Hello paddlers Dave Fusilli here just saying hello from PA.  I have been having a lot of fun in my new boats I,ve been able to put them to the test running the Green a few times in my new Burn and sending the 420 huge at the Gauley.  Everyone I’ve met so far involved with Pyranha have been really fun peeps and damn good paddlers.  Heading to Charlotte tomorrow morn with Jared for some racing then going to route the Green a few times then up to the Gauley to meet up with some good old boyz from CO.  Hope to see ya on the water soon.

 Peace,

Dave Fusilli 

Hey everyone just thought i’d share the exciting times I’ve had in 2006 so far. I started the year off right by moving out of cold snowy jackson, wyoming and to the slightly warmer yet RAINY Hood River oregon. In Hood river we had over 30 days of straight rain at one point and got on lots of good whitewater. Throughout the rest of the spring I was lappin up the little white sometimes three times a day!!!
I spent much of March and April exploring this awesome Island off the B.C. coast called Vancouver Island! the canyons were dark and deep and the drops were amazing!

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There is nothing that gets me more fired up about kayaking than being fox holed into some remote gorge and knowing that I’m one of a select few that gets the pleasure to take on the scenery and spirit of these deep cracks in the Earth. Second to that is reading stories and seeing pictures of other boaters across the world doing the exact same thing. When I scoll through this site, it is obvious that there have been many epic missions this summer. All of us united by the stoke of kayaking and the lifestyle that goes along with it. Excellent work team…it has been an amazing season. And an extra huge shout out to Pyranha this year for producing the Burn and 420! With a record snowpack coming into the summer and an absurd amount of bluebird days, we had one of the best seasons I can remember in BC. Here are a few shots from some of the summer 06 missions!

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It has been a busy month out here. Finishing up the World Cup, Gauley Fest, and a little Green in between. Jeremy and I decided to finish the remainder of the month after the Black Rodeo-with a Team road trip. We picked up new Team member Dave Fusilli and the three of us headed south to Asheville.

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I was in Ashvile on the east coast of the States last month for a friends wedding and I have been meaning to send a shout out an big thanks to Dinver McClure from Pyranha U.S, for helping me out with boats and showing me how to run the Green in true local style….

Cheers and thanks Dinver, if ya want to come out to Norway I can return the favor….

Here are a couple of pictures from last Sunday, one from the Raundalselva and one from the speed descent back down the hill !!

pictures by Dave Annear

A independant review of the new Ammo can be found here:
http://www.cognite.net/review/ammo

So yeh its been the driest summer ever this year in Voss, but you can alway rely on that in September its gonna rain…. and it sure did !! With one good night of rain it was time to pull out a trusty steed from the quiver the Severn O and head to one of the best flows I have surfed on the Milky Wave in down town Voss

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Here’s a few of pics from the Peak UK White Water Challenge at the Nene White Water Centre last weekend. The course is a small artificial course with the main play feature being good for pretty much any hole move going. People were hitting Phonix Monkeys, McNasties and all sorts with us C1 boys schooling the kayakers scores in the heats by over 200 points!!

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Last week a couple of friends of mine and I were allowed to do a couple of test runs down the new artificial course in Leipzig/Germany. Actually, there are two courses, a little and a big one, but they are not officially open yet because there are still many things to be done at the sight.

Once it’s open though I’m sure it will great fun for all the freestyle and slalom kayakers out there, as the course is pretty steep and has relatively much water on it for an artificial one. When they have finished adjusting the obstacles, there will definitely be some nice play holes and waves on course and international freestyle events could be held there. I’m looking forward to it!

Unfortunately I have no pics so far, I might post some later…

This summer, the sort’s local canoe club and the town council have rebuilt a new freestyle spot in Sort. The spot is in the same place that was in the worlds in 2001 or in the european champs in 2004. 

The high flows of the spring of 2005 destroyed the spot of the European Champs in 2004, so there wasn’t a spot any more. 

The new spot is similar to the spot of the worlds, but we just have seen it in low water level, so next spring we’ll see if it becomes on a powerful hole or a big wave. 

I think this spot is a very important thing for the locals who live there because in the last few years freestyle boating in Sort has been decreasing. Furthermore, it will attract more paddlers than before, so tourism will increase, what is important because tourism is the main economical activity. 

Although the spot was created in mid july there have been an international competition, the 43rd International Rally of the Noguera Pallaresa, that includes freestyle, slalom, whitewater racing, an eskimo-roll competition … 

Photos in a few days…

Andria and I have had an excellent year on the road so far working on new guidebooks and paddling as much as possible. You can read trip reports of our travels in the NEWS SECTION of our WEBSITE, but I thought I would post a few photos up here for folks to check out.

Me testing out the Burn in April on Little River Canyon Falls, Alabama, USA

Me on Entrance Falls, Vallecito Creek, Colorado in June.
Photo by Chad Higinbotham

Andria on Mesa Falls, Idaho in July

Andria on Callaghan Creek, BC, Canada in August

Andria and Taylor Cavin doing the simul-drop on Rogers Creek, BC in August.

Stay tuned for more, the year is not over yet!!!!

With the World Cup of Freestyle Kayaking making a stop in Watertown, New York there was a lot going on, and a lot of new people in town.  Everyone seemed to be enjoying all that the great city of Watertown has to offer.  The world Cup seemed like a great event and a great idea, but I’ll let Jeremy and Matt tell you all about that. 

I managed to sneak off with a few friends to check out the Eagle section of the Beaver River.  It is located about 1 hour East of Watertown.  I call it the South Silver of the East.  In about a half a mile it drops almost 200 feet over 4 separate rapids.  The weather was terrible so the pictures aren’t all that spectacular.  I did four laps, walking back to the top each time.  It was so fun I couldn’t stop.  

Taking some time off from school this year opened up my schedule for some epic kayaking trips. Starting off the year in Ecuador with a month-long kayak vacation set the bar for the months to come.

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This august a motley crew consisting of myself, Ali Donald, Dave Carroll, Rosie Cripps and Sam Hughes found ourselves on the roof of the world in Ladakh, India. The idea was to paddle some classic multiday rivers like the Tsarap, Zanskar and Indus.

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Well what a weekend it was over in wet and windy Wales here in the UK for the Coaching Festival at the Tryweryn. Loads of people turned up for the event either for a boat down the river of for one of the many courses going on and the new Ammo and Recoil generated a lot of interest on the stand. It was the first time these new toys had really been seen in public and the Ammo in particular got loads of attention.

Luckily, being fairly short I managed to squeeze myself into the small pre-production boat and give it a whirl. I have to say that I’m not sure I have had so much fun in a boat for ages. Get the Ammo down the river and it’s incredibly manouverable cutting in and out of eddies with ease using those seriously cool edges and short length. Get it on a wave however and it paddles just like a playboat. Spins, small sidekicks, blunts, you name it I’m sure this boat will do it!! In fact, I had about seven, “one last go’s”. I can’t wait to get my paws on a larger one and giving it a spin.

Check out the pic below of me running a rarely run drop in the Ammo. Can you name it?

Photo by: Andy Marsh

Fall is my favorite season in New York.  Every weekend in September and October there is a great class IV/V dam controlled river to paddle on (thanks Chris Koll, Pete Skinner, and American Whitewater).  I kicked off the fall dam release season with runs on the Raquette River and Moshier section of the Beaver. 

Saturday I found myself doing lap after lap on the Raquette.  I just could not stop it was too much fun.  Sunday I ran the Moshier section of the Beaver River, which is the gem of the Beaver river system.  Sunday was the only day the Moshier section will run all year so I motivated for 3 laps down the 4 mile run.  Monday I went back to the Raquette for another 4 laps. 

 I only got a couple of pictures because I was too busy paddling. 

Next week it’s on to the Eagle section of the Beaver.  Yahoo !

Yep, that s right, we out here in Norway are always busy! This weekend the rains finaly came!!!! Yehaaar. Liz came out and we headed up to the Myrkdale River. Seemed like a good day to test a new PFD!

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Well its been the driest summer ever (except when Rob visited!!) and finally it has started raining again!!!!

Here are some images of summer fun.