Author Archives: boilerblues


Glacier Trip Info Posted

Photos, a Google Earth map, a trip summary, and other info about our trip to Glacier National Park has been posted.
Trip Info Here

Ready to go again

Other than pool sessions I haven’t been in my boat for a few weeks.  Last time I had such a blast and I’m ready to go again.  However, I’m going hiking in Glacier next week.  This has been a dream of mine for a long time, so I’ve been careful not to hurt myself before [...]

July 4 - Dependance Day

God has been working on some things in me lately.  I’m an independent person, I tend to do my own thing when I feel like doing it and I hate asking for help.  Going to movies or a nice dinner are about the only things that I won’t do by myself.  Yet God is teaching [...]

Keeping your head

So I went up to the whitewater course yesterday and had a great day of kayaking.  When I went a month ago I was pretty scared, this time I was pretty comfortable.  I knew the course and knew that I could handle it.  That doesn’t mean it won’t humble me from time to time, but [...]

Roll, roll, roll your boat…..

The boat is loaded up for the pool session tonight.  My plan is to work mostly on my offside roll, which is semi reliable.  Most of the time I get up ok, but I’m not super confident in it.  My roll on my on-side is more of a sweep roll, where my off side is [...]

My first playboat?

Right now I’m paddling a Dagger Mamba 8.5  I love the boat and will hold onto it as long as I’m doing whitewater.  However, it has rather limited abilities as a playboat.  I’m not someone who is super brave in advancing in the sport, I’m pretty slow and cautious.  But in my weekly pool sessions [...]

First Run on Class II

A couple of weeks ago I had my first time on Class I Whitewater. This was at the East Race in South Bend, IN. Jordan was able to get some video of Sharon leading me down my first run.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjUxLdhWi…

First Post

This is yet another blog, we’ll see how much I post to it. You can find most of my stuff through my site at www.boilerblues.com