Tieton this Weekend

Hit up the Tieton for some playboating and drinking where we met some great Seattle folk and told rediculous stories until the wee hours of the night!

Good Weekend!

A friend of mine that I met the last time I was out in Colorado came out to visit this weekend to do some backpacking and head out to the Oregon coast. We did an overnighter near Mt Hood on Friday and Saturday, then headed to the coast for Saturday and Sunday!

Finally Got Out Biking!

So, I convinced Nate to rent a bike and hit the trails with me!! We took off towards Mt Hood, about a half an hour drive, and hit a 15 miler. One of the more fun trails i've hit in a while!

Paddlemania....more like a drink-a-thon....low water

Wausau Whitewater

I have to give props to the designers of the new and improved course in Wausau. They have made it fun to playboat again!!! Not only do they have more features, but more variety. Over the last two weeks, i have spent about 18 hours purely just playboating there, and i still leave wanting more!! By the time i'm tired of one hole, i just float down 100 feet or so and have another great hole to figure out......i love it!!! Most definetly the best play in the Midwest!

More Colorado pics

Colorado '07

This last week has been one to remember. One of the best paddling trips to date. We ran some hard stuff, some easy stuff, and hit up some play parks. Sarted the week off meeting of with london Nick and Stingl in Ft. Collins to run some sections of the Poudre. Hit up Spencer Hights and a juiced level, the rustic section, and the upper and lower Mishiwaka sections. Then drove over to Lawson and did Clear Creek from Lawson down to Idaho Springs, all of that on just Saturday and Sunday!!! Camped up in the mountains that night, and hit up the Lawson play hole on Clear Creek the next morning until early afternoon, then headed south to Beuna Vista to Joe Carroll's pad. Shortly after arriving there, the team Wavesport van shows up at his house and set up camp. It was fun hearing some of the stories some of the pro's had to share....no so far off fetch from some of the dumb shit that we do, suprisingly. We stayed between Granite and the Royal Gorge for the remainder of the week. The Arkansas river was cranked to around 2000 cfs at the numbers, and around 2800 cfs in the gorge, making for great playboat riverun/play runs all week. Huge wavetrains and massive holes in the gorge....a lot of fun! We got disco-d wednesday night with Ben Guska and Joe-c in BV and from then on it was off to Fibark in Salida for the night life and great music! We missed finals due to a cancelation from weather on Saturday night because we had to hit the road on sunday morning...bummer~

John Muir Trail

Hooked up with a buddy i met on my last visit to Colorado down in the Kettle Moraine State Forest trail called John Muir. Named after the pioneer of a lot of public access trails in the state and also founder of the Sierra Club. These are full on mountain bike trails with several different difficulty and length options. There is also a connector trail to the Emma Carlin trails which are the next step up. Steep, and fun! They had some of the 10 mile loop closed due to a lot of rain in the area the last couple of days, so we did what we could twice, maybe about 14 or 15 miles. Halfway through our second loop, down came the rain. It was a fricken blast! Riding out the last few miles of the trail in downpoor that you could hardly see through, wish i had a camera on me, but oh well.

Ocoee

A group of five of us went down to the Ocoee (oh-no-wee) last weekend to get some boating in. According to some of the locals, it was flowing at its highest flow in about two years. The upper and middle sections were running, so we got a chance to check out some of the play features on the olympic course down there. To be honest with you...not that impressed. I have more fun at Wausau! We met some great peeps and did have a pretty darn good time. Ran into some folks that i paddled with at Rock Island in January, one of which took 3rd at Reno this year (jonathan). We drove all night on Friday and got about 2 hours of sleep on saturday morning, so by the end of that day of paddling, we were all pretty pooped. Managed to make time for a beer at the rafting companies little outside bar though. I was a little dissapointed with the river though to be honest. I was hoping for a little bit more challenging rapids and a bit deeper play features...aside from hell hole, which i had the biggest loop of my life in and we finished out sunday on and hit up for a few hours monday morning before heading home. Great weather, and scenery the whole weekend! I will be in Colorado in a week and am really looking forward to it, hopefully i will get some great pics to throw up~peace

Pabstapalooza '07

This weekend was a blast and pure fun! The bands were incredible and the turn out was a lot better than expected. Met some new paddlers and did a wee bit too much partying. The down river race was really fun and wasnt too serious....and yes i won it. The rodeo was at Pemene and was judged on a concensus by the team Pabst crew. I think Dave Lemke won that. And the carnage award went to the almighty Mike Manger....poor bastard! All and all i there were probably about 23 paddlers or so...give or take a few. I cant wait until next year~