Unbeknownst to me, Dave Morrison was taking video last Saturday on our Skykomish River run through Boulder Drop.  Here are the videos of us going through Ned’s Needle at around 2,000 cfs, a friendly level at which the horizontally recirculating eddy below the drop is not really in play.  (I hear that at over 4,000 [...]

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Irene on March 19th, 2010

I was surfing around some of the Seattle area whitewater kayaking sites this morning and was reminded to give a shout out for a great beginner whitewater kayaking class offered by Northwest Outdoor Center, it’s the Whitewater Fever course that I took nearly ten years ago and I highly recommend it. (Don’t be like me [...]

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Gary Luhm took some amazing photos of the 2010 La Push Kayak Surf Pummel, they are well worth a look.  Here’s the link to the photo gallery on his site, or you can just click the photo below to go there. Photo by Gary Luhm, used with permission.

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The Cedar River whitewater and slalom races are coming up this weekend, March 13 and 14, 2010!  Here’s the email I got from Northwest Whitewater Racers director and slalomer extraordinaire Jennie Goldberg: CEDAR RIVER WHITEWATER RACES This event is Northwest Cup Race #1 for Slalom and Downriver and is a USA Regional Team qualifying event for [...]

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