Kids kayaking in Lyons

The kids program in Lyons is going strong. There are two boys Garret and Keagan Parker, who will be competing in the Lyons Outdoor Games cadet rodeo. Other participants are: Teagan Johnson from Longmont, Ilse Meiler from Lafayette, And Spencer Huff from Lyons. Teagan if pictured here.



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Photos by Daily Up Photography, Becky Parker

May 12 Lyons River Report, by Matt Booth

I paddled the Play Park today. I would guess the flow to be about 160 in town. The Black Bear hole was amazing (as usual). You can surf all day and do left and right spins ad nauseam. Very low angle cart wheels are possible. The A-Hole is amazing. The new river right wing is really focusing the waters energy into the center of the pile. The hole is nicely retentive and steep enough for my first completed air loop of the season. The hole is much better at these lower flows than in years past and looks as though it will be nice and juicy at higher flows. I went to look at the new gage we made for SSV (Thanks To Arn) It is at negative 3 inches. (Down 3 inches from 4 days ago). A rough guess of a decent flow is 6 inches. That's all I got.

Lyons Outdoor Update April 27

Today Lyons' residents awoke to a light smattering of snow, which melted by 8a.m. Now it's drizzly and cool, but the river is running high.

Scott Shipley on is three-hour excursion down the South Saint Vrain yesterday (his second time on the river in five years): "I liked it a lot. I forgot about how good it was until I got up there yesterday. It helped that Scott Young had been down it a lot. We didn't have to scout as much because he knows the river so well."

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Report from Scott Young on South Saint Vrain River kayaking & Hall Ranch report, April 26

Paddled low water mank on SSV today with Scott Shipley, Shane and Jakob. Adam and Arn showed up and watched us bumpety bump down the crick! It was minimum flow, and the phrase "Plastic is Fantastic!" kept rolling through my mind. First run on SSV for Shipley, who catches lots of eddies, just like a good slalom boater should. I catch eddies so I can catch my breath. I think he catches them for other reasons. Great to get the first paddle of the year in on my favorite home creek!
-Scott Young
www.blueskymortgagegroup.com

In re: Hall Ranch...
Conditions on the trail were dry, good. Perfect. There were a lot of bikers out there.
-Madaleine Sorkin

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