Welcome to my home page. I'm a dedicated freestyle whitewater kayaker. You may not be familiar with this style of kayaking, but if you can imagine a combination of wakeboarding, surfing, and kayaking you are pretty close to freestyle whitewater kayaking. As forgiving as a sport can be, kayakers roll over and do it again. No crashes, just splashes. Enjoy! Dave |
A Few of My Adventures:You will need quicktime to view the videos. Right click and select save target as to save it to your hard disk to view later.Here is a little tribute to Monastery Falls on the Red River Near Gresham WI. Gresham is half way between Green Bay and Wausau on Hwy. 29. I've spent more time at this rapid then any other.
Terminal Surfer is a hole that's known as a "keeper." I'ts also one of the most fun wave holes around. Trashy enough to not give anything away, shallow enough to break boats, but most anything is possible. Midwestern Whitewater at its best. This is at about 1900 CFS. The First drop into The Gorge on the Menomenee River. Terminal Surfer is about a mile downstream. Click the image above for a higher quality version!
Spring '04 Big Water in the Midwest May 1st '04 Presque Isle and Black U.P. Michigan Ottawa River - August 2005 Alex Hanzlik-Green and I had an awesome trip with the best water levels I've ever seen on the Ottawa! Alex got some of his first flat spins, and I just had an amazingly good time! All smiles on this one. Above is a panerama of "the lorne" Some footage in the above video was taken from the opposite shore. Click the image for a high quality version! Red River - October 2005 The red river is deffinatly my home in the wilderness. Last time I tryed to go check out the monastery, I got chased off by bull teriers. This time things went better, but its not me shooting the footage, those dogs scared me enough to keep me in my boat! Paint River in the UP of Michigan is one of the most beautiful rivers anywhere! Late in the year, the paint is a totally awesome river. It is running about 550 cfs in this video. The day before we paddled it at about 600!
Mt. Bohemia, Haunted Valley. Badseed to cattrack to wooded traverse, to prospector Winter break extravagance at its best. Snowboarding in dense trees yay! Spring Break '06! Root River - Racine WI - and more Mt. Bohemia Fun
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