When it comes to how to go from kayaking Class IV to Class V whitewater, needless to say, I’m NOT the person to ask. However, I’m borrowing from this thread on Professor Paddle, where my friend JP posted some great comments in response to our friend Connor’s question about how best to do it. (Connor and his [...]
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Since a lot of whitewater kayakers are downhill skiers as well I thought I’d use that as an excuse to post this totally non-whitewater kayaking-related video – ostensibly in deference to what I think is our earliest ski season opening on record, but really just because it has some great tree skiing shots and I like [...]
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I was messing around on the Jackson Kayak site recently and from there somehow ended up finding this video about Jackson team member Dr. Jessie Stone. In addition to being a superb kayaker and apparently an extremely nice person (going from her interview and the way she comes across on the old Eric Jackson’s Strokes and Concepts video, [...]
So is it foolish to kayak on Friday the 13th? I’m not superstitious, but as I was heading out to boat that morning I remember thinking how ironic it would be if there ended up being river carnage that day. As it turns out, I was front and center in the carnage department, but at [...]
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Before I write an enthralling post about what I learned from my accident on the Skykomish River yesterday, I wanted to give a heads-up about what appears to be a really cool organization, Peak 7 Adventures. It’s a non-profit ministry that teaches underprivileged and at-risk youths how to whitewater kayak, raft, climb and backpack, and they [...]
Yesterday Brett Barton, Rob McKibbin and I met up with Rick Paag and Chuck Kapise at Split Rock wave on the Skykomish River. Here’s the video of those guys surfing it at around 5200 cfs (Chuck’s not in this one but I have a bunch more to post later that he’s in.) The actual best [...]
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Charles from AquaSports in Redmond is giving the shout-out that his friend Andy, who has done a ton of Grand Canyon kayaking trips, is having an open house of his photos this Thursday, 11/12/09, at the East Shore Gallery in Bellevue. All you local kayakers are invited to come see some art, meet some artists, have some [...]
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You might recall that a few months ago I posted about Stephen P., who joined us on a Class III Skykomish run after having done just a couple Class I-II runs before that, and who amazed us all by having a self-taught roll that turned out to be a really good hand roll (he would just [...]