Irene D.
So is it foolish to kayak on Friday the 13th? I’m not superstitious, but as I was heading out to boat that morning I remember thinking how ironic it would be if there ended up being river carnage that day. As it turns out, I was front and center in the carnage department, but at [...]
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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 up
b) [...]
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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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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 up [...]
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By Greg Nicoll:
Here’s some video from Greg’s helmet camera of people ripping it up on Turkey Shoot.
Greg Nicoll and Jeromy Adams led a kayaking trip on the Headworks section of the Green River on April 25 2009 and a great time was had by all. (Let me just say that Greg nailed the trip leader requirements before we even started by bringing doughnuts to the put-in.)
Here are some photos taken by [...]
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Michael Deckert led a trip on the Cispus River on April 18 2009, it was a real blast with something like 22 paddlers and great weather.
Here are some photos and a video of us fooling around on a surf wave. (I’ve tagged the people whose names I can remember.)
Here’s the video of people trying to pile [...]
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