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Kayak Adventures... in the beginning

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MidAmerica Canoe Race on the Fox River, northern IL, 1989. Used to be 26 miles with five portages, and one year we came in third among mixed couples!
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I'm the first to try a duckie [inflatable kayak] on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in 1991.
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My first ever time in a "kayak"! I got swamped by a rapid shortly after this photo.
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Paddling a cardboard craft in the annual Cardboard Regatta in Glen Ellyn in 1998.
We started paddling long before we bought our first kayaks. Our first canoe, bought in 1981, was a bit of a clunker, but we paddled in it as a family of four, and Don and I raced it until we bought a beatiful Wenonah racing canoe in 1988. We started whitewater rafting on the Colorado River near Steamboat Springs in 1981, replacing that gentle trip with big whitewater like the Grand Canyon in 1985, where I even tubed a big rapid. And we tried duckies [inflatable kayaks] for the first time when we rafted the Middle Fork of the Salmon in 1991. In 1998 we even paddled a friend's cardboard craft in the annual Cardboard Regatta, though we did sink our second time around!
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Canoeing a culvert with our sons at the Mississippi headwaters in Itasca, M, in 1981.
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Rafting Tanner Falls on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in 1991.
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Don then tried the duckie. He, too, was swamped.
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I tubed a Class 6 [out of 10] rapid in the Grand Canyon in 1985, the first to try it! I did go under but honored my promise not to lose the tube. A bit waterlogged after drinking the Colorado River!
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  • Home
  • About Us
  • In the Beginning...
  • INTERNATIONAL KAYAKING
    • Baja, Mexico 1997
    • Belize 2005
    • Amalfi Coast 2006
    • Haida Gwaii BC 2007
    • More Haida Gwaii
    • Portugal 2008
    • More Portugal
    • Cinque Terre & Sardinia 2013
    • More Cinque Terre & Sardinia
    • Vietnam 2015
    • More Vietnam
    • Italy's Lake Country 2017
    • More Lake Country
    • Sicily 2018
    • More Sicily
    • Cuba 2019
    • More Cuba
    • Amazon 2019
    • More Amazon
  • U.S. KAYAKING
    • 10,000 Islands, FL 1995
    • Alaska 1999
    • Alaska 1999 More Photos
    • Maine 2000
    • Outer Banks, NC 2002
    • Madison, WI 2013
    • Other Wisconsin Trips
    • Seattle Kayaking 2014
    • Captiva Reunion 2015
    • Horicon Marsh, WI 2017
    • Great River Rumble 2017
    • More Great River Rumble
    • New Orleans Kayaking 2018
    • Lake Geneva, WI 2018
    • Citizen Scientists for the Shedd Aquarium 2018
    • Mankato, MN 5.21
    • Monterey CA 9.21
    • Cherokee March on Yahara River, Madison, WI 10.21
  • LOCAL KAYAKING
    • Fox River 2007
    • Fox River 2013
    • Ferson Creek on the Fox 2014
    • Chicago Kayaking 2015
    • Fox River 2016
    • The Flooded Fox 2018
    • Water Fowl on the Fox River 2018
    • Grunewald Forest Preserve 6.8.20
    • Fox River 7.5.20
    • Fox River 7.25.20
    • Fox River 8.4.20
    • Fox River 8.16.20
    • Ferson Creek 10.7.20
    • Fabyan Villa Put-in 3.20.21
    • Fabyan Villa Put-in 5.16.21
    • Fox River 8.3.21
    • Fox River 9.19.21
    • Fox River 10.18.21
    • Fox River 10.22.21
    • Ferson Creek 10.30.21
    • Fox River 11.8.21
  • 50th Anniversary 2018
  • BLOG
  • PREFERRED PROVIDERS
  • Contact Us