Wet Virginia: Clay n Owen venture North by Will Richardson | May 17, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Clay Wright Southeast Spring continued … After watching the rains and hearing the tales we finally got out of Rock Island for the 7 hour trip to Fayetteville WV. We’re on the tail end of the water, but who can argue with Mill creek at 2” and 6900...
The Crash Course: The 2nd episode by Will Richardson | May 16, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Ben Stookesberry To promote my two favorite websites in the world Jacksonkayak.com and oregonkayaking.net we are letting all the folks at the tour events know about an Internet only release of 10 segments of the Crash Course on these two sites. These are the video...
Salt Lake City hosts Hotel Charley 3 and Expression Session by Will Richardson | May 16, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Jesse Coombs Hey Everyone, As part of our Hotel Charley 3 tour we did a show in Salt Lake City with brothers Charlie and Dwight of Wasatch Touring. In the fall of 2007 Charlie told me that he wanted to organize an Expression Session rodeo for the Sunday before the...
EJ gets a front row seat at the Hotel Charley 3: Lost World premier! by Will Richardson | May 15, 2008 | WhitewaterI finally got to see Hotel Charley: Lost World in Reno this past weekend! Wow! When Ben and Jesse told me that they were stepping it up and pushing the envelope in whitewater films they weren’t messing around. This film is unique in the way it introduces the...
Jackson Family Fun at Reno by Will Richardson | May 15, 2008 | WhitewaterThis past weekend in Reno was awesome for me as a dad. I had the opportunity to paddle with my kids all week and prepare for the big event with them. Emily was pushing herself and getting better every day, while really feeling good about her progress. Dane was trying...
Paddle Away From Drugs! by Will Richardson | May 15, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Devon Barker Wednesday, May 14th, brought exciting paddle times to Meadows Valley Elementary students in New Meadows, Idaho. Brent LaFay and Devon Barker brought Dare to Kayak to thirty students. The students paddled in the local hot spring, Zims, where they...
Brazil Part 5: The Third Week by Will Richardson | May 15, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Jesse Coombs Hey Everyone, In my latest story regarding Brazil Travel: The Second Week, I wrote about us finding huge waterfalls and running some of them and the anxiety of looking at a 140′ falls. In this next edition of my Brazil travel journals I FINALLY...
Brazil Part 4: The Second Week by Will Richardson | May 15, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Jesse Coombs Hey Everyone, In my latest story regarding Brazil Travel: The First Week, I write about us finding amazing scenery, local color and hard to believe white water. I still do not have my lost luggage kayaks yet, but the journey presses forward. This next...
Jim Litchfield sends me these Reno Fest Photos by Will Richardson | May 14, 2008 | WhitewaterPhotos Look for a Reno article coming soon. I haven’t had time to write one yet. However, it was an incredible event, as always, only bigger this year than ever before! With 45,000+ spectators over 3 days and as many as 10,000 at a time during the Finals, it was...
Rodrigo from Chile sends in this request for help and the most amazing, but terrible photos by Will Richardson | May 14, 2008 | WhitewaterMay 13, 2008 By Rodrigo Tuschner Hello there Jackson Kayak Family and Crew; This is a incredible bad news from the Patagonis Chile; The Chaiten Volcano is in total eruption from the last three week, Chaiten, futaleufu and all the small town arrow are totally...
Devin Knight Super Hero Review by Will Richardson | May 14, 2008 | Heros, Rockers, WhitewaterPhotos As far as the new Super Hero goes, whew! Where to start…. I guess with the beginning! First time I even saw the boat was when Jesse showed up at my house with Ben to edit the new Hotel Charlie video. We needed a break from the work so kayaking was in...
Finishing up School, Ready for Summer ! by Will Richardson | May 14, 2008 | WhitewaterBy Ben Guska Well, I am sitting here with one more final tomorrow. It should be a breeze though so I’m ready for summer. This has been one of the most intense, stressful, tiring last 9 months of my life! I am taking time to reflect the last 9 months, and to me a...
