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January 05, 2006
Surfing the Truckee
The Reno-Tahoe Blog will occasionally feature entries from athletes sponsored by Reno-Tahoe, America's Adventure Place. Jay Kincaid, professional kayaker, has been paddling over half of his lifetime, and is back to blog about his life as a professional kayaker living in Reno, NV. As 2003 Freestyle Kayaking World Champion, 2001 U.S. National Champion and three-time U.S. Point Series Champion, Jay is the most proud of the many first descents he's done on rivers and waterfalls in his native Oregon and in California.
OK, all of the holiday traveling is done!!! I had a great time meeting Lisa’s family in Canada and I had a great time with my family up in Oregon, but I couldn’t be happier to be home.
While in Oregon I paddled the McKenzie with Taylor Robertson and Jason Bowerman at over 7 feet. It was actually the first time that I had ever done it that high. When I lived in Eugene and the water was that high we would always go run something warmer in the Coast Range. The surfing was “top shelf” and I definitely woke up sore the next day, which is due to the fact that I didn’t paddle the whole time in Canada. I went to the gym and ran everyday with Lisa during those two weeks up North, but there is really no way to properly condition all the smaller paddling muscles in the gym.
I just got home about 5 hours ago. I hurried to unpack the car, ran Porter at the dog park, and then gathered up my gear and headed to the river. While I was gone the Truckee flooded and reached flows of nearly 20,000 cfs. I would have loved to see that! Tonight it was running around 3000 cfs and there was a wave/hole at the bottom that was in my opinion, world class.
Surely the river bead has changed a bit and it will be interesting to see how things look when the water recedes. Hopefully that won’t happen anytime soon though.
The whole West Coast is going off, but the way things look right now, there is no reason to leave Reno. So for at least the next few days I will be spending the majority of my day surfing on the Truckee. And after that, who knows. All I know is that I will be on the river every day until I leave for Uganda on the 13th. And I will be throwing down!
Posted by AdventureGrrl at January 5, 2006 03:52 PM