Last weekend was the annual Western Michigan Coastal Kayakers Association symposium. It runs from Thursday evening through noon Sunday and is pretty much two full days of various classes, events, talks and socializing with other semi-local kayakers. Since Doug and I started kayaking in ’05 it has kind of marked… Continue reading
The weekend of June 10th and 11th, Jeff, Oren and I loaded into Oren’s Range Rover and headed down to Slippery Rock PA for some white water action. We were joined there by Todd, Linda, Kathleen and Denis. The weather upon arrival was a heavy rain, which was a joy… Continue reading
The last two weekends I, among others, ventured across the state to run the mighty Huron river in Ann Arbor. It was good fun with good people and good students. Beyond that, this post is likely interesting to very few people. Last weekend Todd, Linda, Dennis, Kathleen, Doug, Josh, Jeff… Continue reading
The past two weekends have seen two runs on the mighty Huron river. The following is probably only interesting to a few people who likely don’t read this, so it will serve mainly as a future reference for myself. Last weekend the Huron was running at about 550 cfs. On… Continue reading
So, what’s new with Matt: Kayaking – the last two weekends have been committed to kayaking. Two weekends ago I went to up Cheboygan for an Instructor Certification Evaluation with the same group of folks who sponsored the IDW I mentioned a month or so ago. Half the expected participants… Continue reading
So, last weekend including Friday I went to Muskegon to take part in an IDW sponsored by the Lansing Area White Water Paddlers – the kayaking group I roll with here in EL. IDW stands for Instructor Development Workshop, which serves as training for instructor candidates or a refresher for… Continue reading
Alright… since Emily wanted me to post, but not about kayaking… she’s going to be disappointed. I went for my second run down the Huron river today in my elf shoe of a boat. The first was last Saturday with the UofM kayak club. On that trip I dumped once… Continue reading
It is my thought that the woman who owns this car is hot, although likely too old for me. For anyone who doesn’t recognize either… it’s a Toyota Prius (’04 Gen 2) with a Wilderness Systems Tsunami 145 on top.
Last night witnessed the advent of the MJN off side hands roll. I am the shit. It was shortly afterward brought up to me that ‘off side’ refers to the paddle feather. I don’t feather my paddle, thus I don’t have an off side, and when hand rolling there is… Continue reading
Kayaking was tonight. I hand rolled somewhere around 5 or 6 times. The first one was on my own. I had my lifejacket on for a little extra floatation and it was ugly, but it worked and at least someone – not sure who – saw it. Later, I tried… Continue reading