It’s finally happening! Here’s the (supposed) weather for Index, WA this week: I can’t tell you how excited I was to see the forecast this morning, especially when I checked American Whitewater and saw that the Skykomish River was at a measly 484 cfs. I and my fellow hard-core peeps have been bumping down the Sky for the […]
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I’ve been thinking about what I’d tell someone who was starting out whitewater kayaking and wanted to learn fast. One of the most useful things that I’ve been fortunate enough to do has been to paddle with people who love kayaking, are really good at it, and who are really generous with their knowledge. I […]
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Never mind that I’ve gone upside down and backwards over, well, more ledge drops than I can think of, including the last section of Boulder Drop. It still always amazes me how easy it is to lay yourself up from kayaking doing something completely ridiculous. Here are a few of my experiences this year: Silly Kayaking […]
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The Wavesport Fuse 48 is a river runner/playboat cross, often compared to the Jackson 2Fun but generally seen as a little more forgiving and a bit less aggressive. I demo’d the Fuse for about 6 weeks recently and it really grew on me. I’m giving it two thumbs up as a beginner to intermediate whitewater […]
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Greg Nicoll did two go-rounds of the White Salmon River the other weekend, here are the pics of him kayaking the Husum Falls section. Just a note on Husum Falls – word on the eddyline is that recent flooding moved things around so the line has changed slightly and it’s a bit stickier. Overall, maybe […]
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Saturday was an awesome time on the Skykomish River, running from Cabledrop to Big Eddy. Kiran Bhageshpur (who also has a whitewater kayaking blog) organized the trip, a bunch of people showed up, and it was remarkable in that: a) I finally made a clean run on Boulder Drop and arrived at the bottom right side […]
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Check out this video taken by Jared Seiler of Team Pyranha – after their visit to Seattle they headed up to BC and were filming when a tugboat capsized in the Skookumchuck Narrows. One person got trapped in the overturned boat and Dave Fusilli headed out to the rescue – pretty amazing stuff. (By the way, […]
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Chris Peele sent me this video of whitewater kayaker Rush Sturges doing hand rolls down this massive series of pool drops – it’s pretty amazing.
Continue readingIronic that I should have just done a post on whitewater kayakers being generally nice people. Thanks Lisa, and three guys we had just met, Kevin, Chuck, and Rick, for scooping up my yard sale below Boulder Drop yesterday! :)
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I was talking with my friend Maureen Nolan, who surfs, the other day and we were trying to figure out why it is that people who hang around water are so often really fun to be around. This is something I’ve noticed ever since I started doing the Washington Kayak Club paddles back in January […]
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