Team Pyranha came to town this weekend, and it was a good time all around. Dave Fusilli, Jared Seiler, Nicole Mansfield and David Space ran the Skykomish with us from River House down (OK, I have to mention, for the record – although maybe not for the last time – the Skykomish run that we did […]
Continue readingDave Fusilli and other members of Team Pryanha are going to lead a demo paddle on the Skykomish River today (in a few hours actually – how’s that for me giving plenty of notice? :) The meetup is at noon at the River House in Index – click here for the Google Maps link directions. Following […]
Continue readingThe New York times has a cool article today about the growing popularity of surfboarding on rivers. Here’s their photo of Corran Addison (of multiple world champion freestyle kayaking fame) in Montreal, where he runs a surfing school called Imagine Surfboard. The article is called “In Montreal, Surfing a River When the Wave Doesn’t Move“.
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When I posted the last video of Shanna and Nicole’s waterfall drop I clicked on one of the related videos and saw this one of people in Creature Crafts running POW in Tumwater Canyon at 13,400 last year – it’s totally insane. Tumwater Canyon is petrifying to me, and at higher levels I drive by with […]
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Today we had an awesome run on the Skykomish at around 3500 cfs, starting from somewhere below Sunset Falls (Powerline?) all the way down to Big Eddy. For me this was kind of a step up to do Class III/III+ at a somewhat pushy level – naturally I flipped a few times but rolled back […]
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Last Saturday I ran the Wenatchee again at around 9,000 cfs and later found photos of us on the Riverbooty.com website going through the first big rapid, Rock ‘n’ Roll. Check out the difference between these two photos (which I did buy from Riverbooty, by the way – I know they say ‘proof’, but that’s […]
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Today I was just amazed by how ‘close’ Leavenworth and the Wenatchee River are to Seattle, even though it’s around a 2.5 hour drive. I was supposed to get up at 5 a.m. to drive up and meet Butch and Clea for a short run, putting in at Turkey Shoot, but instead (in my defense, I […]
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Here’s the next batch of videos from Memorial Day weekend – these are the ones from Rodeo Hole, I’ll post the Sunday Turkey Shoot ones later. (The first one is the same one that’s in the last post on higher Youtube video quality that I just did.) This one has Brett, Kevin H., and people I […]
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I’ve been uploading some of the Rodeo Hole videos to Youtube and was pretty frustrated because the original quality is really good and the Youtube version ends up really grainy. In searching around online I found a cool trick that should work for most Youtube video formats (I think I read it won’t work for […]
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OK, the first bunch of surfing video series is ready after Memorial Day weekend in Leavenworth – which was awesome, by the way. There’s nothing nicer than kayaking down the Wenatchee River and getting out to bask in 80 degree weather at Riverside Park in Cashmere with a crew of river-happy rafters, kayakers and pooches. […]
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