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Goodyear’s Bar in the Fun Runner

by | May 29, 2012 | Whitewater

A few weekends back we got a great crew together for the weekend in Downieville. Downieville is a tiny little town that is nestled into the North Yuba river valley at the confluence of the Downie River. This place is heaven for a WW boater in the spring. You have 25+...

Road tripping with “A Wet State”- in CALI

by | May 27, 2012 | Whitewater

After entirely too many hours at work, I decided to play hookie for two days and take a long weekend roadtrip up to Northern California and the Trinity and Scott Drainages. On our trip, we were able to get on two runs which have eluded me for much too long, the North...

Kern River Festival 2012

by | May 3, 2012 | Whitewater, Zen

This past weekend I was lucky enough to attend my second Kern River Festival and Brush Creek Race. Last year we had a banger snowpack in the Sierra and the high flow to go with it. This year we are paying our dues for last season. Let me tell you that even with the...

Fun Runner, Tahoe storm surfing

by | May 1, 2012 | Whitewater

  If you have ever been to Tahoe you know that we get some serious wind with our winter storms. Recently we had a storm that had sustained 45-50MPH wind at lake level. When that happens you get some great surf opportunities on Tahoe. Yeah I know what you are...

“A Wet State” does Chico, CA

by | Apr 23, 2012 | Whitewater

More adventures from ” A Wet State” Chico, California is probably best known for its college and its excellent brewery, Sierra Nevada. However, an often overlooked aspect is that there is some excellent kayaking in the area. The Feather River is only an...

River Running Cali style

by | Apr 9, 2012 | Whitewater

Last weekend a solid group of Tahoe area boaters got together for a river running extravaganza on the North Fork of the American River. We got together to have a temporary good by paddle for our buddy Jason Craig. He was due to go back under the knife to have the...

Fun Runnin’ Chamberlain Falls

by | Feb 2, 2012 | Whitewater

We are having a terrible winter out here in the Sierra and as a result out standard winter runs have not been flowing since all the storms have been tracking north into BC. Chamberlain Falls on the north fork of the American river has been on my brain ever since we...

Happy New Year, from “A Wet State”

by | Jan 27, 2012 | Creeking, Whitewater

With the prospect of water in the California over New Years looking quite poor, Darin McQuoid, David Maurier and myself drove to the northern most drainage in California, the Smith River, for the edge of an Oregon storm that was planned to hit. The day we arrived we...

Racing my Villain to boatercross victory in Reno

by | May 14, 2011 | Whitewater

This past weekend was the Reno River Festival, and as you can tell by all the stories on the JK site it was a great time. We were stoaked with the high water and great events. Team JK did super well all across the board. The team got more podium spots than you can...

Kern River Festival 2011

by | Apr 26, 2011 | Whitewater

Recently I was fortunate enough to get to travel to Kernville for the Kern River Festival. Reno World Kayak ambassador, Noah Fraser, was my copilot on this trip and we linked up with the Sages once in Kernville. We managed to get two quick laps on Brush creek the...