Paul Martzen Honored

Recently, Paul Martzen was honored, by AW, for his work on the San Joaquin River. You can read about it at HERE!


Paul I'm sure I speak for everybody in our sport, when I say we are proud of you and greatful for all of your hard work.

Spring Break on the Kings

This time of year the Kings river is beautiful. There are wild flowers everywhere you look and the boating is a lot of fun. We had a great group boating with us, and had a lot of fun.

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Willow Creek

Hey there campers,

We're just getting back from our low water adventure on Willow Creek. Daniel, Dan, Dan #3, Ian Berkley (from San Jose area), and Myself decided 40-50cfs would be a good flow to give it a go. We were wrong. Shortly after putting on, we realized that we needed at least 60+ cfs to make it fun. At 40-50cfs, it was a lot of work with periods of fun. All in all it was a good day.

Dan hits his boof

Junkie section

Our main objective was to document this run for the AW page, and I feel that we did that fairly well. We took tons of pictures and lots of video, and we'll be updating the AW page shortly. I'll post here when it's ready. If you decide to run this section, there is a pretty camp ground at the Take Out. You can run the upper, camp for the night, then run the lower section the next day. You are also just a few minutes from Big Creek, another fantastic run.

Evan slides while Dan stretches

We hope you enjoy the video. It should give you an idea of what this run is all about.
To sum it up, it's lots of fun drops and slides, a really junkie section, and then 3-4 more quality drops. Is it worth all the effort? Not at this flow, but at a higher flow it's a good time.

We'll be hitting the lower section of Willow Creek in the next week or so. Stay tuned.

Take care

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April Fools Day on the Merced

On Saturday March 31st we had twelve paddlers on the Merced River. We did a nice easy run from Guage Hole down to Briceburg. There was plenty of playing along the way. Allison did great, as usual, and Lisa did very well paddling on her first river. Both of these women have great balance.

A group of five paddlers headed to Redbud campground for our overnight stay. After setting up camp we headed out to do some scouting of the Merced Gorge. There is some awesome whitewater along that stretch. Later we were joined by Dan Hogg and the next morning by Jeremy Lynn.

Sunday morning we took our time getting up and getting ready to hit the river. The put-in was Nightmare Island, which proved to be merely a "daydream". We continued down the river and enjoyed lots of playing along the way.

The sight of the day was seeing Dan disappear into a hole and then get launched, like a rocket, four to six feet into the air. IT WAS WILD!

Good times.........

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Merced River April Fools' Day

Merced strikes again

The Merced delivered again with another beautiful day. Mike, Hans, Jeff, and myself had a nice ride down. Jeff is quickly becoming a really strong boater. It's been fun watching him progress.

At the end of the day, everyone agreed that, while the paddling was great, watching Mike playboat in a canoe was the very memorable. I look forward to running more rivers with you all soon.

Evan

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Kayaking The Merced on 3-14-7

Jeremy, Brandi and I headed to the Merced River again. This river is on the top of our list for fun right now. It's flowing, lots of fun holes, and very little flat water paddling.

We started at the South Fork and continued past Briceburg. When we got to Split Rock (class IV) we all got out and scouted. We decided to run it one at a time with two of us staying on the side of the river for safety. Jeremy and Brandi got into a discussion about who was going to get to go first. Brandi usually wins the argument and gets to go first. Jeremy got to go first this time. Brandi wasn't too happy with his run and later was heard saying, "if you dink over, then just dink-up". I am actually thinking of making that into a bumper sticker now. "If you dink over, just dink up".

Enjoy the Video!
Larry

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Kayaking the Merced River on 3-14-7

Brandi rocks at Satan's Cesspool

Brandi and I headed up to the S.F. American River on Saturday March 2, 2007. The flows were pushy at 2,200 cfs. Lots of water in the narrow gorge. We both had some fun challenges with some sticky holes. No swims on this beautiful day though. It was sunny and warm.

Enjoy the video!
Larry

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Brandi runs Satan's Cesspool