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425-814-4140 x 14 (Paddler office)

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This is totally nerdy, but sometime this fall/winter, I want to have a Sammamish Slough race. The course is in Woodinville at Wilmot Gateway Park and is Class I-. Paddlers would paddle down for about 1.25 mile and then turn around and race back up. The crux of the entire race is near the end, where you'd have to attain an eddy by paddling up some pretty fast current. (At certain flows, this piece gets my heart rate up to 180 beats per minute.) The whole race should take about 30 minutes, depending upon which kind of boat you're paddling. The fun in the race is not necessarily in the water--but mostly in beating other paddlers. Although the course appears completely flat (it is), it harbors a dozen spots where being in the right thread can zip you upstream at a fast rate or being in the wrong place can doom you. My fellow editors and I have been out there twice a week or so and I gotta tell ya, as long as there's someone there to race you, it's fun.

I'd want to do the race somewhat spontaneously, with maybe 10 days notice or so, so it doesn't correspond with high water levels, when everyone is out paddling something AWESOME.

It would be informal, no prizes or microphones. Just a way to add some vibrance to the grayness of winter. Let me know who's interested.

Christian Knight