Wenatchee at last: July 21/22

Its been a cold spring and June was not very pleasant either. But finally the Wenatchee has come down to my personal favorite (between 7000 and 4500 cfs) and we made the trip down south. That's the latest time in the year we ever paddled the river in our 15+ years of kayaking.

Down there we met up with a bunch of VKCers and the usual Seattle folks. Good surfing, spinning, and I even caught many of the 'on the fly' waves I usually don't have such a high success rate with. A great weekend... need to paddle more often...

Oh and I almost forgot... thanks to the unseasonably late drop in river levels we were treated to Saskatoon Berries, sweeter and riper than I ever tasted before. Yeah to the Wenatchee!

Pemby (Personal) Record Weekend: July 7/8

What a great weekend! Flew my two longest distance flights. When I got out to Copper Mound on Saturday, Pete was on his run back from across the Hurley Road and he turned around to join me for a thermaling session over Goat Mt. I had never been that far up the Pemberton Valley.

On Sunday I went even further (70 km) with my first flight across the Hurley Pass Road. Very cool to see the road far below winding its way up to the pass, glide across it with Miguel and Mags, soar the snow fields under Locomotive Mt (which we scrambled up a few years ago) and finally find a thermal that took me high enough for the glide back to where I knew to find lift on Goat Mt. Made it all the way back to the LZ in Pemberton to close the out-and-return flight.

Log of the 70 km flight here.

Miguel's picture of me on my Artik2 somewhere over the Coastmountains