Look what followed me home mom

2009 Allstar

Last Ditch Photos

In the RPM

In the Burn

In someone else's K2-Rec with Glenn

Last Ditch Slalom Wolf River

Last Ditch Video

Last Ditch Slalom

Opps, right out of the gate.

Vermillion River Cleanup 2009

Vermillion River, Hastings, MN, river cleanup.

Grandkids 1 and 2

The twins: Scott and Hannah.

St. Croix River - Flatwater in a whitewater kayak

What is out of place in this photo?

Flatwater - St. Croix River

The guy in a helmet: stranger in a strange sea kayak land.

Jim Falls Safety Days - part quatre

Safety Days

New Project: Dagger RPM

Playboat gone. Slalom boat here.

Midwest Freestyle Championship

Next week: a Freestyle Clinic and the Championships

Well, I guess I'm ready for the Jackson Freestyle Clinic next week. Thanks everyone for your instruction and tips on freestyling. It really has helped.

Buttercup Slalom Race - Lower St. Louis River

Opps, too far left.

The Lower St. Louis 210 Drop

Practice time on slalom gates at the 210 Drop

Lower St. Louis - Tongue Drop

Running the Tongue Drop - What rock was he talking about?

13th Annual Carlton Rendezvous

Below the 210 Drop

Jim Falls Safety Vest training

Offensive Floating.

Paddlemania - Lower St. Louis River

Lower St. Louis River

The Gorge July 11 Vermilion River

Starting down toward the Gorge in my Burn with Jim in my Vision56.

River Ramblers Kettle Run

The Kettle River with the River Ramblers

I'm in the off-white Piroullet. Notice just behind Mark (in the purple Dagger) is Teacher's Hole. Ron (to my left in the orange kayak) is showing me his kettle River short-cuts while I try out the Piroullet for the afternoon's Kettle River Festival downriver race. This was my third run in 24 hours. By the time of the race, I had nothing left. The timer got confused but I believe I got 4th best time overall.

Mississippi River Challenge - Beach Captain

Being put in charge of the beach at Fort Snelling during 2008 Mississippi River Challenge was self-inflicted but painless. I put the sign out to let people know where to beach their kayaks if they were only padding one day and needed a shuttle up the hill.

Kettle May 30

Low water. Easy surfing.

May 31

Tagging along with a Canoe-U group across Carlton Reservoir (St. Louis River).

Photo: Sea-Boo

Apple River Slalom

Buttercup Series - Apple River

Little Falls on the Flambeau

Little Falls

Slough Gundy - South Fork Flambeau River

Running Slough Gundy, April 25, 2009

Sand Creek Movie

Thanks kdug@bevcomm.net for the movie.

Todd and Chris Boof Sand Creek Dam

Todd (in a Liquid Logic Jefe) and Chris (Dagger Nomad) and land on foam.

Photos by Joshua Thill, photography student, Southwest Minnesota State University

Standing waves under Sand Creek railroad tressel

Standing waves run from the playspot that's just upstream of this pic, they continue under this railroad tressel, and you can get out by their neighborhood sign the reads "Saw Mill Woods."

Neighborhood "Playspot"

This fairly easily accessible spot is 13.7 miles from my house, 3/4 the way down from Hwy. 8 input, on the Sand Creek, Jordan, MN.

I introduced myself to the people who own the house overlooking it, and they are okay with us cutting through the middle of those 4 unsold (and likely to remain that way) lots to their west of their house (left, as you look at the house), which puts you on a bank of the creek and an eddy, river left, between the hole and the standing waves before the railroad tressle. The snow fence is already tramped down and, be careful, there may be a hint of trampled-down barb wire or wire fence just before the creek. They only ask that you don't use or cut through their backyard. Apparently going down around the east side of the house is really steep.

To get there, go to Hwy 169 to Jordan and go Hwy 21, (or to the Burger King exit Hwy 282 and go right on Hwy 21), then cut up Sawmill Road (opposite 66 where you come out of city park) and look for the neighborhood with a sign "Saw Mill Woods", if you want to go from the plah spot and also run the standing waves, park at the sign and hoof it back to your dumped off boat. Or there is plenty of street parking by the four empty lots that overlook the railroad tressel.

If in the event the neighhood matures, you can hike right up the railroad tracks from that neighborhood sign to the railroad tressel and get to the hole.

New (well, maybe not new) Playboat

Liquid Logic Vision 56 "Bigfoot"

May 2008 - Vermilion River - Table Rock - Class V+

Day two on the Vermilion River near Crane Lake in Minnesota. Steve presents Table Rock, and sets off to tackle this Class V+ run with one other person in a non-self-draining NRS raft. It was indeed interesting to watch them flip.

Welcome to the Boatmeister blog

We hope you enjoy the show.

The Conrads in 1957

That's me at six years pretending to carry water for a photo shoot for the Rock Island Argus in our back yard.

Remember 1974?

Cindy and our Love Bug (which later was manufactured under the trademark "Scamp").

The Boatmeister

Just a few recent photos. There's more!

The Gorge, Vermilion River, May 2008

The Gorge in high water.

Vermilion River

May 2008, Vermilion River, just downstream from Table Rock in a NRS raft, I didn't go this particular run, and was on shore just to the right of that tree.