Early last month, my buddy Joel and I headed up to Idaho’s Lake Chatcolet to test out a few of NRS’s new inflatable SUPs. Here’s a quick video snapshot of the paddle.
Facing Waves is a new paddlesport TV series that starts airing this spring on Outside Television and will be shown internationally. /via
You have my attention.
The text came in after 10:00pm Thursday night: “Wanna go boatin’ Saturday?” Does a one legged duck swim in a circle?
For December in northern Idaho, the weather was just about perfect: upper 40’s and low 50’s, non-driving rain from time to time, and sunny blue skies as we approached the takeout. We were on the road pre-dawn (I haven’t seen 5:30am in a good long while) and home in time to read stories to the kids before their afternoon naps.
Fantastic day.
You just knew there was nausea-inducing shaky GoPro head cam video of last week’s lake adventures, didn’t you?
(There’s just no good way to mount a GoPro camera on inflatable boats.)
Our good friends Dan and Betsy are in town from Phoenix for a quick weekend visit. We took some SUPs up to Heyburn State Park to enjoy the (relative to Phoenix) cool summer weather.
For Family Night last night, I loaded up a borrowed SUP board from work and trucked the Maxfield crew up to a local reservoir. Everyone got a turn (or two), plus the kids got in some swimming and rescue throw bag practice. Good times.
A quickly cut edit from yesterday’s SUP adventure (which, I should point out, was my first time on a SUP—so, you know, moving water was just logical). Many thanks to my intrepid co-workers Darren K. and Josh G. for allowing me to be the day’s anchor.
Music: “Line of Flight” by Revolution Void (via Vimeo’s Music Store)
Day off. In January. All as it should be.
This is the mind dump of J Maxfield, a former whitewater river guide, bike shop mechanic, and kayak rental dude that now finds himself making a living in 