Shoshone NYD 2019- The First Day of the New Paddling Season!

by Holcombe Family | Jan 14, 2019 | Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, United States, Whitewater

NYD-Shoshone 2019 My wife Kathy keeps telling me this is ridiculous. We are driving away from the winter paddling Mecca of the South Eastern US to the frozen river winter wasteland of Colorado to go kayaking on New Years Day. Now I know exactly what I’ve gotten myself...

Famagogo in the Grand Canyon: Family Adventure Self-Support

by Holcombe Family | Mar 31, 2018 | Family Zone, karma traverse, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Grand Canyon 2018-Famagogo self-support trip Winter in North America can be a challenging place for a kayaker, but if you like big adventures there is one place where the water is always flowing and the rapids are giant. This is a place surrounded by hundreds of miles...

Shoshone New Years Day-The first day of the next paddling season

by Holcombe Family | Jan 4, 2018 | Creeking, Event Coverage, Family Zone, Internationalisation, River Running, United States, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

After a lovely Christmas spent with family in Oklahoma, it was time to decide where to spend the winter. That is the best and worst part of life on the road: choosing where to go when absolutely anywhere is a possibility. The sensible thing would be to head back to...

CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK:  A BACKCOUNTRY PARADISE

by Holcombe Family | Oct 8, 2017 | Family Zone, karma traverse, Kid's Kayaks, Recreational/Touring, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater

The Channel Islands are composed of a chain of eight islands (five of which make up the national park) off the coast of California stretching from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. After a little research, we set our sights on a three day backcountry adventure on Santa...

Shoshone NYD 2017- A New Year of Paddling in Colorado

by Holcombe Family | Jan 5, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Internationalisation, River Running, rivers, United States, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

There is a really amazing tradition in Colorado. Every New Years Day a gathering of the most passionate paddlers in the rocky mountain region converge on the Shoshone section of the Colorado River. This section has the most consistent flows of un-frozen whitewater in...

Twice the fun! Surfing with kids in the Dynamic Duo.

by Holcombe Family | Aug 10, 2014 | Dynamic Duo, Whitewater

If you want to teach someone to kayak the Jackson Kayak, Dynamic Duo is one of the best tools you can have and besides that they are really fun to paddle! We have been getting a lot of use out of ours this summer. On this day we were working with getting Abby (age 10)...

Grand Adventures in little boats: A Grand Canyon Self-Support

by Holcombe Family | Aug 5, 2014 | Whitewater

I’ve had a dream of kayaking the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon ever since my first year of paddling in 1996. Eighteen years is a long time to wait for something and over time my dream morphed from simply wanting to be invited on a raft trip, to maybe...

Daddy Daughter Kayak Session

by Holcombe Family | May 3, 2014 | Dynamic Duo, Whitewater

Spring has sprung in Colorado. Days are longer allowing for paddling after school and our rivers are on the rise. I love this time of year as everyone is excited to get back on our local rivers that have been hibernating for the winter. Abby Holcombe is 9 years old...

Exploring Mono Lake by Kayak

by Holcombe Family | Feb 17, 2014 | Cruise 10, Recreational/Touring

Did you ever want to paddle an inland sea that’s water is 10x saltier than the ocean? A place where brine shrimp thrive, and birds come by the millions to feast on an all you can eat shrimp buffet.  Given the chance, would you paddle on the moon (if it had water)? A...

New Years Day on Shoshone: The First Day of the New Paddling Season

by Holcombe Family | Jan 3, 2014 | Whitewater

No one thinks of Colorado as a winter paddling destination. But every New Years Day a growing group of very inspired paddlers meets at high noon to paddle on the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon on the Shoshone section. This tradition has been going on for a long...

The First Day of the New Paddling Season

by Holcombe Family | Jan 3, 2013 | Whitewater

We get lots of weird looks driving west on I-70 with five kayaks on the roof of my truck. Many of the other vehicles have skis and snowboards and are headed to one of the many world class ski resorts Colorado is famous for. But this New Years Day we are headed to...

Ibis goes to Lake Powell

by Holcombe Family | Dec 16, 2012 | Recreational/Touring

It’s dawn on the shore of Lake Powell, AZ, I have the 12 foot+ Jackson Ibis on my shoulder walking down the steep hillside to the water line. I think to myself this boat is way longer than I am used to but it is lighter on my shoulder than I expected. I reach the...