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My Son's Debut in Kayaking!!!
My son, Kenya, born in Jan/97 started paddling in fall of 2006. I purchased extremely light single inflatable kayak (NRS Bandit I) for him. It is only 17 lbs. He first started on a lake (Lake Natoma),...
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McCloud(III),Trinity(III) with Kenya
In the end of July 2007, Kenya and I did Upper McCloud and Trinity Pigeon Point run on Sat and Sun. Upper McCloud river goes into McCloud reservoir and lower McCloud begins below the reservoir and goes...
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SF Silver Creek (V) part2
I did this run last year (2006, please visit my blog), but I portaged two hard rapids, Skycraper and Plastic Surgery. This year (June 2nd, 2007), I ran this run with Evan, Geno, Brandi and Thomas and...
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Pit river (III-IV)
Pit river runs (7 miles) on west slope of north Sierra Nevadas Mtns. It has not been available for summer paddling for a long time. In 2007 summer, there was dam release (~1,000 cfs) for Pit river run...
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Cherry Creek (V)
Upper Tuolumne (Cherry Creek [V])Doing this run has been one of my dreams since I moved to CA. This is called Cherry Creek, but cherry creek section below Holm power house is only one mile. The rest of...
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Truckee river (II+)
Truckee river (Boca to Floriston, II+ with two classIVs)I ran from Boca to Floriston of this river in mid August, 2007 with Kenya (my son), BruceT, BruceF from Reno, Don and Shelly from Napa and Suisan...
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Trinity (Pigeon Point, III)
This is my favorite run for family paddling. My family ran it before in 2004 and my son and I did in this summer of 2007. My paddling friend, AlanG has organized his family trip in Labor Day weekend...
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Lower Stanislaus (III~V-)
I ran Goodwin Dam run in mid Sep 2007. I liked this run. It's short, but very seanic run and there are good class III and IV rapids plus three class V rapids. Please see more details.. However, I did...
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Lovers Leap of SF American (V)
I ran this run with HillH and KurtS on June 1st of 2008. There are very few information about this run except for "Best whiterwater in CA" (by Holbek and Stanley). H&S book says that this is 9.6...
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My Son's Debut in HARDSHELL Kayaking!!!
My son, Kenya, has started his hardshell kayaking. He used single IK for ~2 years (16 days in class II or III runs) since he was 9 years old. This year, he switched his boat to hardshell boat (Dagger,...
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Kenya's paddling in the Gorge run (III-III+)
For my son Kenya who hurdled Eskimo roll, the next challenge was class III run. For us, it was the Gorge run of SF American river (III~III+, ~9 miles). Some more detail informations are available at...
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NF American Shirttail (II~II+) with my son
Me: "Kenya, when will you start paddling this year?"Kenya: "Uuum, end of April" Me: "Whey you start so late? Why not March?" K: "I don't like cold air, cold water." Me:"......" These were our...
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Upper Tuolumne (Cherry Creek: V) part 2
Since my first run at Cherry creek in 2007, I have run it for ten times by the end of the season in 2009. In the beginning of my first 4 times' run, it was scary run and I felt nervous a lot. However,...
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Trinity (Pigeon Point, III) with my son
Trinity trip in Labor Day weekend is an annual event of Guttenburgs. I have joined them before with my family (2007), but only my son and I joined their trip in 2009. Alan's three sons live in southern...
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Yuba SF (Kingvale to Eagle Lakes Rd, IV-V)
I ran SF Yuba from Kingvale exit of Hwy80 to Eagle Lakes Rd exit in mid May, 2009. The flow was 750 cfs. This run goes mostly along with Hwy80 except for Rainbow. The upper part of what we ran is...
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Yuba SF (Edwards to Purdon, IV) with my son
My son started kayaking with IK in 2006 when he was 9 years old and had used IK for 16 paddling days, then switched to a hardshell kayak (Dagger Dynamo) in 2008 and have used it for 22 paddling days....
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Yuba SF (49 bridge to Bridgeport, V-)_updated
49 to Bridge port is my favorite run. It is not so far from Davis (2 hours), has countless number of exciting classIV ~ classIV+ rapids and boofs in only 7.2 miles and great sceanic views. However,...
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Pauley Creek (IV+)_updated
Lower Pauley creek is one of my favorite run. The difficulty is class IV below 250 cfs and gets more difficult but slightly at higher flow of ~300 cfs. Even at not high flow, this fantastic creek...
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Stanislaus NF (BoardXing to Mckay's Pt, IV-V)
Stanislaus NF (Board crossing to Mckays point) is very beautiful run, which has 5 mile class IV section from Board crossing bridge put-in to Calaveras Big Trees State Park and 2.5 mile class IV+ with...
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American SF (Kyburz, IV+)_updated
This is my favorite run, although there are not a few people who don't like this run. For this run, shuttle is easy, driving on only hwy 50 for 10 min for 8 miles. The putin is a turnout that is west...
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