Willamette River overnighter

Friday of last week Calvin, Brody, Kirk, Scott, and Cory left from Wallace Marine Park in Salem and kayaked down the Willamette River. We had a wonderful time enjoying the evening of the river. We passed by Keizer River Rapids Park and stopped at the first island we saw. We ended up finding a perfect location for our camp site. Once we made a path through the brush we found an area full of rocks and sand. We leveled some areas for our tents and made camp. Cory made us a great fire pit and started a fire, we cooked hot dogs, hot chocolate, and Mountain Men meals. We had smores and talked around the campfire. There was plenty of wood to be found so we had a fire on Friday night and Saturday morning. We got up Saturday morning, Kirk and Calvin fished for a while. Heath our friend joined us for our trek down to Wheatland Ferry. Along the way we saw a total of 6 Bald Eagles, 2 deer, and tons of blue heron. Calvin enjoyed fishing and almost caught two fish and was fairly close to getting wet reeling in one of them! We want to do this trip again we had a wonderful time!!!

Independence to Salem is 11.5 miles.

Salem to Wheatland Ferry is 12.5 miles.

We are planning an overnight kayaking trip for next month. We plan on spending the night on an island on the Willamette River! Sound like FUN!

Willamette River to Wheatland Ferry

Me kicking back and enjoying the beautiful day!

Kirk and his goofy grin.

We sure missed Calvin!

Kirk and Scott departed Salem about 8:30am on Saturday the 21st of November for a quick trip down to Wheatland Ferry. We both had GPS machines that showed how fast we were going. We went a total of 10 and half miles, it took us about an hour and a half. We were drifting at about 4 miles an hour. The river was moving very fast. We goofed around going around small trees and bushes that had lost their leaves. All in all it was a very fun run.

Here are some pictures Kirk took with his phone.

Olallie Lake

Today, Friday Aug. 7th the Yak Brothers of Oregon went to Olallie Lake up past Detroit Lake. Here is a brief synopsis of what happened:

Fortunately Calvin and Kirk found a spectacular Lake to visit!

Unfortunately Scott dropped Calvin's fishing pole in the Lake. I am a loser!

Fortunately the water was really warm, in fact it was so warm we would put our freezing hands into the water to warm them up!

Unfortunately Kirk's birthday fishing pole broke in half.

Fortunately Kirk used Calvin's other pole and CAUGHT A FISH!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately we almost died coming home when a truck and his trailer just about ran us off the road.

Fortunately Calvin is a great driver and we did not die.

Unfortunately it takes about 2 hours to get to the Lake.

Fortunately we had tons of fun and we will be going back to that wonderful lake.

Unfortunately we had to come home.

Fortunately we saw a beautiful bald eagle.

Finally both fortunately and unfortunately it was cold, but the cool thing was the mist and fog we got to go through. The fog was so dense we couldn't see each other more than 30-40 feet away.

Anyway that's enough of that, here are some great pictures and hopefully a video.

The foggy day on the lake!

Kirk fishing

The water was very choppy, but lots of fun!

Champoeg to Wilsonville

Kirk, Calvin, and Scott (that's me) went on a long kayaking trek a couple of weeks ago. We loaded up Kirk's cool new Jeep with the trailer full of our kayaks.


We left Calvin's truck at Memorial Park in Wilsonville and went to Champoeg Park and put in at about 9:00am. We played around, fished, and floated for about two hours and ended up going about seven miles in less than two hours.

I took this picture of my Kayak with our cool new logos. Also here are a couple of more pictures of our Willamette River trip.

Willamette River by Salem

Cory, Red 5, and The Hub went out Kayaking today for about two hours. We had a blast! Cory was with me he took the pictures. We floated around and did some exploring. We discovered 2 deer, and a squirrel. The deer were amazing! I'll post some of the better pictures.

Red Leder had to work tonight so he didn't make it.

Fun! Fun! Fun!

This is me (Red 5) with my new Yak. We had a really fun time!