THE RAIN HAS COME!!!!

Salmon Creek Falls "takeout"

Ben running the right side

Fall Creek non action shot :(

We organized a trip friday because the it had been raining all week and the clubs nemisis Fall Creek was supposed to be running. When we got to the creek it was running but maybe not at the best of flows. We being Me, Rob, Ben and Brendan bashed and pitoned our way down the creek to reveal several very good drops and lots of flatwater. For me Ben and Brennan this was just not enough so we took off to Salmon Creek to run the falls. We put on at dusk and took off at dark we each got one or two runs in. Salmon creek was at around 270 cfs which made the left side of the falls kinda beefy. Ben and Brendan almost got worked over there.
Paxton

A New Year

The whitewater club will be continuing this year, thanks to ben maren our new advisor. We would like to give him a warm welcome to the club and are looking forward to an exciting year! We will also be taking in new members soon and are looking forward to helping them to get into the wonderful sport of kayaking.

Over the summer some of the members of the club went to the Ottawa River with a program called keeners. The Ottawa was a great experience and the club members got to surf one of the worlds legendary waves, mini bus, they also paddled some of the amazing whitewater on the Gatineau river.

Brice Creek

This past weekend Tom rounded up volunteers Ben and Josh to come run Brice Creek with Ben(younger)and myself. The flows were great and we put in just below Hop,Skip Splat on Upper Brice, limboed under a log, and were on our way. The first part was fairly uneventful boulder garden fun with a fun drop at the end, right before the bridge. After the bridge Lower Brice Starts and the river takes on a more pool drop nature. As this was my first time down, we stopped and scouted most of the major rapids before we ran them, setting safety after each one. All in all it was a fairly uneventful day ending with a Laura's Thighs run fest, where everyone ran Laura's at least once and a couple of us running it twice. It was around seventy degrees when we took out, making it a rare day on Brice Creek indeed.



Ben(older) dropping Pogo



Tom coming off of Cheese-grater



Ben at the base of Laura's

Hometown Throwdown Fun

The first Hometown Throwdown was this past Thursday and was super fun. About twenty people with about fifteen boaters overall came to compete and watch three different kayaking comptetitions at echo hollow pool. There was the "flatwater rodeo", " the rolling competition" and the " Big Trick" contest. The flatwater rodeo was basically a competition to see who could throw the most ends in thirty seconds, but Sam Humphrey mixed it up with a flatwater loop and there were lots of style points given liberally to each competitor who did something goofy. After this there was a short break where some shwag was given out and the winners were announced( i got second, sam humphrey got first, and i dont remember who got third-sorry). Then came the rolling competition with points given for quantity, quality and style of roll. Lots of people through down a bunch of great rolls again, some good shwag was given away. Finally, the big trick competition was held and people went out there and threw their best. Sam did another loop and Ed Fredette did a fancy paddle-twirl to swim and my brother and I did sort of group roll, which ended up winning. All in all it was a fun night with a pair of Mion shoes and some sweet Smith shades being given away at the end.
Rob

The Coast

Last Sunday the club went to the south jetty on the Oregon coast. the surf was pretty good and Quinn manage some great tricks on the waves. the other members of the club were also ripping it up. the weather was not great but the enthusiastic atmosphere made up for it and overall it was a great day. this last Friday members of the club also attended the banff mountain film festival and said the the films were great.

Kayak Film Double Feature

Next Wednesday (the 27th) the Whitewater Club will be attending and holding a bake sale at the Kayak Film Double Feature here at the U of O. The two films showing are Night of the Living Donkey and The Green Race Movie. It starts at 7 and is in 180 PLC. Hopefully I will have the poster for the event up soon

Neil's session

Quinn helix on Neil's at 2.8 feet


Hey,
I ran across some photos of us at neil's wave on the McKenzie from last november, thought I'd post them. All photos are courtesy of EJ Etherington, a cool guy and great boater from around corvallis who we keep running into on the water. You can check out his blog at thisriverlife.blogspot.com if you'd like, and check out the photos here: Neil's Pics
The paddlers are: Rob in the orange specialist, Ben in the shooting star, Quinn in the yellow project 52, althea in the 45 with a pink helmet, Solly in the yellow fun, and James in the red all star, who is another great boater out of corvallis.

Peace,
Quinn