Reno-Tahoe

Jackson Kayak shipped me the new Super Star over night delivery, which was unbelievably cool on their part, and I was stoked to finally be in the best kayak ever. I was starting to think the 2007 Super Star to be a myth, but I was oh so wrong. I paddled it down to the hole and told EJ who was there training that my first ride ever in the new boat would be a 140 point ride.

I think that I actually would have scored 120 points, but that is awesome considering I had been in the boat all of 5 minutes.

So, the Festival went off great this year. At one point we had over 8000 people watching us compete. Yes, 8000!! And after all in said and done we probably broke the 30,000 people for the weekend mark. How cool is that for a river event. Its the best event of its type in the world if you ask me.

Thanks to Jim Litchfield, the RSCVA, all of the people who worked to produce to event, the volunteers, the vendors, and the people of Reno for being so supportive of this great event.

Anyways, the competition was unbelievably tough this year. Brian Kirk was having amazing rides as well as Andrew Holcomb, Stephen Wright, Ben Guska, Macy Burnham, and of course EJ. Brian, EJ, and I made the cut to the top three, and in the first round of that Brian was eliminated having his worse ride of the day, and me having my best, being 169 points. So, it came down to EJ and myself, just like I like it, and I was fortunate enough to come out with the win. EJ was competing awesome and that is not easy to to when coming off a huge emotional weekend at the Worlds the week before. I am very happy to have won this event. Being able to represent the brand new Super Star well, winning in my home town, and competing head to head with EJ all make this a memorable event for me.

So, now it is on to Colorado. I will be leaving on Wednesday and will update you somewhere along the way.