Pacific City

I took my Prijon Athlete down to the beach last week. No suprise, but it reinforced my belief that it's not an idea surf kayak! The break at PC goes to soup right away most of the time, so unless I was really into pearling, there wasn't much point in going out. The last day there was a section of the break that stayed glassy for a long time, so I got a few good rides. And - there was no contention. No boards or other boats were anywhere near me.

I did have a nice paddle on Sand Lake.

It was actually really crappy weather, so I might just as well been in a boat. In case you're interested in paddling there, time it for high tide! It was shallow enough in some places anyway. It's hard to imagine how nasty it would be to boat when the tide is out...

Middle Fork #2

We had great weather on this trip - maybe a little hot once in awhile, but really great. A 15 minute rain shower on the 5th day reminded us that weather is not always perfect, but we were ready to cool off anyway. Although the water level was great for the small boats, it was bony enough that the rafts had problems the first couple days. Sulphur Slide, The Chutes and Powerhouse were the repeat offenders, and I think there were a few more problems.

We bank scouted Sulphur Slide, Powerhouse, Lake Creek, Pistol Creek, Tappan Falls, Cove Creek (Tappan 3), Weber and Rubber. Everything else was read and run, although we did some careful boat scouting.

We had a great group for this run. Bob was able to get quite a bit of video, although that was not a priority. The video clip is of me running the first part of The Chutes. When I see clips like this, it always seems like I'm hardly paddling. When I was on the run, it seemed pretty busy.

After three Idaho trips in a month, I was ready for some time off from paddling.