Events
The 2011 Professor Paddle Ball took place over Memorial Day weekend outside of Leavenworth, Washington, one of my favorite places. The Ball is a once-a-year gathering of the Northwest kayaking community organized by ProfessorPaddle.com founder James Amandus and a crew of volunteers, including Adam Ales, maker of the awesome Big Air Ramp over the past few years. [...]
I was fortunate enough to have the weekend off over Memorial Day weekend and headed out to the Professor Paddle Ball in Leavenworth, WA. Thanks to James Amandus, Adam Ales, and others for organizing this yearly event that allows a hundred or so of us kayakers, family, and friends to get together for a couple [...]
If you’re looking for whitewater kayaking classes around the Seattle area, check out the Northwest Outdoor Center on Westlake Avenue in Seattle. I took their five-day Whitewater Fever class nearly ten years ago and I highly recommend it. This is a great class to take if you have a busy schedule and don’t want to buy [...]
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Since apparently I’ve been freaking people out lately with my posts about kayaking carnage, here’s some more cheerful fare. A couple of weeks ago I took the ACA (American Canoe Association) Instructor Certification Class run by Chris Jonason of Wave Trek Rescue in Index, WA. It was really a blast – a mix of great people taking [...]
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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 [...]
Continue reading about Video: Robe Canyon, Stillaguamish (and Robe Race is Sunday!)
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 [...]
Continue reading about Paddle the Wenatchee Event on April 24th, 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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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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