Old Times

November 29, 2009 | Category: Articles, Kayaking, Photography

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Back in the day, Whitewater Wishes was a website dedicated to pictures, videos and trip reports of my river experiences. Well, obviously for those loyal readers, not much has changed, except many of the old pictures and trip reports have been long gone. This morning, when I woke up, I was flipping through some pictures from back in the day. Each picture makes me smile and brings me back to one of the thousand awesome paddling trips that I’ve been on. Here are a few of my favorites!

These two shots were taken by Patrick Rogers at the Raquette. This weekend was awesome- I’ll never forget the feeling I got standing above Colton Falls deciding to run it.

Colton Falls - Raquette River

The Gatineau was a true adventure. I went up there with my parents, not speaking a lick of french and ran into some guys from the UK. None of us had run the river before. We stumbled across the put-in and had an awesome day. It’s safe to say that this is some of the biggest water I’ve seen to this day!

Roto-rooter - Gatineau River

Henry got on odd day off work and we decided to go meet up with Jimbo in upstate NY for a day of creeking and playboating. The problem? My car was in the shop and Henry’s car really isn’t designed for carrying 4 boats. The solution? Put 4 boats on Henry’s car anyway.

The Beemer before an epic day drip to upstate NY (you can tell it was epic by the way we tied the boats up!)

Jimbo, Pete, Kyle and I decided to head north for a few days of quality boating. This turned out to be one of the most epic paddling trips of my lifetime. The next 11 pictures are dedicated to that trip.