Videos
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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Well, I guess it’s not too late for me to write a post in November 2011 after all – two whole hours to go. Here’s a video Todd Thorpe took last weekend of him, Jessie McCarthy, Jon Dufay, and Jim Warlick on the Canyon Creek of the Stillaguamish at 5.7 feet. They did two runs, [...]
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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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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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