by Brooke Hess | Oct 27, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines
It’s been a rad year paddling some massive whitewater and surfing some big waves! Huge thanks to all the friends who set safety for me and laughed with me as I beatered my way through...
by Brooke Hess | Sep 21, 2017 | Internationalisation, River Running, rivers, United States, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines
2017 has been a year of big water! Four separate times this year I have said out loud the phrase “Holy sh*t, that’s the biggest rapid I’ve ever run!” It all started at the end of my month-long trip to Uganda when I finally stepped it up to run Itunda, one of the...
by Brooke Hess | Sep 16, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines
If you have ever visited the Ottawa River, you have most likely seen, heard of, or been a part of what I refer to as the “Corner Wave Cult”. We are a specific breed of kayakers who have a potentially unhealthy obsession with Corner Wave. Situated smack-dab...
by Brooke Hess | Jun 19, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines
STAKEOUT- the time of year in early spring when a small group of (crazy) people gather in northern Quebec in search of the world’s biggest and best river waves, and stake them out. This spring I experienced my first Stakeout, and here are some things you...
by Brooke Hess | Feb 23, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines
I emerge from the bathroom for my 12th-ish time that day (I have lost track of the exact number on account of having spent the majority of the past four days lingering within 20 yards of the toilet…) to find my friends heading to the boat rack. “Are you...
