So on the way to Seattle we also stopped off to run the Skykomish in Washington…
James, Skykomish
Me on the Skykomish, Washington
Colm, Skykomish
Steven, Skykomish
Then down to Portland where we hooked up with Alex, Carrie, Chris, Kate and a few others….
Alex, the flume on the Wind River
James, at the top of the flume
As you can see im concentrating… this rapid isn’t one you would get away with flipping in.. Further down stream some nice waterfalls were waiting for us…unfortunately Steven had the main waterfall pictures on his camera which he later lost!!! We still have some pics tho…
James, coming into a drop on the Wind river, Portland
Me, Wind River
Alex, on the first of four drops..
Steven landing his boof
Don’t have pics of us running the four drops but I did get a snap of a group behind us as they came down….
We paddled the Deschutes the following day with the portland crew who were voluntary taking a group who ordinarily wouldn’t get such opportunities on a raft trip.We were all in playboats and surfed all the waves we could find..even James..with one big wave at the end.
Deschutes River
The day after we paddled the White Salmon run below the Green Truss, which (ahem) alex calls a play run but its not the kind of river you want to be upside down on if you ask me…however it did have a play feature at the end(where I saw one paddler swap his creeker for a playboat..!!)….
Il put photos up of that later and the BC stories…got to go for now…
