Date registered: January 3, 2012
Mar
02
After three month of kayaking in Chile I am finally back home. I am glad I made it back before the earthquake and feel really sorry for all the aggrieved people. I must admit three month of paddling was exactly what I needed, day after day with nothing else to do apart from kayaking. Isn’t …
Dec
30
Here are some impressions of my time in Chile. Up to know I travelled from Santiago down to Pucon, and had an awesome time on the chilean rivers with friends out of Germany. It was also a great pleasure to meet and join Adria, Leland and Jeff on the Rio Claro. We did a lot …
May
25
After a year full of books, writing, working and finally finishing my diploma in psychology, I jumped back into the real kayaking world. I know what I missed so much . I work now as a freelancer, and most of this working time is outside in the boat or in the mountains. Just two weeks …
Jul
03
After a playboating session in the washing mashine (Augsburg) friday night, Birgit and I drove into the alps in order to run the Lech Gorge. I was quite exited, as it was my first time trying out the Ammo S and then two girls alone on difficult whitewater is always something special for me. We …
May
29
With plenty of sunshine – quite untypical for Lofer – and a nice water level, the second Extreme Race in Lofer, Austria took part last weekend. Spontaneously I decided to go there and was quite surprised, when I realized that I was the only girl competing. There was a single race for qualification first, followed …
May
17
Three days of competition not just in kayak, but as well in other sports like mountain running, downhill biking and bouldering and a big party made this years TEVA Extreme Mountain Games to a really entertaining event. Friday morning it started out with a team race on the Egua followed by an individual downriver race. …
May
17
Two weeks ago I went to Slovenia in order to teach people to become a VDKS (Association of German canoe schooling) kayak instructor. As the timetable for this type of course is usually quite full, Marcus, Lothar and I decided to do a good morning run on the big gorge of the Soca, getting up …
Apr
26
What can you do, if you had to write your thesis, but really wanted to go out and paddle?! Just do both! After spending hours in the copyshop, I went to France, visited my twin sister, studied during the day and went playboating on Hawai sur Rhone in the evening. What a faszinating wave! After …
Oct
08
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.
