http://www.teampyranha.com/2006/11/16/alternatives-to-snow/ The blog from the International Pyranha team of kayakers. All about their kayaking exploits. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:28:36 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.teampyranha.com/2006/11/16/alternatives-to-snow/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Team Pyranha Blog » Black forest weekend by Thomas Rogenmoser in Paddler Lifestyle Articles Creeking Articles Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:27:18 +0000 http://www.teampyranha.com/creeking-articles/toro/alternatives-to-snow/#comment-2 [...] Since my last post, some kind of winter did come by, we had a few good days in the snow, but i never stopped dreaming of paddling. This weekend was rainy and warm again, so i called up two friends, ron and luc, and quickly we decided to head to marco schlink in freiburg, and go paddle in the black forest, where rivers generally only get water in wintertime. I was specially excited, because it would be my first time in my AMMO S. Friday morning we paddled the upper and middle Alb, a very nice gorge in pool-drop style. In the afternoon, we paddled the lower Vera at 1m, a very fast, ever-white no-eddy non-stop roadside-run, which tends to look more like fun than hard paddling. So it was only after the take-out that ron and luc understood why i talked them out of running the harder upper part, called parkinglot-run. [...] [...] Since my last post, some kind of winter did come by, we had a few good days in the snow, but i never stopped dreaming of paddling. This weekend was rainy and warm again, so i called up two friends, ron and luc, and quickly we decided to head to marco schlink in freiburg, and go paddle in the black forest, where rivers generally only get water in wintertime. I was specially excited, because it would be my first time in my AMMO S. Friday morning we paddled the upper and middle Alb, a very nice gorge in pool-drop style. In the afternoon, we paddled the lower Vera at 1m, a very fast, ever-white no-eddy non-stop roadside-run, which tends to look more like fun than hard paddling. So it was only after the take-out that ron and luc understood why i talked them out of running the harder upper part, called parkinglot-run. [...]

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