One is attached, the others are on the yahoo site. From the pic, I'd say the third drop, what we'll now call the Baptismal Plunge, is 5' at this level....
Gray's Lake is still closed after the flooding, so there won't be a practice/rec paddling session tonight. ... Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new...
RapidsRiders is putting on a advanced beginner kayak class this weekend. I am considering going. They have not nailed down which river it will be on, but...
This isn't white water specific, but I know some of you paddle touring boats also. At Hawkeye Wildlife Management Area just outside of North Liberty, we had...
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Paddlers,CanoeSport Outfitters will be holding the Grays Lake demo this week at Lake Ahquabi State Park. We have had comments from numerous people stating...
Here's a good article on safety by Karl DeLong of Grinnell. It crosses into a wide variety of trip types, including whitewater but also sea kayaking and...
Reece, Ty, and I went took a quick trip up to WI last week. Since Gilmore's is supposed to be the best drop of section 3 and right at the end, we played there....
World champion and Olympian Davey Hearn is coaching at the Ray McLain Training Camp at Wausau June 22 – 27. He will coach K1, C1 and OC1 You have three...
Our practice session schedule gets back to normal next week. Water levels are finally coming back down to earth on the Raccoon. Beware that a lot of...
Paddle the Lizard Day Plans To raise awareness, Iowa Whitewater Coalition is sponsoring “Paddle the Lizard Day” in conjunction with the Iowa Department of...
We have switched to Tuesdays now. We will be on the water at 4:30 pm. Although, if anyone wants to meet on Monday, I will be in the area for the next two...
Paddling friends, The skies were overly generous with their rainfalls yesterday, and Lizard Creek is up to a verifiably dangerous level. There's little chance...
I'm waiting for the Pallisades to drop below 9500 and get me some rides on that wave. Looks like the only close ww venues are: Little Vermillion in Hastings,...
Hi Steve! I imagine Rolls Rapids (the hole at Fort Dodge) will become pretty good for a week once the water goes down too - kinda hard to explain to our...
If you are already in Indiana and want some big water to play on, the Falls of the Ohio is the place to be. It is a park just off the highway on the Indiana...
For those near Decorah, that crumbled lowhead damn on the Upper Iowa at Kendalville was *great* fun last weekend. Likely not worth a drive just for that spot,...
I'll add that on our North Fork Maquoketa trip two weeks ago for Central Iowa Paddlers, just upstream of the Highway 136 bridge nortwest of Cascade, there's a...
At least 4 of us will be at Commerce Ledges tonight. First order of business is a little trail maintenance and poison ivy mitigation. Then we play. Oddly, it...
Nick & others, The disclaimer is that it's not steepcreeking, it's Iowa creekin' which works out to being somewhat like paddling regular class II-III WW...
The next board meeting of the Iowa Whitewater Coalition is 6 p.m., July 15, at Raccoon River Park, 2500 Grand Ave., West Des Moines. (Take the Grand Avenue...
IWC's new newsletter, Newsplash, is completed and will be in the mail soon. For many people on this list, we do not have snail mail addresses. If you want the...
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/photos/?photoid=7704 the above link is a pic of ledge 3, Briggs Falls, heretofor to be known as the "Baptismal Plunge", taken...
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/photos/?photoid=7706 Creeker, play boat, don't matter, Baptismal Plunge will swallow you. And it's fun. Run it over and over...
Steve, if you go sunday or monday, let me know. I'd like to paddle, but am busy with biking stuff saturday. ws ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff> ... ...
I definately can't go Sun. Monday I can after a 9 a.m. Dr's appt....if it looks like it will have enuf flow. sw Whitney Sanford <wsanford@...> wrote: ...