Brennan's Wave Missoula, Montana
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The Wave
The newest addition to the Missoula Paddling Community, Brennan's wave is located in Missoula, Montana on the Clark Fork River at Caras Park. This moderate play spot is the perfect place to dial in a new play move. At most water levels, this wave will allow for surfing, spinning, cartwheels, loops, helixes, and anything else you might want to try. Plus, there is super-friendly eddy service.
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Photographed at Brennan's Wave, Missoula, Montana, by Chris Lombardi.
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Remembering Brennan
Kayaker's legacy lives on in wavesBy MEA ANDREWS of the Missoulian
Five years after he died in Chile, more than a decade after he started a Montana-made kayaking school, and nearly two decades after captaining his high school basketball and football teams, Brennan Guth has a legacy in the middle of Missoula, the town he called home.
On Sunday, Brennan's Wave near Caras Park will be formally dedicated. It's a man-made, engineered whitewater play pool in the Clark Fork River and is named for the world-class kayaker who died in 2001 at age 32.
The man behind this whirl of water remains very much in the thoughts of his friends and relatives.
"Fishing, bowhunting, athletics - he was someone who focused on something and became engrossed," said his only sibling, Valerie Guth Boyd, who now lives in Minneapolis. "I miss the uncle he would have been to my kids. I'll miss growing old with him."
"He had such a big heart," said his business partner and friend, Land Heflin, one of the friends who built the kayaking school, Tarkio Kayak Adventures, with Guth. "He wanted everyone to be able to experience the rivers. He felt bad about charging people to do it."
"Look at all of the things that make a difference in Missoula," said Mike Munsey of Missoula, a friend of Brennan's father, Dr. David Guth. "This has just made Missoula even more attractive. Besides honoring Brennan, everything like this makes Missoula better."
Brennan would have marveled at the effort it took to get the project in place. Never great at the ledger end of his business ("I told him so many times he needed a bean counter," said his dad), constructing Brennan's Wave took five years, more than $300,000 in donated equipment, labor and cash from companies like Envirocon, support and cash from the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, rafters and kayakers, the medical community, hours of pro-bono work by Missoula lawyer Trent Baker, and the efforts of many friends and relatives.
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A Taste of Missoula & Kayaking Competition
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- Brennan's Wave - Sports Venue - Missoula | Facebook
- Brennan's Wave - Kayakers Paradise, in memory of Brennan Guth | Facebook
- Brennan's Wave Kayakers Forum
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- Team Tarkio created in 1997 by Brennan Guth
- Tarkio Kayak Adventures was created in 1997 by Brennan Guth. Brennan's vision was to create a community for paddlers to come together and enjoy the beautiful rivers of the Northern Rockies, while being guided by some of the best instructors and people who call the river their home. Through multi-day instruction, people would improve their paddling skills while exploring remote canyons and live together on the river. Thus, the idea of 'Team Tarkio' was born.
- Brennan's Wave Missoula | Missoula Gazette
- Brennan's Wave viewed from the other side of the Clark Fork on the Kim Williams Trail Missoula. Brennan's Wave was built to create a play spot for kayakers
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News from the Past
- Brennan's Wave Begins to Take Shape | Dylan Tucker | Missoula | New West Missoula
- The view of the Clark Fork River from downtown is one of the simple joys of Missoula living. On any given day you might see deer crossing the cold waters, a fisherman trolling for trout, or a family of ducks cruising the currents.
- Kayaker's legacy lives on in waves | Missoulian.com
- Five years after he died in Chile, more than a decade after he started a Montana-made kayaking school, and nearly two decades after captaining his high school basketball and football teams, Brennan Guth has a legacy in the middle of Missoula, the town he called home.
- 2010 U.S. Freestyle Kayaking National Championships: Whitewater wranglers take on Brennan's Wave | Missoulian.com
- Big surf, big tricks and some of the biggest names in the flamboyant sport of freestyle kayaking will converge in Caras Park this week when a national competition comes to Missoula for a three-day whitewater rodeo.
- Brennan's Wave | Missoula Whitewater Kayak Park | The Max Wave
- Brennan's Wave has turned the heart of Downtown Missoula into whitewater kayaking paradise. Planned next is The Max Wave, just down river. More about both here.
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Josh
Jan 2, 2009 @ 9:50 pm | delete
- have you seen the 17 year old kid who has surfed that wave only using a boogieboard?
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