Irene on October 13th, 2009

It’s finally happening!  Here’s the (supposed) weather for Index, WA this week: I can’t tell you how excited I was to see the forecast this morning, especially when I checked American Whitewater and saw that the Skykomish River was at a measly 484 cfs.  I and my fellow hard-core peeps have been bumping down the Sky for the [...]

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Irene on August 14th, 2009

Greg Nicoll did two go-rounds of the White Salmon River the other weekend, here are the pics of him kayaking the Husum Falls section.       Just a note on Husum Falls – word on the eddyline is that recent flooding moved things around so the line has changed slightly and it’s a bit stickier.  Overall, maybe [...]

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Irene on July 26th, 2009

Saturday was an awesome time on the Skykomish River, running from Cabledrop to Big Eddy.  Kiran Bhageshpur (who also has a whitewater kayaking blog) organized the trip, a bunch of people showed up, and it was remarkable in that: a)  I finally made a clean run on Boulder Drop and arrived at the bottom right side [...]

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Irene on July 16th, 2009

Ironic that I should have just done a post on whitewater kayakers being generally nice people.  Thanks Lisa, and three guys we had just met, Kevin, Chuck, and Rick, for scooping up my yard sale below Boulder Drop yesterday!

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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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Dale Bonson got this cool video of Shanna Gachen and Nicole LeBlanc running the waterfall drop on the Wenatchee a weekend or so ago – wish I could have been there!

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Today we had an awesome run on the Skykomish at around 3500 cfs, starting from somewhere below Sunset Falls (Powerline?) all the way down to Big Eddy.  For me this was kind of a step up to do Class III/III+ at a somewhat pushy level – naturally I flipped a few times but rolled back [...]

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Last Saturday I ran the Wenatchee again at around 9,000 cfs and later found photos of us on the Riverbooty.com website going through the first big rapid, Rock ‘n’ Roll. Check out the difference between these two photos (which I bought, by the way – I know they say ‘proof’, but that’s because I ended [...]

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Irene on June 7th, 2009

Today I was just amazed by how ‘close’ Leavenworth and the Wenatchee River are to Seattle, even though it’s around a 2.5 hour drive.  I was supposed to get up at 5 a.m. to drive up and meet Butch and Clea for a short run, putting in at Turkey Shoot, but instead (in my defense, I [...]

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Here’s the next batch of videos from Memorial Day weekend – these are the ones from Rodeo Hole, I’ll post the Sunday Turkey Shoot ones later. (The first one is the same one that’s in the last post on higher Youtube video quality that I just did.) This one has Brett, Kevin H., and people I [...]

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