It’s raining and snowing so hard here in Spain during all this week, so I went paddling to Cantabria, in the north of Spain. I paddled two rivers, the Calera and the Gandara, which has really cool slides.

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The new Speeder has been out for a few weeks now, but due to the high water we’ve had down here in the south i’ve not really had the chance to give it a good play.  Today I awoke to lower water levels and snow! so it seemed a good idea to go for a spin.  The Speeder has primarily been designed for fast  down river touring, but it can do so much more.  This is a really good fun boat, super fast but so easy to control, fitted out with full connect 30, so it mega comfy too! If you need a boat to get out and enjoy any river in any water condition and do any thing.  The Speeder could well be the one for you….     

This is a post from my last day in Chile. Just before taking my plane in the night I went to the Nilahue river with some friends, a good river near Pucon. The Nilahue river is a little flat, but there’s a really nice drop. Last year the drop changed a lot, from a double drop to a nice slide.

Photo from the double drop at low water.
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The winter is gone and I’m back home in Sort in the middle of the Pyrennes, where luckily it’s snowing so hard, so I hope the rivers wil be pretty good in a few days.

Here some pics from this winter in the south hemipshere.

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Every year Leeds University do a cracking job of gathering 500 students from all over the UK, into a field in Nottingham to do what students do best…

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On a Mission! – South Wales – Melte River – flood conditions!

After making a vague plan Saturday night, the boats where loaded and we were on our way to wet Wales in search of water! We suspected there may be water around, but at the take out of the Melte river the flows were not that high. It was pishing down and motivation took some time to pick up. I pulled an Ammo from my quiver, thinking this would be a mellow read a run, but on the drive up there was evidence to suggest this could turn into quite a mission!

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(Myself on the 2nd falls of the Santo Domingo) photo Derik Beitler
Paddling out of the country is always an adventure, and this trip was no exception. Chiapas has a reputation for being a little dangerous and we found out why.

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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.
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Sorry for the delay – we’ve been super busy with marketing our yoga products and putting together a fly fishing guidebook. It’s not all fun and games – we have to make money so that we can keep on boating and traveling!

Part 3 of the trip report contains fun river running and playboating action in the Recoil and Ammo.

Part 4 has some remote wilderness boating back in our Burns.

Click the link to read the full trip report: www.RiverGypsies.com

Mexican raft guide Vincente enjoying surfing the Recoil.

Big grins surfin the Ammo on the Actopan.

Leland wilderness boating on the Tatempa section of the Rio Bobos.

With most of the South of England under water we thought we’d try and find some water up in the North East. Originally we’d planned to try and get a run on the River Swale with it’s large ish drops and adrenaline pumping ride. Unfortunately the levels dropped too much so we ended up on the classic run that is the High Force to Low Force section of the River Tees.

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We went to scout a big waterfall, big there wasn’t enough water, so the entry was so hard with two hard possible lines. After a long scouting of the waterfall from all places we decided to don’t run it, so we left and drove to a next river with a really nice little drop.

 Nice sunset… 

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This morning we have gone to have some fun running this watefall in the Palguin river. The palguin river is a really nice run near to Pucon, Chile, where I’ve been paddling all this winter with my BURN.

Now it’s time to get ready to come back to the north hemisphere for another good season of paddling.

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Here are some pictures from Deckers Creek today. It was a little chilly so we didnt take too many.

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