It was a very nice weekend up in Northern New York for the releases on the Raquette river and Taylorsville Moshier and Eagle sections of the Beaver. The Ammo was definitely in its element, perfect fun familiar run boat. We camped out and kayaked with my dad and a crew of good friends. Check out the video. (more…)

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.

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I am way too lazy on reporting, but before i head off to norway next friday, i try to sum up and recall what happened:





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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.

I picked up a shiny new Burn and immediately had one thing on my mind: get into some goods!

I was in Northern Oregon and with the great weather and spring melt, the obvious choice was to get on the Oregon Salmon while it was in its small window of fun flows. The water turned out to be a little low, but it was still a great day!

The Salmon River flows off the south-west face of Mount Hood and has gotten quite a bit of attention in the last few years. This year we went in with a couple reporters from the Associated Press and got a great story and a video from the day to add to the buzz about the run.

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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!

Since our last post, we have spent the past month kayaking in Colorado.

Big East Falls aka.”Stupid Falls”

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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.

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!

The Warriors and friends recently hit one of our favourite local runs the Branseth Elva. We took the opportunity to test our Ammos on the slides and technical drops, and they ripped.

Super manoeverable, easy to boof and catch the smallest eddies, which was handy at the crux of the s-bend.

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Its that time of year again! Spring has sprung, rains have swollen the rivers and there is time off work to go check out new runs. The other day we headed over to Eksingedale to try to run a river we rarely see with water. Eksingedale is an amazing valley, starting with a well know ‘Lake to Lake’ drop the river then flows over 5 ridiculously large waterfalls before flowing to what we hoped would be a runnable section! Little did we know….

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Leland and I have headed to Northern California to research more rivers for our new guidebook, The River Gypsies’ Guide to North America. The North Yuba drainage turned out to be a class III/IV paddling destination dream!

Check out our full update at RiverGypsies.com

Recoiling the big one on the Goodyear’s Bar play run.

Today I went to paddle a really nice river in the Pyrenes, the upper Esera, that flows from the highest mountain in the Pyrenes, the Aneto. It was cloudy but there was a pretty good waterlevel.

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Parties, power-drives and pioneering. Making the most of our time on the road and glad to be sitting still for a little while.

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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!

Dubbed “Pandoras” box in the guide book because of its secrecy, known as “Bakers Box” to locals. Bakers/Pandoras Box is one of the most beautiful places to kayak in Colorado.

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