A week at the Beaver Lodge

After a month of sleeping in beds, showering and living a generally standard life it was finally time to pack my shit up and make my push toward 9 months in British Columbia – not without spending some time in Hood River first though.

Highlights from the week include crashing a raft guide wedding party and walking away with 14 foot long sandwiches, 5 pounds of 4 bean salad, a 10 pound cheese platter and a case of wine – the gypsies strike again!

We also swam over punch bowl falls, I swam on the little white, ran the truss a bunch and chilled a bit on the lower white salmon as well…all in all it was a damn fine week but it didn’t prepare me well for the next mission coming up…

SHIT!!!....Someone hit the big red button...A-bomb testing in the Willamette Valley (or just a grass fire).

Punch Bowl Falls


As you slid down you got engulfed by the folding water at the lip and your view instantly went underwater, then just as quickly you fell inside the curtain of water off the lip of the falls, if anything could come close to feeling like a trapdoor had just opened under you it would be this - 25feet of falling in a white out - the landing was soft though and multiple laps were done by all. I highly reccomend this to anyone in Oregon - it was the shit. Have a close look at the picture you can see someone halfway down falling in the curtain.

HoodRiver...beautiful weather, beautiful views and some world class kiting, not to mention two world class rivers.

Some days you feel blue, some days you feel brown. EG on a brown day on the Green Truss