As soon as you start shopping for whitewater kayaking gear you realize there are quite a few choices to make about each item, and it can be hard to know what to buy when you don’t have a ton of experience.  The stuff’s expensive too, so you really want to buy gear that you won’t want [...]

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Dan Patrinellis put together this really nice video of the last Chelan Gorge release this summer – sadly, it looks like that was the last release for years to come.  Word on the eddyline is that the water was warm and, as you can see, it was a gorgeous weekend. Rob McKibbin did a first [...]

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This is the most incredible video, taken in the 1970′s, of the first descent of the Susitna River in Alaska.  I am totally awed by the massive water these guys go through in old school boats and gear of that time – no Gore-Tex, no foam core paddles, no big-water hull shapes.  This video has [...]

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Irene on October 3rd, 2011

Here are three great videos by Shane Benedict from WhitewaterInstruction.com about different types of whitewater kayaking boofs.  I posted one of these on here a long time ago but recently found them again and this time read the accompanying notes on their blog, which was also helpful – so here they are all together, with [...]

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A couple of weekends ago Greg Nicoll took this video of a run we did on the Skykomish from Cable Drop to Split Rock when the level was round 950 cfs.  On the second lap of Boulder Drop he had the camera turned backward so it shows a different angle.  And, as usual for any kayaking video, [...]

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