Hope to see you there!
May 1 – Cascade, KWP (Saturday)
May 20 – Horseshoe Bend, Gutter (Saturday)
June 12 – Cascade, KWP (Saturday)
June 24 – Horseshoe Bend, Gutter (Thursday)
July 5 – Cascade, KWP (Monday)
July 24 – Horseshoe Bend, Gutter (Saturday)
Aug 6 – Cascade, KWP (Friday)
Aug 19 – Horseshoe Bend, Gutter (Thursday)
If your an Idaho paddler, or visiting Idaho to paddle – don’t forget to get your Idaho Invasive Species stickers. Cost is $5 for the year. Go HERE for more info!
Idaho Rivers United has presented “Stop the Twin Springs Dam” petitions with over 500 signatures to the Idaho Water Resource Board. We will continue to gather signatures and present them to the Board. Please sign the petition today and encourage your friends to sign it too.
Sign our Petition to the Idaho Water Board
While we do have snow at our house in Horseshoe Bend, we don’t have much. River levels may be a little more ‘normal’ this year unless precip picks up… You can also check out the Snow-Water Equivalent graph for Payette Basin HERE.
by Associated Press
Posted on January 13, 2010 at 10:44 AM
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TWIN FALLS — A report from the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service shows that snowpack levels across Idaho are lower than normal, but could still recover if precipitation picks up.
The Times-News reports that the numbers from the Conservation Service show most streams and rivers in south-central Idaho could run at just half or 70 percent of their average flows this spring and summer.
According to the National Weather Service, Idaho was one of only four states in the contiguous U.S. to get below-average rain and snow in December.
OK, time to get those permits in! Go HERE for links to get your dates in.
You can visit their site HERE!
Calendar for 2009-2010
| 4 Nov 09 | 1st Member Meeting | Idaho River Sports |
| 2 Dec 09 | Xmas Party | Idaho River Sports |
| 6 Jan 10 | Home Movie Night | Idaho River Sports |
| 3 Feb 10 | Dutch Oven Cook-off | Cascade Outfitters |
| 3 Mar 10 | Annual Membership Meeting & Elections | AIRE Factory |
| 7 Apr 10 | Safety Skills Night | Cascade Outfitters |
| 23-25 Apr 10 | Used Equipment Sale | Idaho River Sports |
| 7 Aug 10 | Safety Saturday | Banks Put-In |
Check out Devons report on Lower Salmon surfing HERE!
Our LAST Hometown Throwdown of the 2009 season is FRIDAY, Sept 4th at the Gutter.
5:30 for registration and hit the wave at 6pm. I’ll bring my grill, so bring you favorite grill food for after the event if you would like to stick around! As usual we will draw for prizes after the event.
Want to test out a new ‘10 Star series boat?? You can at the Throwdown! We are teaming up with Alpenglow Mountainsport in order to add Jackson Kayak Demo-Daze to the mix. Alpenglow will provide a slew of boats for you to test out during the evening including the 2010 Star series. Alpenglow also has all 2010 Star models in stock and available for Demos including the new MonStar!
If possible, please register for the event online at http://worldkayakblogs.com/throwdown/register/ (then click on the link for Boise Throwdown #6). If you have ANY problems creating a login, registering, etc – let me know. I can fix you up pretty fast.
Hope to see you there!
Our 5th of 6 Hometown Throwdowns is tonight at the gutter. 5:30 to register – 6pm get wet!
Check out pics from last weeks Throwdown HERE!
Since Tyler and I had such a blast last weekend I snagged Troy and we drove to Riggins on Friday for an overnighter on the Salmon. Alot of checking stuff out so we have a better feel for what we want to hit this fall.
First we hit couch even though it was about 1K from being ‘in’, and it wasn’t great, but still could catch a little surf in more of a hole.
Then ran back down the road to hit Peace Wave (Pic above is Troy on Peace). It was about 500cfs on the high side, but still could catch some nice soul surfing. Troy caught some really nice rides. Hard to do moves on at 6.5K, but should be great fun at 5.5K-ish! But at this level you could front surf all day. The only catch to this sweet wave is the ‘eddie’ – which is actually just slower water that extends only about 50′ below the wave. Miss that and you catch the eddie below and make the short walk back up. I wasn’t sure, but turns out it’s woth the walks – I only made the first eddy once 
Spent the night on a sandy beach – just threw our bags out and had a great night under the stars.
Saturday Morning we tried Machine Wave. Machine was at the top end of ‘in’ and was more of a fast ledge-hole. We each took a couple of spins and then decided to spend the rest of the time on Peace Wave.
So ready to go back already, I’m hooked on the lower Salmon!
Machine Wave
Peace Wave
Peace Wave
& Garmin