Aug 3 2010
While killing some time in Smithers before our flight into the Sustut River System Steve Hunt and myself met up with Corey Box for a run on East Boulder Creek. East Boulder is a classic run just out side of town. The run is short, gorgeous, and vertical. The run starts with a 20 footer [...]
Jul 20 2010
With most of the Chilliwack River Rafting crew back in town one of our first missions to kick off the spring melt was a double header on Silver Hope Creek and a mini exploratory run on Boston Bar Creek. We drove north out of the town of Hope up the Coquihalla Hwy and stopped just before the tunnel. [...]
Mar 23 2010
Normally March in Victoria (Australia, not the Island) means hot weather and many beach missions while we wait, anticipating imminent departure toward Canada for another season of creeking. After driving an 11000km loop in search of whitewater and waves (kayakthekimberley.com) we returned home to find 1 in 100 year storms had devastated the state and [...]
Feb 16 2010
The Ash River on Vancouver Island is a hydro controlled river. It doesn’t usually release water in early February but that’s exactly what it was doing while we were there on a three-day boating tour for Curtis’ Birthday. We’re not sure why there was such good flow but we weren’t going to complain. The flows [...]
Feb 4 2010
Dagger’s Mamba series of kayaks have generally been classified as river runners. Although I spent some time in the Mamba when I was learning to paddle I always felt “river runners” were a compromise, or half of two boats. There were lots of play boats and full on creek boats at my disposal in our [...]
