Holy cow, what a great Sunset Race! Role Call: in order of finish Joey Hager => skinny wooden kayak 1st place Joe Sartori => kayak Hogan/JoJo => 17′ Grumman Danielle Sartori => skinny kayak Charles/Paul => 17′ Osagian It was a great number of boats and we had ourselves an aluminum shootout! Grumman vs Osagian. … Continue reading “82nd Sunset Race – 9/10/2015”
Race for the Rivers is an annual event benefiting the Greenway network. We’ve been racing in this event since 2011. Since I do other races during the year, this is Danelle’s time to paddle. I’m just here to support her. I also take tons of photographs. To see the rest of the album, hop over … Continue reading “Race For The Rivers – 8/29/2015”
We had a new participant for the Sunset Race this month, Kelly Kasten. She is a local SUP paddler, but we were happy to have her join us! Also along was Joe Sartori and JoJo. This month was more of a casual paddle than a race, and a good time! Hogan Haake
I wanted to have a family float on the river. For as much as I love paddling, I don’t do a very good job of bringing my family into it. This was a step to correct that. I prefer the Missouri river when the timing is good. However, the river was high and I worried … Continue reading “Bourbeuse River Family Float – 8/8/2015”
I love paddling the MR340 race, but it didn’t work out this year. Instead, I re-worked the race tracking site RaceOwl. In order to ensure the site worked good, I sat on the sidelines and babysat the website. I’m glad I did as there were a few hiccups that needed to be worked out. As … Continue reading “Missouri River 340 – 7/31/2015”
I promise, this is the last of my insanely frequent visits to the Meramec River in Valley Park. I took the kids earlier in the day to see it and I just wanted to paddle it myself. So I went out to the river with my kayak! Hogan Haake
The Meramec river was up a bunch. In fact, it was flooding and still rising. Danelle, JoJo and I decided to meet at the river for dinner and a paddle. We brought the pizza and she the beer. After a quick meal and conversation with a fellow paddler, we were ready to paddle. I placed … Continue reading “Paddle with Jo – 8/18/2015”
So I talked Danelle into a canoe race with me. A simple 72 mile race in South Dakota. Here is how it all went down. Thursday after work was the last day of school for the kids. We went to the after school party and let the kids hang around till right before 7pm. Then … Continue reading “South Dakota Kayak Challenge – 5/22/2015”
Jon and JoJo came out for this Sunset Race. Jon and I have been talking for a while and he wanted to try out my 20″ unicycle. So I brought it out and watched him perform. He still has it. Luckily, nobody got hurt and we still had a fantastic paddle! Hogan Haake
Danelle and I are participating in the South Dakota Kayak Challenge at the end of the month.Its a 72 mile race and this is our first real training run. The plan was that I would do the Mud Run in the morning, come home and get ready, then drop the kids off at Grandma’s house … Continue reading “Training on the Meramec – 5/2/2015”