It was a fun spring for the Idaho River Kids. Scott Wootten headed up a spring training program for freestyle that included 12 hours of training each week, 4 on Friday afternoons and 8 on Saturdays. The boys went from cautious about surfing in the little hole at the gutter to full on wave surfing [...]
Now it is November and the water is cold. The Gutter kids of the Payette seem to have temporarily lost their passion for the paddle. Now they are looking to the hills for the first snows and dreaming of floating through the powder on skis. We booked a ski vacation and the biggest question of [...]
It was a beautiful fall day on the Payette. Kids club was out in force at the Gutter. The Wilsons were there, the McLoeds, the Vorhees and the Jacksons. Lots of surfing, hole riding, running the drops and just plain enjoying the beautiful day. Lots of Jackson Kayaks. And they gave me good material for [...]
My kids have both discovered kayaking. Re-discovered may be a better description. They have done trips with me in IK’s down the Middle Fork of the Salmon, the Grand Ronde, the Owyhee and others beginning at age 9. But this year, mid summer after a trip down the Middle Fork, the bug hit them for [...]
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