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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Dale Bonson got this cool video of Shanna Gachen and Nicole LeBlanc running the waterfall drop on the Wenatchee a weekend or so ago – wish I could have been there!
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If you’re in the market for a Daffy Head Trip kayaking helmet you might want to know about this site I found (because, as I mentioned before, I am a gearhead and spend WAY too much time online looking for stuff.) It’s called Deranged Choppers, and yes, it just figures I would end up on a [...]
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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 bought, by the way – I know they say ‘proof’, but that’s because I ended [...]
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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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In one of my endless online forays (driven by the fact that I am, at heart, a gearhead and secretly want 3 of everything) I found a place that looks like a good spot to get whitewater kayaking helmets. It’s All Sport Helmets, out of Bend, Oregon. I haven’t ordered from here yet but it [...]
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