Summer kayaking Wrapup

The best summer I have ever had has come to an end so here is a small update and some video of how we rounded off this summer.

After my second to last trip on Sunday we (Kelly and I) packed up the car with all of our gear and waited for Nick to finish his trip on Monday. After a quick bite of food at Chavos we got on the road to White Salmon. At some point we lost track of where we were and ended up taking a 100 mile scenic route detour that ended with us all sleeping under the stars at a rest stop around 20 miles outside of Hood River.
The next morning we woke up bright and early and made our way into Hood River to grab some breakfast in town before crossing the Columbia and making our way up to the BZ Corners put in on the White Salmon. We were all pretty tired after the drive and a not so sleepy night but still excited to get on the river. After getting the gear on we made our way down to the river and had a great lap on one of the most classic rivers in the world. We did two laps before calling it quits and trying to find a campsite.

We decided to just try different dirt roads that exited right side of the main road once we had entered Mt.Hood national forest and ended up finding a great place in between a few pay campground that all had Robin Hood themed names. I think we passed Nottingham  and Sherwood campground before finding our turnoff that dipped into the woods.

We got another full day of kayaking in before accepting that nothing else was running and packing up the shit and heading to Seattle to crash at my aunt and uncles before heading to the Skykomish river which was running at a low level but still a runnable level.

After a night on Mercer Island at my aunt and uncle we headed to the Skykomish river where we ran boulder drop once and continued on our way over Hwy 2. Around 20 miles after Stevens pass the road became so smokey we could barely seen the next car in front of us. After 20 miles of dense smoke it finally cleared and we scouted Tumwater canyon for the remainder of the trip. After scouting Tumwater I knew I wanted to run it but knew the smoke wouldn't let us do it that day.

We rolled into Wenatchee soon after scouting Tumwater and Kelly's dad immediately asked if we wanted to get out on Tumwater the next day. We all had commercial trips so we decided to get out on the river on Sunday before I continued on to pick up my parents at the airport. It all turned out perfect and Sunday was some of the best kayaking I've done in the last couple weeks.

Here's a little edit I put together of the year our here raft guiding...it's been as good as I could have imagined!