California Poppies going to the World Championships!
Wow, our raft racing team was selected to represent the USA at the Raft Racing World Championships in Bosnia in May. I’ll be raft racing in Slalom, Sprint and Head to Head, and I’ll be kayaking lead to provide safety for the Downriver races. My Team USA Headshot Here’s an article about our team in […]
Back at it – February on the Futaleufu
So happy to finally be back to international kayak travel after 2 years of border closures. Hard not to love the Futaleufu river, especially at the BioBio Expeditions camp. Spent almost a month there with friends, kayaking with some of the best paddlers in the world. Below are photos from our trip. Unlike the boys, […]
West Virginia . . .
I wasn’t that eager to go to Keeners, without being able to cross the border to Canada and actually go to Keeners on the Ottawa. But my parents nudged me to go and signed me up for double sessions. The first session was with Quinn and Sabine and the second session was with Tobin and […]
Sharing High Water Stories
Below is my response to an NRS prompt for high water stories . . . . ___________________________________________________ I love big water. The bigger, the better. But, as I found out in Spring 2019, big water and high water are two different things. Winter 2019 was one of those huge winters where I live in Lake Tahoe, […]
On being grateful for what we have right here at home . . .
Melissa at Cali Collective asked me and the other Junior Ambassadors to think about our pandemic experiences and write about adversity that we have overcome. Below is an edited version of what I sent her last week (as always thanks to my mom for helping edit my posts). It seems appropriate to share on Thanksgiving […]
Go ahead, send your kids to class (kayak class, that is)
These days, it seems that more kids are getting into kayaking. At least it feels that way from how many people have suddenly been reaching out asking if my old boats are available to hand-down! And since kayaking is an inherently socially distant sport, it makes sense. When I was learning to kayak, just a […]
Woohoo, topo duo!
There is some benefit to being stuck at home all summer. Friends are stuck too. And our local river can be as fun and as challenging as we choose to make it. So, after running Chili Bar for the umpteenth time, Tobin and I borrowed the neighbor’s topo duo and ran it tandem. Our moms […]
Can’t believe it’s really done . . .
Wow, I am really done with Middle School. It’s strange to be finished with school all of a sudden. Our socially distanced graduation included zoom speeches and a drive-in. Afterward, we had a few families stop by for champagne in our driveway and some girls stayed for a hammock sleepover in the back yard. Here […]
Interesting Times – Kayaking during a Pandemic
Spring 2020 was supposed to be all about traveling: March in France at a slalom camp, May in Ottawa / Montreal for Canadian Team Trials, early June in Oregon for US Rafting Nationals. And then back to California just in time to graduate from Middle School (8th grade). But, midway through training camp in France, […]
2019: A Kayaking Retrospective
2019 was another amazing year of kayaking. Attending an Independent Study school at the base of Squaw Valley has been an awesome experience, especially for middle school. I spent 6th, 7th and now 8th grade excelling at school, skiing what has seemed like endless powder days, and traveling to kayak. I have loved Creekside Charter School and […]