sojournjones.com » Paddling http://sojournjones.com independent journalism: currently, travel blogging & protest photography Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 Paddling the Skykomish at 12,000 CFS http://sojournjones.com/paddling-the-skykomish-at-12000-cfs/ http://sojournjones.com/paddling-the-skykomish-at-12000-cfs/#comments Fri, 05 May 2017 01:06:53 +0000 admin http://sojournjones.com/?p=3649

Paddling the Skykomish River near Index, Washington. May 4, 2017. In Remembrance of Nielsen, we had paddled the same river just the previous Spring.
“WATER IS LIFE, WATER IS LIFE!”

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Photos by Cathy Jones.

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Photo of me, dropping an 18-foot waterfall in my Pyranha Prelude open boat on Paint Creek near Hot Springs, N.C.

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We found the “ducky slam” we intended to paddle over congested with logs, so we headed downstream.

 

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]]> http://sojournjones.com/paddling-nolichucky/feed/ 0 Paddling: Big South Fork & Rockcastle http://sojournjones.com/paddling-big-south-fork-rockcastle/ http://sojournjones.com/paddling-big-south-fork-rockcastle/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:31:29 +0000 admin http://sojournjones.com/?p=2727 Continue reading →]]> Wade, Ray, and Kevin met me in Knoxville, TN, and we caravanned up to Kentucky for some paddling. We’re all open-boaters, meaning we paddle canoes through whitewater rather than kayaks.

We began our weekend with the magnificent Big South Fork:Then we headed up to Rockcastle, which had a bit of a steep hike down to the put-in but was a beautiful paddle:

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