This past weekend, we set out to answer a question we hear more often than you’d think: “Wait, Wisconsin has whitewater?” Spoiler alert: We absolutely do! We took on three of the state’s most iconic paddling rivers—Peshtigo, Pike, and Wolf—and captured some of the action on video. First up, we […]
Category: kayaking
Mainland-Based Apostle Islands Visit
NEWP’s (Northeast Wisconsin Paddlers) inaugural Bayfield Gathering at the Apostle Islands. August 2024. Our club has paddled the Apostle Islands for many years. This year we also held a mainland-based event, camping at Little Sand Bay and paddling day trips to various locations. Here’s my video.
Team River Runner at Wausau 2024
Team River Runner’s annual weekend at Wausau Whitewater Park, July 20 & 21, 2024. Thanks to the many volunteers and donors who make it possible to serve our veterans and their families! For more information see TeamRiverRunner.org.
TRR and Apostle Islands 2024
Held July 23-28, 2024, this was our seventh annual TRR Apostle Islands sea kayak clinic. Ten veterans and 4 civilian volunteers participated this year, including a blind veteran and a paraplegic. Participants hailed from eight states: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, California, Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina and Maryland. We arranged with the […]
Fun with A.I. video
PowerDirector recently added an AI (artificial intelligence) feature that converts video to various styles of animation. I’ve been having fun with it on a few of my clips. The videos are interesting and a little weird, especially when you examine them frame by frame. For example, things appear to be […]
Payette River with Team River Runner
After Team River Runner’s recent multi-day trip on the Main Salmon River, some of us took advantage of a bonus day on the Payette. Big thanks to TRR’s Boise chapter coordinator Bob Tracy and his fellow Boise, Idaho volunteers for hosting us that day. Here are descriptions of this section […]
Salmon River with Team River Runner
A fantastic week on the Main Salmon pursuing the Team River Runner mission: To provide all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, community purpose, and new challenges through adventure and adaptive paddle sports. August 2023. Here’s my video…
Ocoee River with Team River Runner
Cohen R. and I recently drove to North Carolina for our first visit to the annual #TeamRiverRunner SE Rendezvous. We were treated to good food, new friendships and two days kayaking the Nantahala River followed by a day on big water of the Ocoee. It was a tremendous event with […]
Busy Kayaking Season
It’s been a busy spring and summer of kayak instruction; both whitewater and sea kayaking. And the busiest part of the season is still to come. I haven’t posted lately so I’ll play catch-up now about some of the events to date… SCOUT LEADER KAYAK TRAINING, June 5-8 I’ll start […]
Red River Dunks
My first paddle day in the Midwest this season after kayaking in the Southeast US earlier this year. Apparently I’m still shaking off some winter rust. And yes that should be “CFS” for Cubic Feet per Second, not “CFI”. I shot the drone footage right before we launched our kayaks.