As an athlete, there are many points in our lives where things just don’t seem to work out. There are also an exceeding number of times when things not only work out but go better than planned. I’d like to discuss when they don’t go as planned. For the last month or two, I have […]
Category: river description
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 […]
Learning To Fail: River Lessons
[Video at the end of the post ] I was finally able to cross one river off my bucket list: Overflow. It’s been a long time coming. It’s been on my bucket list for probably over 5 years. I just never had the right crew or the right circumstances. At least that is what I […]
Continue with Hood River
I’m going to attempt to make this short because I don’t really have much media to go along with it and no one really wants to read… Day 3 of Washington Boating: The Green Truss. If I would not have been on vacation, I would not have gotten in my boat on this day nor […]
Introduction to Hood River Boating
After getting off the South Fork of the Salmon, Becca and I stayed at a friend’s place in Boise and then headed to the Hood River area the following morning. I was super excited about this for multiple reasons. Mainly, I had never been there before. We rolled into town and got out our playboats […]
