Articles Archive for Year 2005
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Kim and I had a wonderful weekend in San Francisco. She was up visiting last week, and we were supposed to do a kayak trip on the East Carson. Sadly, due to high water levels, the trip was canceled. We thought for a few minutes, and Kim suggested a trip to San Francisco. I’d almost always rather play in the mountains, but SF is a city that I like. Not sure I’d want to live there, but it’s a cool place to visit.
Another reason to go this weekend, well, her …
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The North Fork of the Stanislaus River might be one of the prettiest, best Class IV+ runs in California, which is saying quite a bit. Incredible scenery, awesome rapids, and a fairly continous nature put this one high in my “best of” list. I had the good fortune of running it at a fun flow level Saturday, with a fun crew of boaters. We converged on Angels Camp, arranged the shuttle and headed to the put in. The shuttle is long, but soon enough we’re on the water.
With little warmup, …
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Webber Creek is a small tributary to the South Fork Of the American River. Parts of it run very near my house, so I was interested in learning what kind of paddling might exist on it. There is very little published information on the run, but Mike Bean had put me in Contact with a fellow named Joe, whose sort of the unnoficial guru for this run, having watched it closely, and done it many, many times.
Turns out there are several runnable sections all dependent on rain to bring up …
