2009 Halloween Truss Paddle

Every year on October 31, there is a Halloween Paddle that takes place on the Truss section of the White Salmon River. This year, we had about twelve paddlers on the river in all sorts of costumes: Powerpuff Girl, Butterfly, Grimm Reaper, Wonder Woman, Elvis, the Devil, and many more.

Friday night, heavy rains hit the Gorge, and we woke to spring time levels on the Truss for our little get together.

Check out the video and pictures from one of the greatest days on the river yet!

Halloween Huckfest 2009 from Sheer Madness Productions on Vimeo.

Video by Sheer Madness Productions

Eric Boomer as a Powerpuff Girl dropping Big Brother (Photo by: Seth Swallen)

Jason Schroeder of Outdoorplay as the Grimm Reaper dropping Little Brother in style (Photo by: Seth Swallen)

Kim Russell as Wonderwoman (Photo by: Jesse Becker)

Christie Glissmeyer with matching wings and poagies (Photo by: Ethan Smith)

Heather Herbeck as the Devil (Photo by: Nate Herbeck)

ELVIS! (Photo by: Ethan Smith)

Christie Glissmeyer and Todd Wells make an entrance (Photo by: Ethan Smith)

Erik Boomer and Ryan Scott (Photo by: Ethan Smith)



Despite the wigs, masks, and capes, there was no real carnage on the run and all costumes stayed intact.

Pumpkin cupcakes and prizes! (Photo by: Heather Herbeck)



After the paddle we had a little Halloween celebration in the parking lot at BZ. Event coordinator, Heather Herbeck passed around her homemade delicious cupcakes, while announcing the winners of the costume contest.

Happy Halloween from Hood River!! (Photo by: Heather Herbeck)


And winners of the costume goes ELVIS and WONDERWOMAN! haha. How often is it that you can say those two words in the same sentence? YEA!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!


Kim Russell