Expression Session Jalama Beach, CA December 20 Jalama Beach is about an hour from Santa Barbara. A long winding road through stunning rolling hill scenery leads a person to a gorgeous strech of california coast, with a nice little campground nestled into a cove amoung
Kim and Geoff had our honeymoon in the UK, visiting sites and family. It was wonderful. [nggallery id=”1632″ nggid=”96″]
Photos from a run down the incredible Kyburz stretch of the South fork American. [nggallery id=”1578″ nggid=”42″]
Pictures from the North Fork Stanislaus River. [nggallery id=”1579″ nggid=”43″]
Pictures from my 1st run down the incredible South Silver Creek. Thanks to Kim for the photos. 700 feet per mile! Holy cow. [nggallery id=”1577″ nggid=”41″]
We were blessed and honored with the attendance of many friends and family, from all over the world, at our wedding. This album has many photos of them. [nggallery id=”1638″ nggid=”102″]
On Saturday, Kim’s Mom and Grandma threw us a really nice engagement party, in a traditional Chinese style. With mostly Kim’s extended family attending, my friends and I showed up, in pouring rain, bearing trays of foods and gifts. After the door was opened, Kim’s
This time of year can be a little tough for boaters. All the spring and summer run off is mostly gone, and the winter storms haven’t shown up yet. Rivers are low and we start looking hard. I’d not heard much about Clear Creek, near
SF of Silver Creek is most well known for it’s more difficult upper reaches, but below Icehouse resevoir, there is a gorgeous, fun dramatic Class IV. With an average gradient of 70 feet per mile, several class IV rapids and literally miles of continuos Class
Hilde was putting together a Grand Canyon trip. She guides for Outdoors Unlimited, and the trip would be a commercial trip run by them, but she was putting together a trip of mostly Northern California boaters, sort of a special trip. Kayaking the Grand Canyon
The Cherry Creek run on the Toulumne has a well deserved reputation for being difficult. It is the hardest run in CA that is run by by commercial raft companies. Landon Lipke, manager of River Store in Lotus, CA, calls it the Class V proving
Last July, Kim and I paddled a two person kayak down the Gorge, a class III run on the South Fork American – I just got a copy of some photos. There are some pretty good ones, it’s worth clicking all the way through. [nggallery
We’d planned on running South Silver Creek, not the famous section, but a lesser known section below Icehouse Resevoir. Unfortunately upon arrival, we noticed a distinct lack of water. Thinking quickly, we decided to salvage our day and run something on the nearby South Fork
I’ve been wanting to get on Giant Gap for awhile, although I admit I was a bit intimidated by it’s reputation. but I’ve been paddlign tons, and feeling pretty solid in the kayak. This weekend flows were getting into a decent range, on the high
My friend Albert and I had decided to go boating. Many of the rivers in Ca are off the charts with high water right now, but Albert suggestion the Middle fork of the Yuba. The MF of the Yuba is sadly choked with dams and
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,
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
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,
Christmas at my parents house is always fun, and I was excited to have Kim join us this year, she wrote a really fun story with her some of her impressions, I’ve posted it below. We had a great time, and it was over far
Last weekend I once again had the great pleasure of spending a fantastic few days on the river with a great bunch of folks. Kristi, Carlos, Ryo, Ting, Beckett, Kim and I got together for a few days of paddling on the South Fork American
A work day for me. Took the Patagonia customer service folks rafting on the Truckee River [nggallery id=”1607″ nggid=”71″]