In deference to the Robe Canyon Race happening tomorrow (Sunday April 25, 2010), here’s a cool video I found on Professor Paddle showing kayakers running the drops – there are some really nice boofs in there. If anyone’s planning on heading out there to watch it should be fun, the race will probably start around 10:30-ish 1 pm-ish [...]
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Last Sunday when I was videoing a bunch of guys running Tumwater I ran into Marco Colella and Jean-Luc Robicheaux, two amazingly good Leavenworth paddlers who are working at getting more people involved in whitewater kayaking through their World Kayak ‘Paddle the Wenatchee’ blog and various events. Marco asked me to pass along an invite to one [...]
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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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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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Team Pyranha came to town this weekend, and it was a good time all around. Dave Fusilli, Jared Seiler, Nicole Mansfield and David Space ran the Skykomish with us from River House down (OK, I have to mention, for the record – although maybe not for the last time – the Skykomish run that we did [...]
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Dave Fusilli and other members of Team Pryanha are going to lead a demo paddle on the Skykomish River today (in a few hours actually – how’s that for me giving plenty of notice? The meetup is at noon at the River House in Index – click here for the Google Maps link directions. Following [...]
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Back in early April 2009 the Northwest Whitewater Racers held the WKC Cedar River Race at the Cedar River Gates near Landsburg, WA. I stopped by and took some photos before the event while people were warming up. (I’ve tagged this post with the names of the people whose names I recognize from the WKC [...]
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