Last weekend I went to the 1st Extreme Kayak in Catalonia, concretely in the Upper Noguera, near Sort (Pyrennes). The event was really cool, with prelims in saturday and finals in sunday. On sunday we raced by couples and had to do an eddy and touch something like a bell for the cows.

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 Just got back from an awesome trip to the Swiss / Italian Alps. I spent 10 days ticking some off some of the classic runs with the Fat Cat lads. The weather was great and we got loads of stuff done despite a fairly laid back schedule. We made good time on the rivers making plenty of time to soak up the local culture and for a massive night out in Milano searching for the highest concentration of super models in the world. I would definitely recommend you get yourself out there. Here are a few pictures to give you an idea.

For some reason i can’t find the ones of the lads and the super models. 

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

This weekend was the Reno River Festival. Team Pyranha was there in full force to do some Freestyle and Boatercross, and get some creeking and partying in between it all.

Dave looping the Rev in Reno

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While the British Columbia low lands have been covered with snow most of the winter and records continue to be set for low Spring temps, low elevation snowpack, ect…, Spring is finally showing its face. Weather forecasters are predicting that warmer temps will begin to prevail as La Nina weakens and as a result we will certainly have a big water season in store. Todd Gillman and myself have been out despite the lack of Spring breaking in our new Burns and also getting some cockpit time in the new Everest. From post holing into the Ashlu to racing Robe Canyon and from backyard classics to Van Island explorations, the BC boating season is in full swing. It certainly feels like Pyranha is taking over the world out here on the creeks. Everyone is either paddling the Burn (or Everest) these days or wants one!

The Everest loves BC creeks!

Todd Gillman Ucona River, BC

Bryan Smith Pamela Creek, BC

Chris Tretwold Ucona River, BC

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Hey yinz! Dave Fusilli here, bloggin a couple videos myself and the demshitz Seiler brothers have put together. The first one, Click here for video, from Cheat Fest this past weekend, along with a couple fotos from two days on the Lower Big Sandy with a bunch of folks out shreddin in Ammos and Burns. Also, a video featuring the New REV the Seiler’s put together, click here for video, from a day at the Eternity hole in Western North Carolina a few weeks back. Enjoy!
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Me and Marks dog Inca enjoying the sun

This summer I have been asked to be apart of an awesome expedition out here in Norway. As you all know Norway has become well known for its waterfalls and steep creeks. The amount of drops seems endless. well this year we will find out.

Our aim is to descend 1 mile of vertical white water in 1 month. during the summer over a period of 31 combined days. Mark Burton, Ed Cornfield and Martin Vollen and myself will huck, fall and throw ourselves off as many waterfalls as we can. We need to average 42.5 feet each daily and as a drop can only be counted once this means a lot of classic and new runs. It should make for an awesome trip and I will be reporting as we go here so you can follow us. You can also catch us on our website linked below:

http://www.onemileonemonth.com

getting used to the handling on my new Everest

we are just waiting for the melt now which will soon hit Telemark so until then I´m getting out as much as I can in my new Everest which is going to be my weapon on this expedition and from what i´ve seen so far is an awesome boat.

Enjoy your spring, I know I will!

Per

Pyranha tent set-up for a Demo with Whitewater Warehouse.

In the past 3 weeks I have been traveling around in the team van with Dave Fusilli and my brother Graham Seiler hitting up some on-water demo days.
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Cody and Mike here just back from Three Rivers, CA! We’ve got our burns in and what better a place to break ‘em in than the Kaweahs. We had a great four days lapping the various forks and also ran into Josh B out there showing the World Class kids how to get it done. Hope all is well out there and enjoy the stills!

 - Huckin Huge

 Cody hitting the boof stomp on V Drop

 Lining up another one…

  More boofing

 Mike’s first rapid in the burn - Chuck’s drop

 Feeling like driftwood

I’m just back from a month long mission in Nepal and Morocco for which I got my hands on a brand new Pyranha Everest for some multiday action. My first reaction on seeing the the massive Everest was ‘I’m never going to be able to paddle this’. At 75 kilos, I thought the Everest would be simply too big for me to enjoy.

I was wrong. With a bit of practice, and some adjustment of technique, I can attest that the Everest must be the best multiday expedition boat or big volume creek boat on the market at the moment. Larger paddlers will love the volume behind the seat, but even lighter paddlers can really appreciate this boat.

The first thing to say about the Everest is that it is not the Burn. The Burn is a classic in its own right, super manoeuverable and responsive and incredible easy edge to edge for rolling flares and boofs. My first day in the Everest on the Upper Bhote Kosi was a disaster as I was trying to paddle the Everest as if it were a Burn and as a result missing eddies, messing up lines.

But about half way down the Bhote Kosi, I began to paddle the Everest like it should be paddled; fast, hard and in a straight line. Gone are the subtle adjustments and edge control of the Burn, in favour of speed and power. The speed was incredible, charging over and through sticky ledge holes as if they didn’t exist.

On the Marsyandi (2 days) and Karnali (5 days), loaded with self support gear the Everest handled beautifully, with no noticable loss of performance (unlike the vast majority of creek boats which start handling like pigs with more than two or three days gear in them). In fact the main issue I had with the Everest was coming to terms with its tremendous speed and not overcooking moves.

The Burn will remain my boat of choice for technical, low volume creeks. But for multiday expeditions, and for big volume creeks like in Norway, the Everest is unbeatable.

Phots by Rosie Cripps and Rob Coffey

For more info on recent missions check out liveoncemedia.com

With a “knee rest”, you can sit more relaxed and get better control.

read on for fitting instructions.
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A tough boof on the Riñinahue.

Still down here in Chile making the most of low water. A group of us headed south from Pucon en route to the Futaleufu to hang out and kayak for the remainder of our stay here in Chile. On the way we ran the Salto del Nilahue and got a possible 1st descent of 2 drops on the Riñinahue near by. (more…)

After a long studying season I went to paddle a little in Galicia, Spain.

Galicia and Portugal are well known for its famous granite slides and drops, however we didn’t went there cause everything was dry, so we went to paddle the Ulla, a little river on the east. The river was really low however ther wasn’t anything else to do so… let’s get wet!

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Heres a video I put together of a group of us running the 70′ on the Middle Palguin on Dave Fusilli’s last day in Pucon. Great way to cap off an epic trip. Video

How could I forget this picture. Group shot under a waterfall pouring into a tight canyon in Argentina. Enjoy the Video

Dave hitting a big boof on the Salto de Alerces on the Rio Manso in Argentina.
The past 3 weeks our team has been traveling around Patagonia seeking out some of the best whitewater on the planet. The weather has been perfecto and the rivers are la mismo. Our group, at one point of 8, now down to 5, spent a week on the Rio Futaleufu enjoying world renowned big water class 4-5, then spending some time across the border to the east in Argentina kayaking beautiful pool drop creeking, and the occasional park n hucks have been scaring the shitz out of us! (more…)

Well after lots of rain here in the UK I decided to give my Rev a little rest and get out in my Burn for a change. As ever we had plans to try something new but the water wasn’t quite in the right place so we ended up on the Upper Tees but with plenty of water.

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While everyone is travelling around to warm climates and tropical destinations, I have been braving the winter up here in New York’s Adirondack moiuntains. We started off with a ton of snow in December and the early part of January. Last week’s warm temps and rain opened up some January paddling for those that were tough enough to handle the cold.

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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

Dave Fusilli hucking the STOUT 70 on the Middle Palguin
We have been in Chile for a little over two weeks. We have done some amazing runs, and some of the best kayaking in one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever been. Pucon has been our main base, but with the water just about run out here we are getting ready to head south to the infamous Rio Futaleufu. Check out a video of the rivers and waterfalls we’ve run in and around Pucon. (more…)