While I was at home sick with Pneumonia, Inner City Strife in Waterown, New York Came in. My Roommate Brian met Jeremy and a bunch of other folks over the. It looked like they had a good time. I wish I could have been there.

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After a full on paddling summer in Canada and States, Eirik and I are back to the North Pole (Norway that is) to enrich our bank account again before the next season. As my health slowly came back, we took advantage of the last warm week-end to paddle on the Dagali river: a beautifull stretch of norwegian style ‘big water’-steep rapids river… (more…)

Some days ago, there was an international competition in “La Seu d’Urgell” (Spain), one of the slalom courses of the Slalom World Cup.The competition included flatwater racing, slalom and freestyle. 

The competition was between Catalonia (Spain), Rhone-Alps (France), Lombardia (Italy) and Waden Güttemberg (Germany). 

Each region has to make a team with paddlers for each class and discipline. I was selected in the junior class in freestyle, and I won the freestyle competition. It was a good final. 

 Some pics training and competing in Sort

We’ve enjoyed some beautiful fall foliage and great water this year up and down the East Coast of the US. I’ve put up a full trip report at our website, www.rivergypsies.com, but here are a few teaser pics to get you fired up:

Andria Boofing in fall on the Upper Blackwater, WV.

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Last weekend the 1st Sick Line Extreme Race was held on the infamous Wellerbruecke part of the Oetz in Austria. It was a protest event in order to stop the plans of a local hydropower company to dam the river. 45 top paddlers from 7 nations took part in the two  races, one sprint and one slalom run. Both times were added in order to find a winner, who in the end was Claus Suchanek, 2nd Thilo Schitt and 3rd Michel Herde. In the very close result (the first three were within one second!), I was able to finish on 6th place, which I’m quite happy about, as I had to roll once at the bottom drop in my sprint run. Altogether it was a great event that hopefully will be continued to be held every year now.

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The wild west coast of New Zealand is real adventure boating. An afternoon boating is often a multi-sport experience. Hokitika local Tim Abbott and his brother Mike, hit the Styx at nice levels.

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The Raven Fork is a beautiful class V+ tributary of the Oconaluftee river located just outside of the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. Much of the run flows through the Great Smokey National Park on the border of Tenessee and North Carolina. The take out is on the reservation at the home of Emanuel, a great friend to the kayakers who come there.The scenery on the run is unbelieveable, and if you ever get the chance to look around and focus on anything other than the continuously steep pool drop rapids, you can really feel the natural beauty! REad more and check out some pictures from the run….

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Some good results all round for Team Pyranha at the British Freestyle Team Selection events for the worlds in Canada in 2007. Read on for a full report…

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Just got back from the Moose Festival weekend.  I’m actually writing this as most people are still driving back from the Moose Fest.   It was a solid weekend, starting with a great party on friday, followed by a sweet race, then another party pn saturday, and finally some more good boating on Sunday.  The Race Results and more pictures are posted inside. 

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SICK!!! After the World Cup 2, I came back home in desperate need of a rest. The solid ear infection and the fever took many weeks to finally disapear and I am slowly coming up again. So hard it is to keep a child seeted, so hard it is for me not to do much at all, and let the body heal itself. Can’t stand it. So how did I keep off the water?? (more…)

This past weekend northern New York was blessed with the some good water and some amazing weather on the Moose River. There was a huuuge posse of local boaters, at least twenty of us. The funny thing was we all decided to paddle together.

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I just got back to the states from a sweet paddling trip to Dominica. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, Dominica is a small country in the Southern Caribbean. It the Island where they filmed Priates of the Caribbean. It is roughly the size of New York City, but it has over 300 rivers and a peak elevation of 5,000 feet. Naturally, we decided to go check out the rivers and waterfalls. I went with 3 other paddlers and a writer/photographer from Outside Magazine to see what we could find.
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Well another weekend has flown by along with another event here in the UK. This time it was the British Freetstyle Championships held at Nottingham which was also the final of the 2006 Peak UK White Water Challenge Series.

Team Pyranha had a fairly srong showing in the British Champs with James Barnes making it through to the Semis of the Mens K1. Ben White came in 2nd in the squirt after an unlucky final ride in the knockout and I came in 2nd in the C1s. Richard Brooks did well but didn’t quite live up to his recent form placing just outside the cut for the semis.

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3 days on the Green followed by a power-drive to West Virginia for a Beautiful day on the Upper Blackwater.

 The day before on the Green River provided some awesome pictures. Read more to see pictures and VIDEO of the gang running the Green this past week.

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Automn is slowly sneeking into the alps, but there are still some fun rivers to
run. The last two weekends I found the time to drive down there. We were blessed
with lots of sunshine and quite high waterlevels on the Ötztaler and Venter
Ache.

After two long days of backyard fishing on the French Broad, the Tuxedo generator is fixed now and has blessed us with two long days of backyard creeking on the Green! 7-5 ALL day. Here are some pics from yesterday of a warm sunny day on the Green.

Hi y’all. I dug up an old Pyranha friend that some of you might remember–the Creek280. Remember when it was a short boat? Well, now its considered a long boat and I plan on racing the Green in it this year. I was really afraid of it at first because it seemed so long and pointy, but I was actually really surprised at how well it handled. I think it will be the perfect boat for me to race in–its very fast and stable without being so long its unweildy. I usually paddle a small Burn (which I agree with DMP on–its the best most ingenious boat ever and I love it!), but I have made the transition to the Creek280 for training, only to make the switch again in New York next week to the Ammo…Thanks Pyranha for so many excellent fun kayaks to paddle and keep me happy!

me training it up in the old Creek280 on Gorilla!
photo by Adam Hunter

Wish me luck!!!!!!

Andria

but here at the Pyranha warehouse some of us still found a way to capture some quality carnage! Out and about in our PYRANHA RANGER doing some fishin’ down behind the Kayak Depot on the French Broad river.

Our fishin’ hole down by the KAyak Depot had a sweet seal launch spot for the canoe.

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It has been a wonderful summer and fall is upon us in the southeast and I am so happy to be paddling the Burn. I absolutely love this boat and I just wanted to share with everyone what a fine creeking craft this boat is. I paddled the micro but was between sizes then went to the H2 but it just wasn’t the boat for creeking then I went on to the H3-245 where I was happy but was between the 235 and 245 and then-THE BURN. The small fits me perfectly and is so manuverable, stable and super fun on the creeks and rivers. I have introduced the small burn to many ladies that are looking for a creek boat and it has been a huge hit. The ladies finally have a creek boat that fits!!! Just wanted to say thanks to the boys at Pyranha for the BURN!~!

The Pyranha crew was invited to the new US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC for a day of checking out the new whitewater park, demoing some boats, and doing a little bit of racing. The course has three channels- a beginner channel, a freestyle channel, and a competition channel for racing, and a conveyor belt to get back to the top. While “concrete kayaking” has been going on in Europe, it’s something relatively new in the US, and the smooth channel and fast water and the idea of just riding the conveyor back to the top took a bit of getting used to. We all agreed that the course is awesome, and will only get better with some tweaking. Here are some pictures:

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