It’s been a while since I’ve been on here!

With last season in the UK being so utterly rubbish I’ve been grabbing boating sessions as and when I can. Which is exactly why Rich Taylor, Myself and some friends decided to head for some summer creeking action in Norway.

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Just returned from a kayakers ultimate smash and grab holiday. We unfortunately arrived to late to take part in the Sjoa festival but it looked to be a great success and one to look out for next year. With only 7 days we maximised our water time and with everything high it wasn’t hard to find rivers, just difficult to pick from the number of outstanding sections in the Sjoa area. The weather was typically wet but the Sjoa kayak camp provided excellent shelter. With budget airlines providing cheap flights all over Europe I can see me becoming a fan of smash and grab holidaying.

DEMSHITZ MADE 3 – Dave Space- the final episode of Demshitz MADE. Will he surf Skook? Find out in this final episode of DEMSHITZ MADE 3. 

For those of you who don’t know Demshitz Made- check out the first two episodes of Demshitz MADE.
DEMSHITZ MADE EP1
DEMSHITZ MADE EP2
DEMSHITZ MADE EP3
watch the whole thing!!! you’ll love it!

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This video is a mix of Callagan, Cheakamus, Rogers Creek and the Skookumchuck Rapids.  Some good beats, blunts, and waterfalls, hope you like it.

This week we drove south to the Portland area.  The first stop was Alder Creek kayaks. This was our next  video showing and we ended having a great turn out for the movie.  Hood River was our next stop.  On Saturday, we met at the Kayak Shed with a few locals from the area to paddle the Middle White Salmon.  It was a good paddle with some good folks.  Thanks for coming.  Here are some photos…… (more…)

For the month of June and a little of July, I was in Canada for the Keener Class.  I went for three weeks and was the only Keener girl there and along with that I was one of the few with Pyranha boats.  :)  At the start of the class I got to see the Ottawa at 15 with Bus Eater and at the end I saw the Ottawa at around 1.  I loved surfing left side Phills and right side horseshoe.  We learned how to tie knots and how to repel.  We also had a photo and video class and I am currently working on making a video of it so when I get I will post it so everyone can see the mighty Ottawa!!!  =D

But I do have some photos of me on the Ottawa and the group that picked me up…….

This is at Mc Coys Chute where I attempted to do the "easier" line.

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Boofing Fuzzy Bunny – one of Vallecito’s classic drops. Paddler: Chris Menges. Photo: Kevin Kuuskvere.

I have always had an excuse for not making it to Vallecito during its season even though I only live 4 hours away and I’ve been paddling clas V in Colorado for the past 6 years. It’s too far. There is good stuff running closer. The crew is going elsewhere. We have no guide. Let’s run Lime again….and many other lame excuses. After finally getting on Vallecito this season, I definitely have to concur that it is in fact the most quality mile of boating in the state. Follow the link to the rest of the story for more pictures…

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Bex leading the way on the Soca

It’s been a few weeks since Bex and I packed up the van and left the rivers of the French Alps, and it’s been a busy few weeks.  Starting with a week of work and play in Slovenia, we met up with Chris and Tom at the Soca and had a fantastic time coaching during the days with a  great group and getting a few cheeky runs in on the Trnovo to Kobarid section in the evening.   (more…)

With the end of the school year, I found myself with a couple of mid week days free so a plan was hatched with fellow Pyranha Team paddler Dave Fairweather to sample a few rivers in the North Alps. After flying into a small airport in the south of Germany, Dave and Bex picked me up and we made the drive over to Upper Bavaria.

The plan was to do the 4 classic runs in the area, nearly 40 km of grade 3 (with a few harder rapids) and a lot of driving in between rivers, in one day. First up was the Rissbach, a grade 3 river with two grade 4 rapids.

Dave on the pre breakfast run on the Rissbach (Photo Bex Pipe)

Next up was the wonderful Upper Isar, which you can only access by Taxi. This provided a nice scenic paddle, that consisted of pleasant and completely straight forward low volume grade 3.

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The first week of may, i was in Cap Vert to run …a volcano !

It’s not a joke. Since two years me and my friends organize this adventure.

My first goal was to down it with the snowboard slalom french champion, Camille De faucompret. A fucking goor ride! And the second, brake a speed record.Unfortunatly, after tree attent. My REV was craked !

- 60km/h, not very fast but so dangerous.

To stop my run, after tree attent, i had only one solution to stop my speed. In rock place…

70 m in this rocks was the last solution. You know why the boat is dead…

A film is coming. The teaser is here.

Volcano Ride – The Teaser from stephanie augras on Vimeo.

See you!

TUG BOAT ACCIDENT- DEMSHITZ SAVES THE DAY!
After a few days of great surfing at Skookumchuck Narrows in Egmont BC, Demshitz witnessed a tug boat accident at the wave during slack tide. Team paddler Dave Fusilli paddled out in his REV to attempt to save a man trapped in the tug. Everyone was OK and the tug was pulled to safety before the rapids of Skookumchuck swallowed up the wreckage. Demshitz are heros!

Some time ago we have good water levels and perfect weather in Piemont. It was great to paddle the upper Sermenza, Gronda and Egua. (kayaker: Armin Auer, Stockinger Andreas, Machacek Robert, Kristin Schernthaner, www.paddeln.at) (more…)

Dave Space fired up to run his first waterfall!

Check out Episode 1 of Demshitz Made if you haven’t already…then watch Episode 2. Demshitz Made!!!

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This past weekend was Potomac Fest- the mid-summer classic, hot weather, humidity, water so warm it’s not refreshing at all, slimy, slippery rocks, and long days of all sorts or competitions.  Despite all that, Po fest remains popular, with people turning out for the Great Falls Race, squirtboat, freestyle, old school wave surfing, boatercross….. This year was a tad cooler and less than years past, and the getting splashed with water was actually a bit refreshing.

Boofing off the classic “Spout” drop during the Great Falls Race.

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Saturday afternoon before the Pau slalom World Cup. 42 paddlers runned the first boardercross in the new race course.  Abys canoe shop equipped most of the starters with Zone’s to help making the event a success. After a unlucky first run, i took the micro to meet a lot of spectators ( 500 ?) during the show !

In 1/4 finale, Maxime Mitaut in fight with Pierrepaolo Ferrazzi win his key for the next run !

Renaud Doby win the sweet Zone, behind Hugo Caihol ( French junior kayak team ) and Thomas Bersinger who was third in world slalom race in Prague the last week.

The girl final run…the landing wasn’t easy. Victory for Nouria Newman, like each run. Second and third Pauline Guiet and Caroline Loir. Now we are looking forward more races in Pau . See you in september !

Click to view webisode 1 – The making of Haymaker

HH FILMS is proud to announce our next full length film, HAYMAKER ! This smash hit film will be released world-wide in 2010, featuring an array of Pyranha kayaks!  Ammo, Burns, Karnalis and Everests…

For now, follow the behind the scenes footage of The Making of HAYMAKER. These webisodes will air ’semi-weekly’ on HUCKIN HUGE.COM ! Check out the first episode as we follow the crew and athletes to Summit Creek, Washington for the first descent of a massive falls!

Clover Creek is a small, steep, high sierra creek near treeline in Sequoia National Park, feeding the Kaweah. Not only are the drops super fun, the scenery is spectacular and you get to drive past some of the largest trees on earth. A visit to this zone gets you in the promiscuity of many other ultra classic runs. We were on Clover in mid April, 2009. Check out the photos posted…

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Last Saturday the first invitational boatercross race at the Eiskanal took place here in Augsburg as part of the slalom worldcup program. Organized by Arnd Schaeftlein and Jakobus Stenglein, incredible paddlers like Mike Dawson from NZ, Dejan Kralj (SLO) and Fabian Doerfler (GER) took part and fought for the 1st prize: a sweet mountainbike! In the end, it was taken home by slalom local Hannes Aigner, who had a stunning final. I myself couldn’t start due to my injury, but took the job of the starter and enjoyed watching the race – just like 1000 (!) other spectators. Wolfgang from Kanu Treff equipped most of the starters with Karnali’s and Burn’s to help making the event a success, which in the end definitely was the case. Now we’re looking forward to more of these races here at the Eiskanal! Here are a couple of shots.

This weekend myself and the rest of those Demshitz made our way to Aquasports in Redmond Washington to paddle with the locals and premiere the movie.  The Skykomish was our river destination for the afternoon.  We enjoyed stout mountain peaks and crystal clear waters.  The run featured about 5 miles of class three with one stout called boulder drop.  After a hot day in the sun, we headed back to Redmond to watch Demshitz the movie, and have a few cold ones.  Thanks much to Charles at Aquasports for bringing it all together for us.  Thanks to his help there was a great showing on the river and everyone had a great time at the shop that evening.  We soon head to Canada….skookumchuck awaits us.  All we must do is make it across the border   Wish us luck.

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The Verzasca River, in Switzerland, is very good.  Tom & I caught it whilst having a few days off working in France & Slovenia and it was great!

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