Northwest Creeking Competition: East Fork Lewis River extreme race

The second year of the newly-reincarnated NW Creeking Comp went off with a bang April 11-12, 2009. The race, party, huckfest, and camaraderie were sick, as expected. The Columbian wrote an article about it, featuring a photo of me doing an old school pirouette whilst waiting at the hole by Oly's house for some other kayakers to come down:

local dirtbag photo model revealed

If you see the Canoe & Kayak Magazine pictured at right, check it out...I'm in an Accent Paddles ad on the third page, hucking Sunset Falls. I'd been paddling all of 6 months when the shot was taken, and if Luke or Oly's shots had turned out, they'd be in their rightful place in the ad. I'm told I'll be able to pick up a few copies at this weekend's race, so I'm stoked to provide some genuine autographed copies to my family and any groupies.

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Allo, groupies? Are you out there?!? Williekayak(at)gmail(dot)com. ;-)

Update. The ad came out! So far, the spoils of my newfound fame remain to be seen, but I'm sure the riches are en route. The actual ad is pictured to the right. The photoshop work is not particularly stunning, but I'm happy to say that, yes, Luke is my fearless leader, and I'd follow him on most any run, so I'm happy to "Follow the Leader" in the ad.

Northwest Creeking Competition coming April 12th/13th

The first annual Northwest Creeking Competition will be held on Canyon Creek, Washington during the weekend of April 12th/13th. On the 12th is a downriver extreme race with four classes of competition, followed by a simply smashing party at Oly's place on the East Fork Lewis River with video premieres, competitor prizes, a bitchin' raffle, and much good times. The 13th will hold a freestyle waterfall huck competition to see who can run Sunset Falls with the most style.

I'm proud to be helping to organize this event. Our goal is to bring it back to being the community-based and conservation-oriented event that it was it years past. Mad props to Luke S. (in the foreground on the flyer) for being the driving force in making it a reality. If you click the image thumbnail above, you'll see the flyer I made for the event. My longtime friend Bo R. will be heading up from Medford to check it out, and I'm starting to get pretty pumped for it.