Monthly Archives: December 2008

Lacamas Creek

By dave | Published: December 30, 2008
Sunday, December 28th, Josh Armagost, Check Taylor, Nate and Heather Herbeck, Ryan Scott and myself met up to check out Lacamas Creek. Yay for park and hucks! Heather on one of the upper drops Chuck scouts the wood, then runs the main drop Sequence shot of me on the main drop And of course, we hiked back up [...]
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Upper Tualatin: Not Really Recommended

By dave | Published: December 29, 2008
Saturday was going to be a good day. Christie Glissmeyer, Jesse Becker and Jason Schroeder were coming to PDX from Hood River to get some goods. With warm temperatures melting the snow and rain falling we expected the Coast Range to have good flows. They were just too good- our original destination, the Grays River [...]
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Rich Hardy on Sunset Falls on the EF Lewis

By dave | Published: December 19, 2008
Rich grew up, and learned to kayak, with my roommate Mike Gottlieb. He came out for his first adventure trip to the West Coast this May and had a blast. We hit some of the ultra-classic Portland-area creeks – Canyon Creek, Opal Creek and Rock Creek. Rich and Mike also took a trip out to [...]
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Freewheel at Little Brother

By dave | Published: December 17, 2008
Here is a quick little video of me freewheeling Little Brother on the Green Truss section of the White Salmon. The Truss is our summertime/low water reliable class V run in the Columbia Gorge, just across the Columbia from Hood River. Freewheel at Little Brother from Dave Hoffman on Vimeo. The video was shot by Adam Mills [...]
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Upper Naranjo: El Chorro

By dave | Published: December 15, 2008
Last December and January I was fortunate to spend time in Costa Rica working in Quepos. The best run, just 30 minutes out of town, was the Upper Naranjo, know as the Chorro or Throat. The Chorro is a short, fun IV- easy V run that we all loved atAventuras H20. A unique aspect of [...]
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My Favorite Canyon Creek Photos

By dave | Published: December 15, 2008
Josh Armagost on Thrasher Mike Northrop on Kahuna
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Summer Paddling 2008

By dave | Published: December 13, 2008
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