World Kayak Event Coverage

Boise’s final Hometown Throwdown of the year was a great finish to the series. We even had a special guest appearance by Reno Jackson paddler Sage Donnelly. If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting this little gal, you are missing out – she is personality-plus!   (and a great little paddler!)
Seth Stoenner owned [...]

Boise’s 4th Throwdown was held under clear skies and a comfortable 80 degrees (usually hovering around 100 right now!) We had a ton of spectators at this event, which made it even more fun.
The crew from Cascade Raft showed up again and our slew of youth. Our friend and long time paddler Willard dedcided not [...]

Both weather and action at Boise’s 3rd Hometown Throwdown for 2009 was HOT! This has to be
the most fun I’ve had at a Throwdown for a few reasons.
1. We had the new 2010 Star and AllStar to check out – in a word…SWEET, I WANT ONE! (Ok,
that was four, but that’s the best I could [...]

Last weekend we had a great time at the Payette & Boise River (PBR) Revival. Despite some threatening weather, even a little rain, the event was a blast! Jackson Kayak Regional Paddler Mark Cecchini wrote the following  report of the weekends event and results are posted at the bottom:
The 2009 PBR Revival went off just [...]

For the first time a Boise Throwdown was threatened by bad weather. We have been fortunate and always had sunny weater and reasonable temps. Last night, however, with only an hour to go until showtime we had a huge thunderstorm pass over Horseshoe Bend and pelt us with hail and lots of lightning. But by [...]

Unlike Reno, Boise’s Throwdown was sunny and beautiful – temp at kickoff was 63. Payette river levels have been great for the past couple of weeks and while the water is still cold it is fare more comfortable than March.
It was great to see everyone again and it was great to catch up with those [...]

[singlepic=1044,320,240,,left]Boise’s last Homtown Throwdown of the season was a great finish to our Throwdown series – hard to believe it’s over for the season. Temps near 80, lots of sun, great contestants and spectators made for an enjoyable evening. Even with school in full swing we had gaggle of kids and several adults ready to [...]

[singlepic=898,320,240,,left]Last night was Boise’s 4th Hometown Throwdown and what a pleasant evening. The weather was sunny, but temps were only in the low 80’s, so even those of us on shore were comfortable. Again the Jr’s out numbered the adults. Thirteen competitors made three rides in the hole, and one scored downriver event. Our youngest [...]

Since our June Hometown Throwdown was canceled due to maintenance on the hydro plant, Thursdays Throwdown was our third. We have added an event on September 11th to make up for the June cancelation.
Weather was outstanding with temps in the mid 90’s and even with many of our regulars on vacation we had 10 juniors [...]

Hey Everyone – just to let you know we are rescheduling the June 19th Boise Hometown Throwdown to Thursday September 11th at 5:30pm. The Gutter is currently de-watered for maintenance and looks to be that way until early next week.
New schedule now looks like this:
#3 July 17th
#4 August 21st
#5 September 11th
So have a great [...]

Boise’s 2nd Hometown Throwdown was again greeted by fantastic weather and plenty of water. Temps hit 82 by showtime and life was good. The river was sitting at 7440cfs and this presented a little problem with the entry into the third (and at this level, bottom) wave-hole that required a very determined approach and entry [...]

We were blessed with some great weather for the first Throwdown of the year in Boise. We had a slew of kids with supportive parents and I had more volunteers than I could use. We were fortunate to have Devon Barker and Michael Leeds as judges! The junior class dominated the event with eight kids [...]