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Wet Planet’s Kids Kayaking Course Day 4

The final day came so quickly . . .
Day 4
Right away, we loaded up and headed for the river . . .

We hit the Lower White Salmon again today. The kids were so excited to run the “Cave wave” rapid again. This day, we worked on communicating on the river through paddle signals - the [...]

Wet Planet’s Kids Kayaking Course Day 3

Day 3
The kids showed up the third day with sleepy eyes and big smiles. These kids had been working hard the first two days, with two more days to go . . . and they were stoked. We spent the morning building our own river out of a throw rope, big rocks and [...]

Wet Planet’s Kids Kayaking Course Day 2

Day 2
We spent the entire day on a small section of the Hood River. We spent the morning working on strokes, edging, eddy turns and bracing. After practicing “skills” for a while, we played games before lunch.

After lunch, we actually did a little river running section of the Hood river. The kids were really [...]

Wet Planet’s Kids Kayaking Course Day 1

Wow! What an amazing 4 days with the kids! On August 6th, Wet Planet held their second annual kid’s kayaking course for ages 10-12. Wet Planet Whitewater is located in the beautiful Columbia Gorge, which makes it a treat to paddle local rivers, for any age group. We had three returning [...]

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The World Kayak initiative would like to announce the recent creation of a new blog Worldkayakblogs.com. This is a first post on this blog’s behalf.

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