the bar" seems after the booze and the sun get to ya!
KaBoom21
05-20-05, 01:12 PM
Kishwaukee River out by Rockford IL as a young adult and the Chatahoochie(?) in Atlantra was awesome.
Couldn't stand watching the lowlifes who would sink their cans/bottles of beer, though.
oddlycalm
05-20-05, 02:17 PM
In Arizona we did our tubing on the Verde river. Our tubing exbiditions to the Verde were accomplished in my massive old 1949 DeSoto Suburban 9 passenger (3 rows of bench seats & 11 ashtrays) with suicide doors and a roof rack that would handle a dozen inflated tubes no problem. A pathetically overmatched L6 flathead propelled this massive barge through the old hydra-glide manual/automatic hybrid affair. It had a clutch and a torque converter so you made one shift manually while the other one happened automatically in it's own good time. At $400 I probably overpaid, but how does one really put a value on such intangibles as style. ;)
The thing I just couldn't get over with that car was the 11 ash trays, and it was a standing joke that never got old on runs to the river. Think about it. Some guy with a degree and enough years experience to get to near the top of the styling department had to actually get up in a design review meeting and offer a compelling arguement for 11 fricking ashtrays, because you know that anything that added cost would automatically be questioned and there was only seating for 9 after all... :rofl:
We liked to imagine that our future careers would be spent advocating for important technical advancements like extra ashtrays, and those of us that survived the military adventure de jour and managed to avoid mixing quaaludes automobiles weren't far wrong...
oc
ya, you were doing the guad not the gruene, and imo the comal may be fully developed and half concrete but definitely the better place to meet girls to camp with later that night because it's so short and you can run it 3-6 times in a day. :D
ya, you were doing the guad not the gruene, and imo the comal may be fully developed and half concrete but definitely the better place to meet girls to camp with later that night because it's so short and you can run it 3-6 times in a day. :D
Exactly! :saywhat:
Exactly! :saywhat:
:laugh:
Exactly! :saywhat:
don't be pissy cuz it's still cold up there :gomer:
Must be a Texas thang...I understood you Ank.
Toobing? Nancy boy. :gomer:
White water is da bomb, biotch. :cool:
-Kevin
San José
7/20-7/25
http://www.riostropicales.com/pages/pacuare_summary.html#2-3days
eat me. :gomer:
http://www.rockreport.be/images/graphics/forum/icons/08.gif
San José
7/20-7/25
http://www.riostropicales.com/pages/pacuare_summary.html#2-3days
eat me. :gomer:
Come up north for some real action, homey. Upper Gauley in WV = class V. I ain't never tried it, but I will one of these days. Lower Gauley and New River are pretty sweet, 2. Our last trip on the New River we ended up stuck on 'Otter Rock' (as in you oughta be on the right, we went left and got hung up). Yours truly was the lucky one to get out of the raft to help free it up, and then jump back in once the raft got moving again. That was THE BOMB. :thumbup:
-Kevin
If I refuse to drive through Okiehoma why the heck would you think I'd go all the way to Okiehoma East? :gomer:
I remember going to the Wurstfest as a kid
w00t!
greatest. sausage fest. ever. :cool:
(helps that there's tons of girls and cheap beer :D)
If I refuse to drive through Okiehoma why the heck would you think I'd go all the way to Okiehoma East? :gomer:
To hang with yer kin folk. :gomer:
And yes, Deliverance is real in WV. :gomer:
-Kevin
oddlycalm
05-21-05, 06:16 PM
Toobing? Nancy boy. :gomer:
White water is da bomb, biotch. :cool: Nah, tubin is for cuizin, downhill rivers are for getting it on. Full-on whitewater interferes with beer drinking.... :laugh:
If you ever want to get away from the inbreds and try some big water come on out. We've got the Salmon and the Snake. We've also got technical class V runs like the North Fork Payette between Smith's Ferry and Banks. One of my favorite runs was to do the Deschutes at nigh under a full moon. Not being able to see the bottom of the holes really spices up a class III pool-drop stretch. :D
oc
eiregosod
05-21-05, 06:33 PM
toobing, what kind of redneck activity is that?
If you ever want to get away from the inbreds and try some big water come on out. We've got the Salmon and the Snake. We've also got technical class V runs like the North Fork Payette between Smith's Ferry and Banks. One of my favorite runs was to do the Deschutes at nigh under a full moon. Not being able to see the bottom of the holes really spices up a class III pool-drop stretch. :D
oc
It's on my list. I need to get a few more rides in before I can (or will) do class V runs. Class III @ night, yer insane. :cool:
-Kevin
oddlycalm
05-22-05, 04:43 PM
It's on my list. I need to get a few more rides in before I can (or will) do class V runs. Class III @ night, yer insane. :cool: To be clear, I've not done class V entirely on my own, but I've done the North Fork Payette between Smiths Ferry and Banks several times on pontoon rigs with a guide. The night float on the Deschutes also sounds a lot more intimidating than it was. It's very open high desert country and the full moon was so bright it was throwing shadows so on that very familiar stretch it was no more challenging than doing it in daylight. Spooky not being able to see the big reversals at the bottom of the holes, but no real danger. It did freak out some other rafters that were camping on the banks who clearly thought we were drunk and were yelling at us to stop. :laugh:
oc
To be clear, I've not done class V entirely on my own, but I've done the North Fork Payette between Smiths Ferry and Banks several times on pontoon rigs with a guide. The night float on the Deschutes also sounds a lot more intimidating than it was. It's very open high desert country and the full moon was so bright it was throwing shadows so on that very familiar stretch it was no more challenging than doing it in daylight. Spooky not being able to see the big reversals at the bottom of the holes, but no real danger. It did freak out some other rafters that were camping on the banks who clearly thought we were drunk and were yelling at us to stop. :laugh:
oc
dood, i'm floating with you guys.
It did freak out some other rafters that were camping on the banks who clearly thought we were drunk and were yelling at us to stop. :laugh:
oc
Visions of Planes, Trains & Automobiles when John Candy and Steve Martin were driving the wrong way on the highway. :)
-Kevin
toobing, what kind of redneck activity is that?
the greatest redneck activity of all. :cool: 3 more days... aw, hell yea.
I hit the water Saturday for the 4-day expedition on a bachelor party. Should be sick. :thumbup:
Yampa River (http://www.raft-colorado.com/yampa.htm)
as long as we don't wind up like this guy.
A Dood Named Shirlie (http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/17226 )
It's floodin' time ! ! ! :gomer:
A Couple More (http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2751375)
"The powerful runoff carries fallen trees and limbs, boulders and even refrigerators, which are often submerged and unseen in muddy waters"
Still though, one can probably drink more while toobing.
And I just realized I'm going to be spending 4 days with no ladies. :cry:
And I just realized I'm going to be spending 4 days with no ladies. :cry:
that my friend, is key :p
T - 14:52:24
"Pure. Texan. Beer." http://www2.hornfans.com/wwwthreads/images/icons/smokin.gif
http://www.puretexanbeer.com/images/ourbeercan.jpg
plus
girls like this: http://www.littlefluffycloud.com/2005/05/toobing-texas-tradition.htm
plus
more of this
http://www.puretexanbeer.com/images/ourbeercan.jpg
and throw in a couple of takamine's, a campfire, and a few tents :cool:
Methanolandbrats
05-26-05, 10:17 PM
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/images/smilies/worthless.gif
^^^
OK. Here's a pic of f00boy tubbing:
http://thepiton.typepad.com/the_piton/images/tooblogoA-thumb.gif
:D :gomer:
-Kevin
OGorman's the white boy, get it straight :gomer:
OGorman's the white boy, get it straight :gomer:
So there you go playin' the race card.... :gomer:
-Kevin
nay sir, merely a historian. My only desire is to leave posterity a historical record lacking in gross error :gomer:
Visions of Planes, Trains & Automobiles when John Candy and Steve Martin were driving the wrong way on the highway. :)
-Kevin
"They don't know where we're going." :D
If you're floating with a chick and the water suddenly gets warm, you're doin' it right. :thumbup:
http://music.walmart.com/m/000/93/62/48/42/42/0009362484242.01.01.006.mp3
"We had 6 ice chests with the tubes around em, ya know what i'm talking about? We were floating down the river for six and a half hours not ONE person had to pee..."
-Ron White
game on :cool:
Sean O'Gorman
05-27-05, 08:53 AM
So there you go playin' the race card.... :gomer:
-Kevin
At least he was able to figure it out. Cork still insists that I'm hispanic. :gomer:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/images/smilies/worthless.gif
http://www.rrcrentals.com/04photos/rrc-tuber.jpg
http://www.rrcrentals.com/04photos/DSCF0200.jpg
http://www.riversportstubes.com/images/Your%20Photos/5-26-03GroupOne52.jpg
oddlycalm
05-27-05, 12:40 PM
toobing, what kind of redneck activity is that? It's your basic water/gravity thing. Truck or tractor inner tube, beer, young ladies with a taste for the bizarre and (here's the important bit) warm water flowing slowly. Toobing wouldn't be the same if you got hypothermia while doing it or had to wear a wetsuit, so it's a warm climate activity. It's also no good on serious whitewater since even if you don't die it interferes with beer drinking. Since clouds of biting and bloodsucking insects tend to be contrary to all day near-nakedness, it's best done in arid regions where few such insects exist.
Probably not the kind of activity that will ever loom large in Eire, just like it doesn't in the northern US climes. Even when the water does get warm enough in places like Minnesota and Michigan, the mosquitoes and deer flies demand their pound of flesh. Same for Canada where there are only two seasons, blizzard and mosquitoes. :D Thus, toobing is at it's pinnacle in the arid US southwest.
oc
Same for Canada where there are only two seasons, blizzard and mosquitoes. :D Thus, toobing is at it's pinnacle in the arid US southwest.
oc
When I used to go tubing at Apple River in Wisconsin, back in the 80's, the place was usually half full of Canadians. Those folks did like to party. :thumbup:
EH!
Since clouds of biting and bloodsucking insects tend to be contrary to all day near-nakedness, it's best done in arid regions where few such insects exist.
Probably not the kind of activity that will ever loom large in Eire, just like it doesn't in the northern US climes. Even when the water does get warm enough in places like Minnesota and Michigan, the mosquitoes and deer flies demand their pound of flesh. Thus, toobing is at it's pinnacle in the arid US southwest.
oc(i've been waiting for this day for so long!) :gomer:
oc, you sir, are incorrect! HA!
Let the little buggers have their pound of flesh. Hell, you're anesthetized anyway, and you drink more than a pound of beer fat as well. Plus, you don't need to worry as much about this, as you do in Texas.
Click on "Launch Video"
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature6/multimedia.html
(very cool tornado video)
At least he was able to figure it out. Cork still insists that I'm hispanic. :gomer:
Well, I know he sez yer a girl.... :D
-Kevin
oddlycalm
05-27-05, 09:28 PM
(i've been waiting for this day for so long!) :gomer:
oc, you sir, are incorrect! HA!
Let the little buggers have their pound of flesh. Hell, you're anesthetized anyway, and you drink more than a pound of beer fat as well. Plus, you don't need to worry as much about this, as you do in Texas.
Click on "Launch Video" Now G., I distinctly recall posting that toobing was at it's pinnacle in the arid southwest, not that you couldn't do it elsewhere. Memories of floating in Michigan are still seared into my brain, including the oozing holes in the middle of raised welts where the deer flies had extracted chucks of flesh and a sea of skeeter bites. I guess the problem was that I was too young to be properly lubricated. :confused:
Regardless, I'll take the Verde River any day. No bugs, no worries about rain, tornadoes or much or anything else for that matter. About the only thing that stops the fun is when the weather to too warm or the river too low. Our rivers up here are great for whitewater, but few are good to toobing.
BTW, cool video. :thumbup:
The Doctor
05-27-05, 09:32 PM
Ahhh... Itchetucknee Springs in college. Awesome times. :thumbup:
Heck yes to Itchectucknee Springs! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Who knew anyone else was actually aware of such an awesome place. Wake up from the tent, walk down the street to the park, tube away, try not to get eaten by alligators or swept down the river underneath the road by the current at the end of the park. :cool:
Methanolandbrats
05-27-05, 09:41 PM
http://www.riversportstubes.com/images/Your%20Photos/5-26-03GroupOne52.jpg The girl in the black bikini is toobing material for sure. :thumbup:
holy. balls.
if only you guys could see the video of the weekend's debauchery... :eek:
now excuse me while I spend the next month in de-tox :(
At least he was able to figure it out. Cork still insists that I'm hispanic. :gomer:
plus you'd never wear a cowboy hat, much like the picture of that overweight pale person :gomer:
holy. balls.
if only you guys could see the video of the weekend's debauchery... :eek:
'shr00m hangover??? ;)
After a few days of competence/ luck, I flipped my kayak in moonshine rapids on the Green River on the last day of our 4-day rafting/ kayaking excursion. The flows were of epic proportions. Being alive never felt so good.
'shr00m hangover??? ;)
After a few days of competence/ luck, I flipped my kayak in moonshine rapids on the Green River on the last day of our 4-day rafting/ kayaking excursion. The flows were of epic proportions. Being alive never felt so good.
pwnage. http://www2.hornfans.com/wwwthreads/images/icons/hookem.gif
one of you f@#$s ran me over just as I was coming through a chute, but s'all good, they went back upstream to fetch my lost cowboy hat :D the beer however was sent to the ICU and never made it through the afternoon :(
Ha... sorry about the beer. I spilled one for every eight I drank. :)
Kayak crush t00b, rock crush kayak, so I guess t00b crush rock?
toob bounce off rock :cool: thereby leaving beer intact and unspilt :cool:
well this sucks...
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- New Braunfels city officials say a slate of proposed ordinances is meant to rein in rowdy tubers on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers.
The City Council plans Monday to consider rules to curb drinking by banning open alcohol containers at several riverfront parks. The council also wants to limit the size of coolers on the rivers to those that hold only a six-pack.
The new rules would also limit tubers on the Comal to one tube per person, limit the size of tubes to four square feet and require life jackets for children.
The city started cracking down on booze-fueled tubing parties and litter last summer with a ban on beer bongs and Jell-O shots. They also increased fines for noise ordinance violations.
http://news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=178046
on the news council dude says ""families spend money here, college guys show up in a dirty shirt and $5 bill and change neither."
I seem to recall dropping a few hundred the last weekend I spent down there, a tad more than that $5... oh well, there's other places to float
well this sucks...
http://news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=178046
on the news council dude says ""families spend money here, college guys show up in a dirty shirt and $5 bill and change neither."
I seem to recall dropping a few hundred the last weekend I spent down there, a tad more than that $5... oh well, there's other places to float
Even so, you'll do that for maybe 2 or 3 years, I did the same. Then I grew up:eek: :laugh: . Since I have a family, I haven't been back because I know what goes on and I don't want to "expose" my kid to it.
That's 20 years of spending opportunity that goes away for the city. Although fun, the party crowd hurts more than it helps in the long run.:(
you're right, I haven't floated the guad in almost 2 years, if I'm down that way I'm hanging out at a ranch w/ fam & friends. and there's no way a responsible adult takes a kid with them. the rampant littering :mad: as well.
it just sucks seeing crackdowns like this when I have so many great memories with good friends. but yea, city maintains revenues while lessening the need for law enforcement and sanitation. the last time I walked past an all out brawl, dude got his head kicked in 50 yards from state troopers but I couldn't flag them down before the tools ran off :\
Wheel-Nut
01-23-07, 01:21 PM
I agree w/ T7 . . . . funny how kids give you a whole new perspective on things.
Andrew Longman
01-24-07, 11:50 AM
oh well, there's other places to float
The folks float past my house all summer. Popular recreation around these parts too. :)
http://www.rivercountry.net/
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.5 Copyright © 2024 vBulletin Solutions Inc. All rights reserved.