Dan P.
After years of taking awesome whitewater kayaking photos and videos, Dan Patrinellis has finally started a blog to share it all with the rest of us. Here’s the link to his new Fluid As A Lifestyle paddling blog. Anyone who’s been fortunate enough to paddle with Dan knows he’s one of the first people on [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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’s the video Dan Patrinellis made of the first 2011 Chelan Gorge release this year - this is just a one-minute teaser video, it sounds like there will be a full one coming after this weekend’s final release. Notice the obvious sun and heat… big sigh. I just saw this Chelan Gorge video Matt Kurle posted [...]
Here’s a sweet video Dan Patrinellis took on the Green Narrows in North Carolina over Fourth of July weekend, 2011. Tight, technical stuff – much harder than these boaters make it look, I think. Now I’m waiting for him to cough up some footage from the Chelan Gorge releases that are happening right now, it sounds like the [...]
Dan Patrinellis posted a nice video recently of a run he took with the Davis brothers on the Potomac River when the level was around 3.5. There’s a stellar boof at 1:05 (at least it looks that way to me – I notice those because most of my boofs leave me requiring scuba gear). Also, to [...]
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