Hello kayakers - 

 

If you would like to see a pool practice session happen in Monroe Washington, they are on the verge of starting a pool session.  I've talked with them a couple times.  They almost started a class in September.  They have a highschool teacher doing a few kayak things there with some students now and then.  

I told them about another YMCA presently doing this and this sped things along - now they are contacting that other branch to get the details on closing all the gaps to make it happen.  

If you would like to cheerfully enthusiastically positively help this effort in any way here is the Monroe YMCA info:

14033 Fryelands Boulevard
Monroe WA 98272
360 805 1879

  UPDATE:  POOL SESSIONS STARTING AT MONROE YMCA

I got word from the aquatics director at the Monroe YMCA that the pool sessions are currently "slated to start on Tuesday, December 1^st from 8:30-9:30pm and will run every week on Tuesday evening’s from 8:30-9:30pm."

The Tuesday night weekly Monroe YMCA Kayak Pool session launched tonight with 11 whitewater kayakers in the water.  Great start.

Make sure and thank Neill Mathes - the Aquatics Director - who hung out for the first one.  He has kayaked a bit himself and wants to do more.  

Thank to the folks who called the location to encourage this - because I heard that indeed you did.  

 

My only sadness is that I cannot go to this kayak session and the Marysville one as they are on the same night and there are a couple buddies I am missing out there already.  But it was great to have one close enough to take my youngest too.  "Boo" is 8 and has shown tremendous passion and fearlessness for kayaking - which she is known for in other adventure sports as well.  A WKC member responded to my want ad in the WKC classifieds forum, and hooked Boo up with her very own PINK kayak just in time for the first Monroe pool session.  So Boo is not gonna miss a beat this winter.  And ask Jimmy Nipper - she almost got a roll on her first pool session! 

 

 

Renee,