Trips MAY 1 - MAY 9

Looks like some of the local rivers are up and paddable. The Castle is at 32cms, Belly is too low, Middle Fork is getting High (9000cfs), Swiftcurrent is 335cfs (500cfs is a good flow), and the accessible East Kootenays runs seem to be flowing well.

Post your trips here.

Early Season Road Trips

If you are wanting to get in shape for the short season that is likely to happen, consider taking a 4 day weekend to one of these areas

- Missoula. The lochsa river is truly amazing, and there are lots of natural hotsprings. Expect about 9h one way. Solid class III to IV.




-Silverton - The St. Joes river is pretty nice, and the towns around the area are super cool. See american whitewater for details. Expect about 3-4h past Koocanusa (9h). Easy creek style class III to IV. Much less intimidating than the power of the lochsa.

Paddling has Begun

a few people are making trips out to the KAN this Easter weekend. Also there has been some trips on the weekends to the ELK river. we are doing the distance, but its well worth it! leave your comments if you are taking any trips this pre-season time!!!

Pool kayaking sessions are on in Lethbridge at the UofL Thursdays from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. The club boats are there for anyone to use. Last week there was about 9 people present.

Waterton Creeks

With this recent rain it looks like the Waterton creeks may be runable. Blackiston is low but probably doable (at least today and tomorrow). Cameron is low and probably doable as well. I would suggest putting in at something nasty to avoid the low water grinds above. Boundary should also be able to be run.

Chris
cgoble72 at gmail

Trips July 20-30, 2009

Post your trips for the next week and a bit...

Trips July 7 - July 19

Post your trips... your hopeful trips... your dream trips ... Just let us know who wants to get out on the river and lets make plans!!!

Trips June 29th - July 5th

Gear Rentals

Its taken a while and I'm sorry for that. I have all the ORCKA gear if anyone is wanting to get out paddling and nothing to paddle. I'm going to try and do rental pick-up/drop-off on Monday and Thursday from 6-8pm. You'll need to call first, as I won't be there if I'm not expecting anyone.
You can call me at 403-894-0740 or email tyronesiphone@gmail.com

Trips June 22 - June 28

had a beautiful weekend of paddling and heard of some great paddles that people went on during the week! so hopefully this week will also be a wonderful week, so lets get some plans made!!!

Trips June 15 - June 21

Flows have been unusual this year, but if anyone is going out on the river let us know... Have fun on the rivers!

Gear for Sale

In a year of building a house and taking on some other projects, having two kayaks seems a little redundant. I am selling my green Jackson Fun ($800 obo), a bent shaft Lendal paddle that has never been used/only assembled ($250 obo), and other miscellaneous gear... I'll list the other misc. stuff in the comments when I figure out what needs to go. Please feel free to use this post as a GEAR SWAP for stuff that you would like to sell/trade as well. Call me at 403-448-0311. Cheers.