Local park n play workouts
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Printed Date: 09 Oct 2025 at 10:28pm
Topic: Local park n play workouts
Posted By: dave
Subject: Local park n play workouts
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2012 at 10:15pm
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I thought I would divulge my spots to access park n play workouts. All you gato do is park and short walks for great solo safe workouts.
The MM put in at Island drop 45 min from home (Renton) The Cedar slolom course 15 min from my house Snoqualmi Powerhouse 30 min from home Green river at Kanasket park section 35 min from home Green river Paradise ledge- but I wont solo here, too scary There are more, but these are the best class III spots nearby This my secret to boating 3 or more days a week. During the workweek. ------------- Nomad |
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2012 at 10:16pm
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Some people may say this isnt kayaking, but hey, my sh*t is wet and yours is not. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: Dale
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 9:15am
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Love it Dave.
I've been looking for a park n surf near the corner of 22nd Ave and E. Columbia in Seattle. So far, no luck. The Headworks section of the Green is almost a park n surf. The run and the shuttle are really short and the surfing is pretty decent down to 500ish cfs. I've heard of a nice surfing spot on the Cedar below the slalom course. Anybody know where that is and how easy the access is? There is also a nice surfing spot on the YoYo at a lot of levels, though... eddy service is lacking. |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 9:47am
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At one time there was a nice surf spot on the Cedar just up stream of the 405 bridge. It was nothing epic but you could flat spin and get maybe one or two ends on it. Like a more shallow and less retentive version of turkey shoot. Me and a friend called it 24x7 wave because there was a light above it so you could surf at night. Bummer is that they pulled out the concrete curtain that formed the wave so now it is gone.... I know exactly where to stack the rocks so it would come back though...  |
Posted By: Mr.Grinch
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 5:30pm
| Why too scary about soloing Paradise? I almost went there solo with intent on just playing (ran Tilton instead) at 1500cfs. I know it is quite swirly immediately downstream of the play spot, but is there anything of caution that I'm unaware of? |
Posted By: Dale
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 7:09pm
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That area around Paradise is pretty undercut and there are pretty impressive pot holes showing. No telling what's hidden. Are there pot holes underwater with water flowing through them? If a swim went bad and you were swept downstream, then it gets a bit sievey.
The sieves, undercuts and pot holes found on the Green are pretty common in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina & Alabama. There are a few classic spots where, at low water, swimmers swim through pot holes underwater as a game. An entrance and an exit. It's all good until it gets filled with wood. I'd love to do a low water snorkel/swim trip down there this summer when it's warm. James... I wish you had better news about that playspot on the Cedar. That would be damned convenient for me. |
Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 8:25pm
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Well, it all comes down to individual's comfort zones which varies. The rapid below Paradise has that wood sticking out from the keft bank. Obviously I respect each individual's decision process on what is or isn't safe for them personally.
That said I think the Paradise zone is just fine for a competent class IV boater to solo about. I don't consider the undercuts to be in play, but you still need to know where they are to keep them out of play. My policy on solo boating is generally not to boat something that could cause me to swim, and generally I boat a class below my ability unless I really really know the run like the back of my hand. Like my man Pernick says: "choose your own adventure" ------------- 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 |
Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 8:28pm
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But, yeah- there are lots of local options. "Kayaking", by the way, is just what you make it. Whatever you want it to be. "Choose your own adventure" ------------- 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:27pm
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I solo run the upper and lower Green, but dont solo park n play Paradise because a swim there can be nasty. I only solo park n play stuff I feel comfy self rescue swimming in.
There is a great surf/play wave right below the bridge at the Cedar slolum course that I go to all the time and is good at all levels. Not spectacluar but good. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:28pm
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Correction, upriver from the bridge about 50 ft river center. When your standing on the bridge it is right below you. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: osmelendez
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 6:32pm
| This sounds rad. Working on my play boat this weekend to get it up and running and would like to hit these spots up. Longer for me though because I'm in downtown seattle |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 7:32pm
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Just got off Bobs Hole park n play. It was rad today and a few guys out there. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: osmelendez
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 8:38pm
| sweeet. I need my play boat up and running like TODAY! discovered that I have a rip in my spray skirt also. |