Rodrigo from Kayak Pucon, a Team JK member, sends in his end of summer in Chile update by Will Richardson | Apr 16, 2009 | Heros, Rockers, WhitewaterBy Rodrigo Tuschner Rodrigo is one of those special people that makes kayaking better for everyone. Paddlers from all over the world have gone down to the Pucon to run some of the greatest rivers, creeks, and waterfalls in the world. Upon arriving, there is no better...
Mission: good times, time to leave and doggie mayhem by Will Richardson | Apr 13, 2009 | Heros, WhitewaterPhotos By Billy Harris Each season I bounce out of my warm winter spot for home. Talk of 30 foot high levels we haven’t seen in years at home on the Ottawa and the longing for some family time push us north once again. Its hard living out of a bag. You have a...
Annual Kaweah weekend by Will Richardson | Apr 13, 2009 | Heros, Rockers, WhitewaterPhotos By Darin McQuoid Every spring we seem to get a cold spell in Northern California. This year it was during Ryan Knights spring break, so we had to go somewhere. When it’s cold, that somewhere tends to be the Kaweah. Thus we made the trek for the third year...
"There are Stars in the Southern Sky, Southward as you go…." A Mexican Experience with my Son, Son to be, and Friends… by Will Richardson | Apr 10, 2009 | Heros, Kid's Kayaks, WhitewaterMy first born son, Dane, is only 15 years old. We headed way South last week, as far as the Guatemala border as I type this on the remaining battery power of my laptop while Dane sleeps next to me in our $3/night cabana in Chiapas. Also, Nick, 20 years old, and living...
U of Idaho Whitewater Majors by Will Richardson | Apr 9, 2009 | Heros, WhitewaterApril 1, 2009 Photos By Devon Barker This weekend I taught Women in Whitewater Extravaganza clinic with Senior Heidi Ando at University of Idaho. Heidi is majoring in Outdoor Recreation and as her senior project she held a two day clinic for women in whitewater. She...
Family Life- Paddling Life- Business Life- all in Flux…Big Month coming up.. by Will Richardson | Mar 30, 2009 | Heros, Rockers, WhitewaterIt is March 30, 2009 and I am in Atlanta, Georgia preparing to embark on a journey to another world, and another time in the lives of my family. At 7pm tonight Dane, Nick, Clay, Trevor, and I leave for Mexico City, Mexico where we will celebrate the last 10 days of...
EJ and family at High Country Outfitters in Atlanta this weekend by Will Richardson | Mar 25, 2009 | Dynamic Duo, Heros, Kid's Kayaks, WhitewaterI am coming down to Atlanta on the way to Mexico this weekend for some time at the High Country store, a swimming pool session, and the a paddling day on the Chattahoochee. Bubba Sloan is an old friend of mine that has created an incredible retail store in Buckhead...
Creek Week & AW Raffle Success – nearly $1400 for AW! by Will Richardson | Mar 17, 2009 | 2010 Star, Classic Stars, Heros, Kid's Kayaks, WhitewaterBy Boyd Ruppelt Every March nearly a hundred river rats of various skill levels take over Pickett State Park on the Cumberland Plateau in TN for an event put on by Memphis Whitewater. They take over the bunkhouses of the "Group Camp" in the park, eat...
Headliner: 2.3 Inches of Rain on the cumberland Plateau- Life is good! by Will Richardson | Mar 16, 2009 | Dynamic Duo, Heros, Kid's Kayaks, Rockers, WhitewaterPhotos This was an epic Rock Island Weekend! Yesterday was a run down the Upper Caney Fork River with three Dynamic Duos. Clay and David (from Brazil), Emily and Nick, and dane and I all ran down the 8 mile run along with some folks from Knoxville. What a great run!...
A Beautiful Day on Giant Gap by Will Richardson | Mar 13, 2009 | Heros, WhitewaterPhotos By Stephen Wright I had the pleasure of joining Darin McQuoid and 3 other good friends for a sunny day of beautiful paddling on the Giant Gap section of the North American on Wednesday. I’d never been able to run this section before, though I had always...
Rafa cleans Anaconda Falls by Will Richardson | Mar 3, 2009 | Heros, WhitewaterBy Ben Stookesberry I could not wait anylonger to let all of the folks at JK know that Rafael Ortiz has just made a perfect descent of 100 foot or 30 meter Anaconda falls. As yet another feather in the cap of the JK design squad and production staff, Rafa made the...
Pakistan, Indus River – Day Sixteen by Will Richardson | Feb 27, 2009 | Heros, WhitewaterPhotos By Darin McQuoid In my short career of paddling, Pakistan wins the prize for the lowest cost of living once in country. Being a notoriously cheap kayaker, this motel on our fifteenth night was right up my alley at thirty cents per person. We never spent a night...
