As a teacher, December tends to be a bit crazy. We are trying to wrap up the semester, get grades in and believe it or not, plan for the next semester. Typically winter is crazy for me because I coach basketball but this year I am not coaching for the school, which allows so much […]
Category: kayak destinations

GoPro To Analyze Whitewater Kayaking
I’ve been running the Tallulah Gorge for a while now and have always thought the famous rapid Oceana was not that much about skill and more like rolling the dice. After today I was puzzled because I swam the rapid and I was not entirely sure why. Did I roll the dice wrong? I had […]

Tallulah Is Back
I believe it has been two years since anyone could legally kayak Tallulah Gorge in Georgia. This past weekend she was running and it certainly felt good to be back. I was rusty, starting the first rapid creating a brand new line for myself, one I wouldn’t recommend but worked it out, then rolled into […]

2020 Dirty Bird
Times are crazy, right? Planning for any event right now seems almost impossible so rather than doing what we do every year, we are going to do this year’s Dirty Bird event a bit different – we are just going to get together and paddle. When? July 25. Time? The first group will push off […]

Dirty Bird 2019 Recap
First, let me apologize for being incredibly slack on adding posts. Life seemed to happen. This is far overdue but here we go. Every year Paddle In Pink hosts an event on the Pigeon River in TN to raise money for the Live Like Maria Foundation. The event consists of a group of women all […]

Kayaking on the quiet side
We had been talking about taking a boundary water trip for several years. I think when most people think of the boundary waters they think of spending weeks paddling multiple remote no motor lakes, portaging and camping. I have never been much of a tent camper so the trip was put on hold until our […]