The Middle Fork… of the Payette?

by Micah Kneidl | May 4, 2018 | Creeking, rivers, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Everybody has heard of the Payette River, and many of you are probably familiar with various sections of the Payette, but not so many people are familiar specifically with the Middle Fork of the Payette River. To get to the Middle Fork, drive towards beautiful Garden...

The Same River Twice Part II

by Hilde Schweitzer | Jul 24, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Antix, Internationalisation, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

The River… It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we’ve had together! Kenneth Grahame Time doesn’t follow a linear...

Magic Middle fork of the Applegate

by Jessie Stone | Jun 28, 2017 | Creeking, Internationalisation, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Every Spring, I feel like a homing device gets activated in me that says “Go as soon as you can to Southern Oregon”. In 1995, I went there to the Rogue River to be spend a summer as an AB (Assistant Boatman) at Sundance Expeditions. There I rowed boats on the Wild and...

The elusive first descent

by chad | May 10, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Creeking, rivers, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Oh the elusive “first descent”. If you have been kayaking for any length of time I am sure you have heard the term. Living in the Appalachian Mountains of TN, waterfalls and creeks that have not been run are very hard to find in this day and age. Most of...

One Hot Minute w/ Bridge Creek

by Brett Barton | Jul 30, 2014 | Whitewater

Bridge Creek flows south from North Cascades National Park, eventually into the north end of Lake Chelan. An underexplored gem in the middle of nowhere!! Look for flows on the Stehekin to be above 2000 for a good trip. Get on this run soon, the water will be gone...

Middle Kings: Trip of a Lifetime

by Hunt Jennings | Jul 20, 2012 | Whitewater

It is hard for me to describe the Middle Kings in words. Even after researching, and asking numerous people about the run in the weeks leading up to this trip, nothing prepared me for the journey that three friends and I began at the trailhead to Bishop’s Pass. The...

John Glenn Middle School Checking In.

by JK Fans | May 22, 2012 | Whitewater

As the JK educational guy i get to work with loads of great programs that work to get people excited on kayaking. What could be better than that? Seeing some of the super posative results that these programs get. Travis Stewart just sent me this email and photos of...

desperate PFD substitute on Bald Rock

by stephenwright | Feb 21, 2010 | JK Team Posts

I got to Bald Rock on the Middle Feather yesterday, only to discover that I had forgotten my PFD.  My stupidity aside, I did have a minor excuse: I had loaded my pfd into my Villain S proto which is still en route from Rock Island to Reno.  I just forgot to load my...

Mission: Boating, Teaching and having a good time at it.

by Billy Harris | Oct 15, 2009 | Whitewater

I love teaching…. I got 5 girls on the weekend that were all beginners from a local ottawa club…. Here are some photos…. We had a great time. Piano keys, with the dog, carving turns with the ladies all in all it was a blast…. The second day we...

Keenerville

by Clay Wright | Aug 5, 2007 | JK Team Posts

Right on the banks of the Ottawa river, in full view of the line-up for Left Side and Baby-face is the previous home where Ken and Nicole Whiting trained for and won the 97 World Championships – ‘Robertsons’. Luckily for us, the cabins on this site...