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Product testing in Chelan Gorge

  A sweet little edit from the boys over at Boogie Water Productions. Testing the limits of what a sprayskirt can withstand. Marco Collela, Alex Podolak, and Brett Barton go deep into the recesses of one of Chelan Gorge’s gnarlier drops, Meat Locker. Gorge...
A Warrior’s Path

A Warrior’s Path

  We are all challenged by our own lives…    …face things which tear us down to our core and reveal things we truly fear. Being dismantled is as much a part of natural life as finding contentment in a field of grass and radiant warmth. I...

Summertime

  Recently, Creek Siders paddled one of the prettiest rivers around, the Ohanepecosh. The Ohane is a summertime classic I try and hit every year. Uber clean water flows out of Mt Rainier Nat’l Park and down through the Ohane gorges. So clean and tasty, I...

Tshletshy Creek: 2012

  Creek Sides has been layin’ low in prepatory style to bring you the goods. Our mission as of late has been exploring the Olympic Peninsula. We’ve ventured to other parts of the state, too, but really we need look no farther than, literally…...

Ain’t No “Can’t” In The Word Canyon

Throughout the years I’ve had many great runs down a lot of different rivers here in Washington. I’ve fantasized about what some of the more obscure runs would be like as I’ve scanned the hundreds of pages of whitewater lore in the WA river bible....

Into The Great Wide Open

How many miles of this would YOU drag a kayak through to get to “the best whitewater” in WA?Creek Sides gets ‘er done so you don’t have to!!No shortage of adventure in there.how longgg…How many miles? How much adventure? How many bears...

EF Lewis and the Robe Race

The East Fork of the Lewis is a lovely bit of whitewater that PDX’ers hit up after work in the spring. And after the big logjam on Canyon Creek, the Northwest Creekin’ Comp got moved over to the EF. As we all know, rivers have the tendency to create...

EF Lewis and the Robe Race

The East Fork of the Lewis is a lovely bit of whitewater that PDX’ers hit up after work in the spring. And after the big logjam on Canyon Creek, the Northwest Creekin’ Comp got moved over to the EF. As we all know, rivers have the tendency to create...

Winter Update: Numba Too

  This has been an epic winter paddling season for us here in Western WA. Plenty of stoke to go around. Dig in. town wall The best journeys bring up questions we never thought to ask – Yvonne Chanaurd dealin’ Totten tappin’ into some high speed...

Winter Update!

The rains have come and so has the cold, snow and general nippiness you get living in the mountains. Haven’t been skiing in the last 2 years because boating (and recovering from boating) keeps the lot of my time. 4 PFD’s (personal first descent) this year...
The beast with 40 eyes…

The beast with 40 eyes…

Looking into the mountains where we shall find… the Beasts’ lair (not to mention bears and cougars) Small, infant Gorge Beasts are grown in these mountains. I had always wondered where the elusive Gorge Beast came from. I’ve heard the stories....