Tag Archives: whitewater kayaking

Little White Salmon Headcam

By dave | Published: September 8, 2009
El Dub Headcam from Dave Hoffman on Vimeo. The Little White Salmon River is heaven on earth for whitewater kayakers.  It has it all – technical boulder garderns, fun ledge drops, an epic waterfall, the clearest and bluest water I’ve seen and complex never-ending rapids, all set in a beautiful remote gorge that tumbles down to [...]
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Hometown Beatdown

By dave | Published: August 5, 2009
Great Falls Headcam with a swim at the Spout from Dave Hoffman on Vimeo. It’s been a great week on the Potomac River.  I’ve surfed some fun waves with my best friend and our mentor, Bruce Uthus.  I paddled with John Haddock, a good friend who I hadn’t seen since Costa Rica in 2007.  Despite difficult [...]
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Back home to the Potomac

By dave | Published: July 31, 2009
The sirens at gate 20 in JFK’s Terminal 5 are making babies cry.  I couldn’t sleep on the plane.  But I have a smile.  In a few short hours I’ll be home. I was born and raised in suburban Virgina, just outside Washington, DC.  While I was in Peru, my parents sold the house and moved [...]
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Salmon River Gorge – the toughest day of the year

By dave | Published: June 24, 2009
I’m finding it difficult to digest everything that happened yesterday in the Salmon River Gorge. So much physical and mental energy was expended that I cannot think in anything more than bits and pieces.
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Copper Creek Video

By dave | Published: May 21, 2009
Copper Creek from Dave Hoffman on Vimeo. A little while ago I finally paddled Copper Creek.  This particular run had been eluding me for awhile.  Runnable mostly off of rainfall in the winter and early spring, the road leading to the put-in is often rendered impassible by snow.  Mike Gottlieb, Josh Armagost and I found a [...]
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Cali Trip Part. I – My first shoulder injury

By dave | Published: May 1, 2009
As I type this, I’m sitting the Safeway parking lot in Pollock Pines, CA. I just dropped of my buddies at the top of the Golden Gate section of the SF American River. I’m not paddling because I hurt my shoulder, the first shoulder injury of my kayaking career. We charged hard yesterday, my paddling [...]
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Spring Paddling – Yellow Jacket Creek

By dave | Published: April 28, 2009
Yellowjacket Creek was one of the best days last spring.  Set in a beautiful, remote gorge west of Mt. St. Helens, I paddled this river with some of my best friends.  Great people in great places – life couldn’t be sweeter. Tomorrow I am headed to the promised land  – California.  Mike, my roomate and paddling [...]
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Costa Rica Creeking

By dave | Published: January 19, 2009
The cold, harsh winds now blowing in Portland make me long for warmer days. I thought I’d throw up a few shots from last winter, when John Haddock and I had a blast in Costa Rica. Warm water, bright sun, steep creeks and endless jamon y quesos – life couldn’t have been sweeter.
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Mosier Falls – My first paddle strokes of 2009

By dave | Published: January 2, 2009
Photos by Erik Boomer eboomerphoto.com Take boat off the car. Full of water from melted snow, empty it. Grab the water bottle and head back to the falls for one more look. Walk along the road and avoid cars. I’m glad it looks smaller from river left. Talk to Nate to assure myself it’s good to [...]
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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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