Colorado Foam Boat Championships by Will Richardson | Jun 16, 2008 | WhitewaterPhotos Each year Dane organizes the Foam Boat Championships on “Salida Creek” next to the boat ramp. It starts with a trip to the hardware store to get boat making materials so that kids who don’t have a foam boat can make one. We give one hour for...
2008 National Champs/USA Team Trials- Junior Men's Finals were impressive by Will Richardson | Jun 16, 2008 | Kid's Kayaks, WhitewaterPhotos Watching the finals for the USA Junior Men is a stiff reminder to the senior men’s class that more competition is on the way! The top three boys are performing so well that they would have made the cut into the men’s finals on most rounds. Today was...
Hotel Charley 3 covered in Telluride Daily Planet by Will Richardson | Jun 16, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Jesse Coombs Hey Everyone, For our Telluride Colorado show the local paper did a story on Hotel Charley 3: The Lost World. Check out the article here: http://jessecoombs.com/media.html Best Jesse
Fantasy, aka Freezing Falls by Will Richardson | Jun 16, 2008 | Heros, WhitewaterPhotos By Darin McQuoid With warm weather spiking Dinkey Creek in a major way, Devin, Ryan Knight and myself hit the road to Sacramento to pick up our great friend Ben Stookesberry who was just getting off his Clear H20 Films tour. After checking flows we opted to...
Jesse Coombs Exposed in Outside Magazine by Will Richardson | Jun 14, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Jesse Coombs Hey Everyone, I am very fortunate to have a photo of me on Lower Mesa falls in the Exposed section of the July issue of Outside Magazine. Many thanks to Lucas Gilman for nailing the shot! Check out this link for the cover and photo. Best...
Heros on the Waterfalls of Dinkey by Will Richardson | Jun 14, 2008 | Heros, WhitewaterPhotos By Darin McQuoid After getting off the East Fork Kaweah, Devin Knight, Ryan Knight and I headed up to the well known classic two day run on Dinkey Creek, ‘The Waterfalls’ section. We met up with good friends Little Dave and Ben Coleman at the...
Prelims for national Championships were heated! by Will Richardson | Jun 14, 2008 | Kid's Kayaks, WhitewaterPhotos The water levels dropped today turning the wave/hole into more of a hole. The junior men started the contest off and it was a hot competition! The kids came from every corner of the USA and were as young as 10 and up to 18 years old. The kids did entry moves,...
2008 National Championships/USA Team Trials start today! by Will Richardson | Jun 14, 2008 | WhitewaterPhotos Today is a big day in the world of Freestyle Kayaking for American paddlers. It is the National Championships! The Arkansas River in Salida, Colorado is running at 2,500 cfs, a high level. The Carnival is in town for the event, bringing turkey legs, rides that...
Slingshot your skills in Washington DC: Paddling clinics with Stephen Wright next weekend! by Will Richardson | Jun 13, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Stephen Wright I’ll be in DC next weekend-June 21 &22 to teach clinics through Valley Mill Kayak School for anyone looking to take their paddling to the next level. These classes will be FUN, help you improve during the clinic, AND develop a plan to...
Edward sends this great trip report from Tybee Island… by Will Richardson | Jun 11, 2008 | Day Tripper, Recreational/TouringThe first thing you see when you approach Tybee Island, Georgia is the marsh- soooooo much of that beautiful marsh and it’s many rivers that are just waiting for motorboats, jet skis and, yes, kayaks. The first time we went to Tybee Island I told my wife, Pam,...
"LP" Palmer Pueblo Park Session Video by Will Richardson | Jun 11, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Michael Palmer
Colorado Wrap Up 2008 by Will Richardson | Jun 10, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Emily Jackson This year was one of the biggest Snow Packs in Colorado’s History but the snow isn’t what I was excited for. It was the water it was going to turn into. We started off in Buena Vista for the CKS Paddle Fest and helped promote our sponsors...
