Chris Totten put together this great video of the whitewater kayaking carnage resulting from the Chelan Gorge huckfest in summer of 2011. I have to say when I heard the scoop on the weekend and the list of extremely good boaters that swam, my jaw dropped. Chris said it was more carnage in two days than [...]
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This is a sweet video by whitewater kayaker Matt Kurle of him and Dan Patrinellis paddling the Ernie’s Canyon section of the North Fork of the Snoqualmie River in February 2011. Apparently this video won first place at an outdoor film festival recently, so congrats Matt! Ernie’s Canyon is one of the most difficult whitewater kayaking [...]
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I don’t usually post non-kayaking stuff on here, but a lot of paddlers are climbers too, and this video of Sasha DiGiulian climbing the 9a “Pure Imagination” in Kentucky is pretty great. Not only is she just eighteen years old, but she’s also apparently the first American woman to climb 9a. What really struck a chord [...]
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This video of Rush Sturges on Upper Cherry Creek, CA, is such an awesome example of being an ultra-competent whitewater kayaker. Yes, he swims, but look at all the other stuff that goes on first. Not only does he get stuck in that hydraulic with a broken paddle and still manage to get out of [...]
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Craig Kleckner posted this video on Facebook of himself playing on a Lehigh River wave recently, and as soon as I saw it I recognized the wave from the high water Lehigh River run I did with Nick LaBarbera last December 2010 when I was in PA. It was 27 degrees that day, and seeing as I [...]
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