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It's been an exciting past couple of weeks. The greys peaked at around the 5ft mark, and it was awsesome...like a little piece of the north fork just down the street. The Gros Ventre got big too, about 4ft at the bridge. The canyon toped out at around 24,000. Between those three, kings wave, and lunch counter, the summer has gotten kicked off in the appropriate fashion. We've been throwing big tricks at the counter for the last week and a half. Surf Wyoming!

I spent a week out east picking up a new vehicle...It was really good to see some of my friends I haven't seen in a minute...A minute being about 5 years..You guys should come check out the other half of the country!

I had an epic adventure down Bitch Creek a few weeks ago and I learned a valuable lesson regarding rivers.. Everything was going good, the Bitch was about as big as it gets, I was with a solid crew, had my trusty creekboat and an adventurous attitude...Well let me tell you where all that gets you these day...Stuffed under a log, with the boat being pushed under. I was able to cling to the top of the log, wiggle out of my boat just in time to see it get sucked under the log and down the creek. I was left with a bruised ego and a long walk ahead. I climbed up a verticle rock wall, through the rattlesnake dens, across the endless potatoe fields and over this super sketchy bridge to the car..I made it, no injurys, no problems except for the fact my creekboat was now submarining itself down this relativly remote creek.

So I'm at work last week. I get a phone call...They found my creekboat!!! It's good to go minus a little thigh foam on the inside. I went and picked it up...a few more scratches, and a little dent, but that is about it...it's still a creekboat.

The lesson to be learned...when on a new river, especially at high flow, maybe it is not the best idea to charge full speed ahead downstream. Rather, you should take your time, enjoy the river, and do not be afraid to scout.

A big thanks to Dan A for towing my boat the 10 miles out of the forest for me.

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It's all going...and it's all going HUGE!

(Speed Blur on the Greys...Back when you could see the wood and rocks)

It's here, it's here. After a long cold winter, and an even longer rainy cold spring, the earth is finnally begining to warm up, the snow is finnally melting and that water is finnally making it's long journey towards the sea. Thats right, Spring Runoff is here and if your a kayaker...you should be kayaking right now not reading this. If you're not a kayaker I guess you could keep reading...

So this past weekend Rendezevous hosted thier annual Wyoming Whitewater Championships. Friday was a race down the Hoback, Saturday was the rodeo and Sunday was the BoaterX down the Greys. The race on friday had a little bit of raft carnage due to an under estimated log strainer in the middle of the river. 2 poped boats, acouple scratches, but no real injurys. Saturday was super fun, the river shot up over night, and we had an off the couch rodeo at Kings wave. A good turnout of spectators and competitors and we all got to go flop around for a few hours on one of the Snake rivers best play features. Sunday was the race down the greys. I had to work, so I can't say much about it, but we ran it Saturday evening before the party and it was damn near 5ft on the gauge at the takeout. It was the biggest I have seen it yet by far...!!I would imagine there was a bit of carnage.

The dam on the Snake is no longer holding any water back...It's all going to go, and it's going to go big. It's like 18000cfs right now and rising. The rain is still falling, and the mountains are socked in...It's monday, I'm on vacation. Headed to the river! You should too.