{"id":2452,"date":"2013-04-27T20:07:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T03:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2021-07-09T21:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:10:58","slug":"little-white-salmon-race-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/events\/little-white-salmon-race-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Little White Salmon River Whitewater Kayaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are two sweet videos of whitewater kayakers running the Little White Salmon River<\/a> in southern Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first is the Little White Salmon Race in 2012 – while we’re at it I should mention that the 2013 Little White Salmon Race<\/a> is coming up soon, on May 26.  Congrats to local kayaker Darren Allbright on tying for 2nd place in a super-competitive field in 2012!<\/p>\n

The Little White is a really hard Class V river that is challenging enough that it’s not even on a lot of peoples’ bucket lists.  The first major rapid, Gettin’ Busy, is around half a mile of solid Class V boulder garden that I’ve heard you really need to have some cardio endurance to get through reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Spirit Falls is the crux of the run, a 33-foot waterfall with a challenging entry and difficult landing zone that has a secondary crux move below it, Chaos, for which you need to be upright and in your boat in order to go far left to avoid a dangerous hydraulic on the right.<\/p>\n

Obviously speaking from second-hand info here, it’s not where I hang out but my husband Mike has run it a few times.  In fact, here’s a great photo of him doing Spirit Falls in the snow.<\/p>\n

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Mike Nash on Spirit Falls, Little White Salmon. Photo by Dan Patrinellis<\/p>\n

Here’s a cool helicopter-view video of Rush Sturges and Steve Fisher running the Little White.  It’s a nice alternative to the usual head-cam view, and the shots through the trees along with the music give it kind of an other-worldly feel – I’m a fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are two sweet videos of whitewater kayakers running the Little White Salmon River in southern Washington. The first is the Little White Salmon Race in 2012 – while we’re at it I should mention that the 2013 Little White Salmon Race is coming up soon, on May 26.  Congrats to local kayaker Darren Allbright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,45],"tags":[162,311,274,156,101,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}