Team Pyranha Blog

Canyon Creeks

Leland — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:04:56 +0000

We recently got to hit the Canyon Creek in Oregon and the Canyon Creek in Washington, as well as run some fun drops on the East Fork Lewis. You can check out the full report at www.RiverGypsies.com.

Here are a couple of nice pictures taken by Trip Kinney on Canyon Creek, Washington:

Andria on a nice ledge.

Leland on the falls.

West Virginia / Cheat Fest trip report.

Leland — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:00:56 +0000

Hi all!

We are frantically packing to leave for the West today, but have stuck a quick report that Andria wrote about last week up on our website.

Go to www.RiverGypsies.com for the full report.

Andria styling Wonder Falls
Photo by Leland

Back from Mexico Creeking Clinics

Leland — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:46:22 +0000

In December, we headed down to Mexico to teach creeking for two weeks at the Huasteca Secreta resorts in San Luis Potosi state. Here are a couple of pics from two of the rivers - the Ojo Frio and the Cascadas Micos. All of our students had a great time paddling the fleet of Pyranha boats that we brought down there - Burns, Everests, and Ammos.

To view the full report and all of the photos, go to RiverGypsies.com.

Dooley Tombras on the Ojo Frio
Photo by Leland

1 Small Burn, 1 Medium, 2 Larges, and an Everest!
left to right: Brian Plant, Dan Thomas, Tracy Hancock, Tom Wittekind, Tobin Doyle
Photo by Leland

BC trip report

Leland — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:27:58 +0000

Our final destination this summer was BC for some creeking in our favorite area to vacation for boating. Here are some shots from BC this summer, and you can read the full report at www.RiverGypsies.com.

Andria running the Nozzle on the Nahatlatch.

Jared airing out the Recoil at Skook.

Leland on Callaghan Creek.
Photo by Bo Wallace.

More Washington Action

Leland — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:03:51 +0000

Our latest update from Washington includes the classic Little White Salmon and Top Tye Rivers, as well as some great river running on the White Salmon and the Cispus.

Enjoy these two Top Tye shots, or feel free to check out the whole report at www.RiverGypsies.com

Leland at Monkey Cage on the Top Tye.
photo by John Fuqua.

Andria at Box Drop on the Top Tye.

Creekin’ in Washington

Leland — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:36:14 +0000

We’ve made our way up to Washington to check out what the Pacific Northwest has to offer. What we’ve found is a TON of great paddling. Here are a couple of teaser photos - you can see the full report at RiverGypsies.com.

Leland on the Little
Wenatchee.

Andria on the Cooper.

Hope everybody’s staying wet out there!

California Granite!

Leland — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:38:41 +0000

Check out our latest pics from SuperDink and South Silver in California - this is a lot of Granite!!

You can check out the full trip report and all of the photos at www.RiverGypsies.com.

Leland on SuperDink.

Andria runs Skyscraper on South Silver.

Recoiling in California

Leland — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:10:09 +0000

We recently got to do most of the North Fork of the American River here in California - Including the legendary Generation and Giant Gap sections and some excellent river play in our Recoils on the Chamberlain Falls Section.

Here are a couple of teaser photos of the play - you can read a full report on all of the sections - including the new freestyle trick I invented - at RiverGypsies.com.

Have fun out there!

a California low water year ain’t so bad.

Leland — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:32:36 +0000

We’ve hit California to see what all we can get in this record low snowpack year - and the answer is you can still get a lot of paddling in out here!

You can view our full update at www.RiverGypsies.com.

Here are some teaser photos for you:

Andria Recoiling on the Kaweah.

Leland running Zero to Sixty, Hospital Rock section of the Middle Kaweah.

More to come soon!

More Mexico - Santa Maria and Alseseca

Leland — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:26:41 +0000

Here’s a couple more pics from Mexico - this time from the Santa Maria and Alseseca roadside run. You can read our full trip report on the Alseseca and the Cascada de Tamul section on the Santa Maria at www.RiverGypsies.com.

Andria B. and Emily Mahowald at Cascada de Tamul.
Photo by Leland.

Leland on an Alseseca tributary.
Photo by Ben Edson / Downstreamphoto.com.

Leland

A little bit of Mexico Action.

Leland — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:39:50 +0000

We’re recently back from a few weeks in Mexico researching for our new North American guidebook. It was a great opportunity to take a break from winter and play around in the Recoil and the Ammo while leaving the neck gaskets behind!

The first report has the Cascadas Micos - a super-fun class III run full of travertine slides and drops. The water was warm, and you could take your playboat! I had a great time Recoiling it. Here’s a cool pic from the Micos. You can link over to Rivergypsies.com to see the full trip report from the Micos and some slightly heavier creeking action on the Salto.

Leland and Andria doing the Recoil/Ammo tandem slide on the Cascadas Micos.
Photo by Ben Edson / Downstreamphoto.com.

Have fun out there and stay warm!

Leland

Fall Color Creekin’

Leland — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:07:06 +0000

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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Fun in the Recoil!

Leland — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:45:54 +0000

Hi all-

Had a chance to paddle the new Recoil (medium) for a couple of days over the last few weeks - on the Upper Gauley and Upper Yough - and have put together a review with some photos. Bottom line is, this is a GREAT new boat! Enjoy the teaser pics here, and follow the link to the full review:

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A few pics from this year so far…

Leland — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:56:36 +0000

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!!!!