Eight LCCCers run Marmot to Marmot on the Sandy on a cloudy day in May. The crew included Greg Davenport, Denny Eger, Will Gehr, Karl Dinkelspiel, Eric and Sienna Lindenauer, Audz and I. Many ran Alder Creek (Class IV), with several lines tried. Level was 2500 cfs. All, except me (I ran it last week), [...]
Audz (playing the role of Goldie) and Karl Dinkelspiel, Juan Bernardo, and myself (playing the role of the bears), paddled the Three Bears (Molalla) on Sunday all the way to Porridge Bowl. Level was 1600 cfs. While there was no sampling of porridge at lunch, there was a mishap with one of the bowls that [...]
Ted Housen took 11 of us (including himself) down the Marmot Bridge to Marmot Dam site (it was removed in 2007). None of us, including Ted, had done the run. Level was 2,100 cfs. The stars of this video though are Bob and Karen Williams, who tandemed, and seemed to have it timed perfectly so [...]
Doug Chisholm, Audrey Bergsma and I all attended the mid-May PaddleTrails Canoe Club Spring Bash as representatives of the LCCC. Also attending was a good-sized contingent from the Vancouver BC Beaver Canoe Club, and Bob Schneider, who might be a member of all three clubs. (I know he’s a member of ours and the Seattle [...]
Some of the same players and some new ones came back to the Hood a week from my last post to run Dee to Tucker. The water was a little higher (1,375 cfs) and on a slow rise. We had less paddle carnage overall, though one more kayak paddle was broken in the line of [...]
Looking at the carnage statistics, one might think we ran the Hood at a high level in dense fog. Two broken kayak paddles, one lost canoe paddle, 8 of 12 paddlers swimming at least one drop (some multiple), and one paddler spraining her ankle at the take out. Four paddlers ran Island (Class 4) without [...]
