Farmlands and the Green Truss

So saturday rolled around and we had big plans for some expedition to new creeks. The roaring river was mentioned in the list but as weekend approached the water seemed to disappear and the options were quickly becoming limited. On Friday night the choice was made to head back to the classic, the Green Truss. Saturday morning after looking at the flows and the time we decided we would go for a Farmlands Truss combo (10 miles of the PNW's best IV-IV+ paddling). Not only was this my first time down the farmlands it would be the highest any of us had run the Truss. (just around or over 2.75 winter flow) The farmlands was fun, scenic and I now see why so many people love it; the truss was pretty juicy. The rapids above Big Brother were much pushier than I had seen them before and everything below double drop cleaned up and become more fun with the extra water. Upper Zig Zag was great, lower Zig Zag was still do-able and BZ just looked ugly as we all walked around. All in all a great day on the river; great weather, good crew, great flow and run. My paddling seemed to be a little off, but you can't let a few rolls ruin your day.
Here is a short video with a little bit of footage from the day. Did not shoot much in consideration of time.

Hagen Gorge and the Washougal

Hagen Gorge: This run has been on my list of must do runs since I first read the post on OregonKayaking. Finally the water lined up with a weekend that I was going to be in town and had a crew to run it with. We met up early, which ended up being good because we did the whole NF Washougal run after Hagen and it took a good chunk of the day.
Low water on Hagen and good water on the Washougal made for a fun day and first time down. 1 small swim, a sore shoulder, an almost scary ride in the hole half way down Hagen Daaz Falls, 1 backwards and 1 sideways ride down teakettle, a couple long hole rides on the Washougal and we had done the whole run. After doing it, I would strongly recommend that anyone doing Hagen also does the whole NF run as well. Having never done either before, I felt that if we would have taken out at the upper take out the run would have been really short and missed a lot of fun stuff.

Sorry I could not get youtube to like a higher res version of this, but here is the video anyway. Enjoy!