Colorado Wedding and the Feather River Festival

What a busy month! After the American River Festival, we headed to Colorado to attend our friends Nathan Fey and Marin Peterson’ s wedding. Nathan is the Colo. American Whitewater rep. and Marin is a Predator Helmet rep. so of course we ended up on the water. After the wedding, 19 of the wedding guests drove to Utah to float the Westwater section of the Colorado River. It is a 17 mile class 3/4 float and we did it as an overnighter. The waves were big, the water cold and brown, the camp, cliffs, scenery, spectacular! My family was in our kayaks and the bride and groom were in our Dynamic Duo, and there were a few other kayaks and about 5 rafts, including our 14 foot raft Big Red, who was being paddled by the brides brother in law. LOTS OF FUN! After floating the river, we drove home, unpacked, repacked and drove to the Feather River Festival. I had a great time running the class 3 Rock Creek section and Class 4 Lobin as well as running the slalom course. The weekend highlight was the great party and fundraiser for American Whitewater that the Chico Paddleheads put on. They had 2 bands, hula hoops, fiber optic antennas and about 400 people. I was also able to have my friend Molly sleep over in the van. We both slept upstairs with my dogs Wyatt and Kenya-the 2 biggest ridgebacks, and had a blast-and slept well. 

Now we are home, cleaning and repacking the van so we can go to Yosemite for a week where I’m going to climb Snake Dike, a 7 pitch 5.7 climb on Half Dome. Wish me luck!

Support Team HugABug As We Walk for A Cure

The Reno Junvenile Diabetes Research Fund Walk for the Cure is on Sunday, October 12th at the University of Nevada, Reno campus on the main quad. Each years it’s a fun even with plenty of activities and diabetes-friendly food for the whole family. Each year after I was diagnosed at the age of 3, my team and I walk and raise as much money as we can to find a cure for diabetes.

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Please support my team this year with any sort of donation you can afford

Idaho and the American River Festival

 

It’s been another several busy weeks!  It started with an American Whitewater scheduled release on the Pitt River in California where I love to run the class 4 Hero Slide right next to the 30 ft waterfall.  It’s a blast!  Then we headed over to Idaho for some fun with our friends the Voorhees family. We started out on the Gutter, the neighborhood play spot, and I competed in their local Hometown Throwdown, then it was up to Garden Valley where we camped out and ran the Staircase and Canyon sections of the South Fork of the Payette River.  The highlight was watching 12 y/o Alec run the class 5 + Big Falls-and he stomped it!  Dad also was able to do several runs on the upper North Fork of the Payette, another class 5 section, and he had a ball!  We had to leave a few days early because my Grandmother had a heart attack, but she is OK now. Then next week was the American River Festival where I competed in the rodeo, slalom race and the duo down river race with my Dad.  I was the only girl in Jrs. and competed against two boys, both over 15-I placed 3rd. Sunday was the slalom race where I competed against another teenage girl and the boy who won the rodeo. but this time I was first!  Then Dad and I hopped into our Dynamic Duo and did the first inaugural Lars Holbeck Memorial Down River Race from Chili Bar to Trouble Maker. We were the only parent/child team so we were first, but we were only 1 minute behind the 3rd place adult team