Tuesday nights, ever since the time change when we got more daylight back in the evenings, have become kayak practice nights with the boys. We just head to the Deschutes here in Olympia, Washington between Pioneer Park and the Valley Golf Course. It is little more than moving water. The

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller When I originally wrote this, our boys were four and six. Now they

Almost four years ago now, I got the opportunity to run the Little White Salmon for the first time. Over a decade ago, I recall seeing the first ever full color centerfold in American Whitewater, and although I had spent arguably all of my life paddling, I could not recognize