A week and I still can´t wipe the smile from my face!

A week and I still can´t wipe the smile from my face!

Pictures soon I promise! It´s been an intense week.  I´ve done six days of extreme kayak training (Chris sez its a battle of will).  Spent many minutes upside down and hours playing in rapids practicing peel outs and delayed angle ferries (love them, no paddel movement). Finally got to the class II+/III play area.  Expect […]

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Location: Futaleufu, Chile

Location: Futaleufu, Chile

Four days into the trip.  What a place! We are surrounded by mountains topped with snow.  The valley has been from 50F to 90F.  The water is between 60F and 70F.  It took 31 hours to get my sore butt down here.  The last six were on a rubber band airplane in clouds with a […]

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Head Works Take 2

Head Works was sooo much fun we decided to do a repeat on Saturday (1/27/06).  This time we had Anne, Sydney, Paula and Samson from the week before,  Rick and Toria joined us as well.  (Poor ole Dave was laid up with the flu 🙁

It was bright sunny and frosty.  That would have been fine, however, there was a wind.  And what a wind it was!

We put in at the pool again.  First riffle drop got whipped up into a storm by the wind as we entered.  Our boats were getting pushed two and three feet side ways before we could even compensate.   This was going be an interesting run if the wind kept up like this.

fortunately, that gust was the worst of it.  We still had wind but the drops we went through were either protected (or we lucked out!

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Head Works on the Green

Eight winter kayakers found their way down the Head Works on a chilly (not freezing) cold January day.  The river was running at 800cfs.   The  air temp was 40F.   And the spirits were high!

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Trips

Trips

October 2004  New Zealand  Motorcycle adventure April 2005  Costa Rica  Dirty road bike adventure September 2005  Western states  Lonely traily adventure February 2006  Baja California  Loreto kayak adventure

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Power House run in the Sun (ah, snow)

Four brave souls put their kayaks into the water at the Power House Sunday January 14, 2007.

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