New Years In Paradise

Every year for the last 7 years I've been ringing in the New Year on the right foot at Paradise and this year we incorporated camping on Mazama Ridge to our annual snowshoe/skin trip. The last few months I spent designing and building my pulk system to drag along with us. We had a couple of options for …

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White Trashing The San Juan Islands

    Running a small inflatable through the San Juans with deteriorating conditions, multiple days of varying small craft advisories, and conflicting currents is quite interesting to say the least. It's a mesh between running class III whitewater, and running full throttle in the larger dunes of Southern California. You need enough gas, a smooth transition, and figure out …

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Lake Diablo Hiking, Boating, and Car Camping

Growing up, this was one of the yearly wet camping trips we took as a kid. Traditionally spent the weekend fishing and camping in the typical wet Washington blue tarp camping weather. This year as my knee was still on the mend we decided to revisit my childhood and go car camping at Lake Diablo …

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