Videos

Irene on May 25th, 2013

My friend Ellie Wheat just made a cute video about ‘Stuff Girl Kayakers Say.’  Actually the word is not ‘stuff,’ but this is a family-friendly blog, so I’m modifying the title here – and anyone who doesn’t like it can just – oops, never mind.    Here it is. So, I will share that I [...]

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Irene on May 5th, 2013

Hand rolling your whitewater kayak is a really useful thing to be able to do, whether it’s because you broke a paddle, got it knocked out of your hands, or threw it to the side after securing your boof on a 90-foot waterfall.  Ha!  Oh wait, I forgot  – not a joke for some people.  [...]

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Irene on April 27th, 2013

Here are two sweet videos of whitewater kayakers running the Little White Salmon River in southern Washington.  The first is the Little White Salmon Race in 2012 – while we’re at it I should mention that the 2013 Little White Salmon Race is coming up soon, on May 26.  Congrats to local kayaker Darren Allbright [...]

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Irene on April 20th, 2013

Since a lot of people are taking whitewater kayaking classes and learning how to roll right now, I’m posting a video or two that I think teach it reasonably well.  I’m saying reasonably because I didn’t learn how to roll from a video so I really don’t know how these will go over, however I [...]

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Irene on January 30th, 2013

Here’s what I’m hearing is a stellar video by Fred Norquist and Evan Garcia of their whitewater kayaking trip down the Grand Canyon of the Stikine with Eric Parker, Ryan Lucas, Matt Baker, and Ben Marr (I think that’s everyone – I haven’t watched the whole thing yet but seeing as I know if I [...]

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Irene on December 11th, 2012

Here’s another one from the video chronicles of Dan Patrinellis – highlights of local whitewater kayaker Sam Grafton running all sorts of incredibly huge and difficult stuff in 2012.  Some of the drops are on Tumwater Canyon (Wenatchee River), Top Tye Creek, Robe Canyon (Stillaguamish River), Skykomish River, the Chelan Gorge, and some BC runs [...]

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Irene on November 7th, 2012

Here’s a great video that Dan Patrinellis took of Rob McKibbin running Log Choke Falls on the Top Tye in early November 2012, with Box Drop immediately afterwards and then Alpine Falls at the end of the clip.  This is classic Rob, just plain gorgeous kayaking. The thing I love best about this video is [...]

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Irene on November 3rd, 2012

So looking back on my old emails I see Dan Patrinellis gave me a heads up about posting this video on my blog over two months ago!  Anyway, it still rocks – this is Index, WA kayaking superstar Sam Grafton running POW (Perfection of Whitewater) on Tumwater Canyon in summer of 2012. Tumwater is a [...]

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Mike Nash, Joe Howard, Brad Xanthopoulos, and Dave Moroles all headed up to BC last weekend to run the Box Canyon of the Ashlu River, also known as Commitment Canyon.  There’s plenty of good headcam footage that may someday make it onto here, and in the meantime here’s a clip of Joe Howard (aka Super [...]

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It was October 2008 when everyone’s favorite local paddler, Rob McKibbin, ran the 275-foot Sunset Falls in Index, WA – on his lunch break, for heaven’s sake, after which he geared back up for his contracting job and went back to work.  The falls hadn’t been run since 1926, when daredevil Al Faussett drew a [...]

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