Well I did it ladies and gentlemen, I did what I set out to do.  I have joined the ranks of Heehaw Jones and I believe I have taken the first(however small) steps to curing cancer and other tragic ailments.  The title of Midwest Intermediate Freestyle Champion is mine!
The weekend started with a playboating clinic [...]

Now I know I have mentioned this a number of times before, but this was one of the best weekends I have ever had paddling.  I’m sure I keep saying this due to a number of factors which always result in great times but the song remains the same(reference anybody?).  I’m sure you’re asking yourself, [...]

My apologies for my absence from blogging.  I have no excuse…I’ve just been lazy…ya know, too much paddling.
Since I last wrote,  my buddies and I took a  trip all along the Appalacians.  Dusty and I met Cowboy and Friendly, loaded up  a trailer with 8 boats and hit the road.  Three days on the Ocoee didn’t [...]

Well a few weeks ago, the rains came….and they didn’t stop.  Record rainfall pounded the midwest and the rivers didn’t take long to rise.  On the Friday before the floods, the Root River was running at about 500-700cfs.  This fun but tame level would be the start to a weekend nobody will soon forget. 
Sidelined by [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Well the past few weeks have been quite relaxed as far as paddling goes.  I spent 3 weekends in a row paddling in the north woods of Wisconsin.  We had some pretty good levels on the Wolf River and had an amazing time at Pabst-A-Palooza but the whitewater was tame by most peoples standards…up until [...]

Hot Damn!  These past two weekends have been absolutely amazing.  Last weekend, saturated grounds, snow melt, and rains provided epic playboating conditions on my favorite local spot.  The Root River was raging at 2,500 CFS when I pulled up friday morning.  With levels this good, I was astonished to only see Adrian, Jon, and I [...]

Well after much deliberation and closely watching the radar….I hopped in the Crush Mobile with MPG, Blue, and of course Orange Crush to take on West Virginia.  Although water levels were questionable at the time, rain was in the forecast and we knew the weather would pull through for the Hoosiers and Rapid Renegades.  12 [...]

It’s springtime and you don’t have to travel far to find phenominal playboating.  Going on weekend trips are fun and all, but so is an hour drive to park and play.  Standing waves are sometimes hard to find  on rivers…but not on the Root.  Waves are a plentiful feature on this river. 
MPG and I rolled in during [...]

After spending a weekend in our creekboats last week, MPG and I were ready to get back in our playboats and hit some waves.  A local favorite spot was running at a good level so we decided to head up for the day.  MPG pulled into Chicago to see a little snow on the ground [...]

Well as any whitewater paddler knows, the destination you have when you leave, is not always where you end up.  Earlier last week, WV seemed like the place to be.  By the end of the week however, TN had enough water and was forecasted to have more, we immediately turned our sights down south.
After picking [...]