Author Archives: boilerblues


Honeymoon and Kayaking

My fiance and I just booked out honeymoon. We’ll be spending 9 days at a resort in Belize. While we want to take it easy and relax, the resort mentioned that there were opportunities for whitewater kayaking. Anyone know of places offering guide services and gear?

Looking for used 4Fun

I’m looking for a used 07 4Fun, if anyone has one available please let me know!

About to get started

Wednesday night pool sessions have been canceled for 3 months now. I’ve made a couple over in Dayton. But I’ve been in my boat twice since Christmas. April 5 marks the beginning of my kayaking season. I’m excited. I’m hoping my girlfriend is ready to go. She’s excited, but [...]

My kayak is dry…..

I’ll confess that I’m not die hard enough to paddle in cold weather. So it’ll be the pool this winter for me. I’m going to try to make it to pool sessions as much as possible. My girlfriend wants to learn how to kayak so hopefully I’ll be helping her with that [...]

Fun with my new toy

I had a chance to play with my new Super Star in the pool last night.  My old boat is a Dagger Mamba.  I like it, but you can’t do much with a creek boat in a pool.  I had so much fun with the Super Star.  Sharon taught me how to do the back [...]

End of season

I haven’t written on this blog for a while, so I’ll post what has happened since my last posting.
My trip on the Nantahala went well.  I ran it clean from Patton’s Run all the way to Lesser Wesser.  At Lesser Wesser I missed the eddy, so I bombed it straight down the falls.  Fortunately the [...]

Too much rain?

Dang…. so we’ve gone the whole summer in this horrible drought.  Then the week before my goal for the year, running Ohiopyle, the skies open and the festival is postponed due to the water being too high.  Fortunately I’m still able to do it on the back up date, so I’ll be there.  I’ll be [...]

Purdue called, they want my degree back

So last weekend I’m up at the East Race whitewater course paddling and I got inspired.  The worst part about the East Race is that it is half a mile long.  It’s short for paddling, but when you get to the bottom you pick up your boat and carry it a half mile back to [...]

Making good progress

I went up to the East Race whitewater course on Saturday with another guy in the club and I can tell my confidence is growing.  The other guy had never been there before, so I showed him around the course.  My main goal was to work on catching eddys and some hole avoidance to get [...]

Staying with those who struggle

I had some opportunities to learn some humility on this trip to Glacier.  I had two days where I ended up with heat exhaustion.  It really sucks.  The first day I talked with the group, after I caught up with them, about the importance of staying together.  I felt bad about it because I felt [...]