Photo – Craig Kleckner doing another one of his ridiculous back PanAms at Inner City Wave on the Black River

The month of August has been a mix of summer road trip recovery and northeast playboating.  Here’s a lil bloggings of Inner City Wave on the Black, low level Ottawa, and a visit to Rochester’s Lock 32.

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 Quebec is known for two things.  Poutine and Water.  On a recent trip to the eastern reaches of this candian province 9 kayakers found both to be spectacular.  The Romaine river provided us with 6 days of unbeievable kayaking in a vast setting that is threatened by a massive hydro power project. 

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With what seemed like a thousand taxis touting for our business, arrival into Kathmandu airport truly signified the start of the adventure. Having been to a few far flung destinations dragging my kayak along previously, it was music to my ears.

This March myself, Sam Clegg and Rich Kemble headed out to Nepal, with the aim of exploring the incredible culture, people and mountains that it has to offer. Following certain events, it was decided that in some way we wanted to contribute something towards the Mountain Rescue services; in our case the local Ogwen Valley team. We intended to raise awareness for the role that the team undertakes and contribute towards much needed funds for potentially lifesaving equipment within their Swiftwater Rescue services. The result was that we donated almost four-hundred pounds in funding and equipment to OVMRT.

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For me, this past summer was a lot different than the ones in the past.  After a super savage snowboard wipe out 8 and a half months ago, and an epic month touring around Colorado on the Pyranah van, I spent most of my time in Northwest Montana living at home with the fam.  My time spent there consisted mainly of fishing, tubing, countless hours of physical therapy and hardly any kayaking.  I recently  made the trek back down to Gunnison CO for my last semester of school and took a highly anticipated trip to the M-Wave to see how the new Molan performed on a big, fast wave.  After hearing good things about the Molan I was fired up to take it out on a fast action glassy wave.  I was blown away at how fast and loose the boat is considering its short length and how comfortable I felt paddling it.  Here is a short video of my first day paddling the Molan on the M-wave:

http://www.vimeo.com/14535986

Myself, Jake Holland and Will Hatt have now been in Thailand for 12 days searching out some whitewater fun.

Arriving in Bangkok we got our boats on the train and took the bus to Chiang Mai (It turned out to be the queen’s birthday so no seats for us on the train!) Here we sorted ourselves a truck and hooked up with a local rafting company, Siam River Adventures, for a run down the Mae Taeng. Normally the whole 10km section is rafted with a steeper middle section providing some class 4 thrills for the clients… Lots of rain meant our first warm up river of the trip was at a slightly higher level with the rafts portaging the middle section. We decided to paddle it.

Since this exciting introduction to Thai kayaking we have been searching the area around Chiang Mai for more drops and sections of rivers. The next stage was a 6 hour drive east to Nan where we paddled the Tard Luang, hiking into the top slide in the picture below, then paddling the rest of the river. There were some sweet rapids, drops and slides including a chunky double drop we portaged but definitely has potential…

Check out our blog for loads more photos and tales of the adventures so far!

Stoked to finally check out what the Upper Upper East Fork Kaweah had to offer.  Nathan Hunkapiler, Macy Burnham & Chris Tulley 1’st D’ed a steep portion of the Upper Upper 2 years ago that uncovered some goods, but required the team to hike out on day two due to time constraints.  This left the trio amped on the Upper Upper & wondering what the “middle” Upper Upper had to offer, as there was 6 miles unaccounted for.  Joining up with the original team +1, Cully Thomas – we dropped into Upper Upper to complete the 1st Descent.  After a quick bushwack entrance to the gorge a mile downstream of where they originally hiked out, we kicked off the trip with some wooded drops and slides, and one crux pinch drop that had a cool, must make wall move.  Upon arriving to the confluence of Horse Creek, we all couldn’t pass up the opportunity to camp at one of the coolest camp spots in the Kaweah Drainage!  Horse Creek dropped steeply into the Upper Upper East Fork and contained numerous slides and one nice big fall (*shallow landing*).  We hiked up and did multiple laps on it and laid down to sleep, only to be woken at 5am by rain.  Putting on the rising East Fork super early, we finished out the Upper Upper and dropped into the “Upper EF”…whew lots of upper stretches (as the EF continues to prove that it contains some of the best, most continuous whitewater anywhere).  The Upper EF was a real treat and had some surprising gorges and drops that had the whole team stoked and feeling it.  Here are some pix.  - video soon.

1st D of Horsecock Falls, Horse Creek California.  Chris Tulley photo

Gorgeous lighting for a late afternoon boof. Culley Thomas photo

A stout drop on the Upper EF Kaweah.  Chris Tulley photo

Macy named this one Gorneria – “if ya dropped into thar u’ed be a goner son”

Parting shot – Horse Creek and Upper Upper EF confluence.  Cully Thomas photo

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Photo by: Nicole Mansfield

Well we made it to British Columbia. Here we found a very fast long slide, a short but, super fun creek, and spent some time at the mighty Skookumchuck narrows.  demshitz made a video of course!!   Click right here

Photo: Ed Moorehead browning Fawlersville

Last weekend we headed up to Mountainman Outdoor Supply Co. in Old Forge, NY for a low water Moose River Paddle Session followed by BBQing and kayak movie watching.  Thanks to Pyranha Team’s Chris Morelli for teaming up with Mountain Man to organize this event.

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Hi folks!

Some days ago we finished our trip to Siberia. 4 weeks full of big rivers and sick kayaking.

Check out some photos here >>>

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Photo by: Nicole Mansfield

Demshitz goes on a wonderful trip to Washington state. Along the way we ended up running the Little White Salmon and it’s next door neighbor the Green Truss. Also, have you heard of Hamma Hamma falls. Well my friends it is a stout for sure. We ended up at a pretty nice party as well..enjoy!

Video Click here!

In May this year Ali Marshall and Max Keinwasser completed the first spring run of the Homathko river in BC.

This is one of the best multidays in the world as you journey though untouched wilderness and and class 5 canyons for 4 days.  When you reach the sea you get picked up by a float plane and flown back to your car.

This area is under threat by power companies,  it is hugely important area for salmon and grizzly bears etc , please show your support by researching the Bute Inlet project and doing all you can to help this incredable wilderness.

This year we resarected the great Callaghan race in BC.

The medium water levels made for the the perfect race course.

With a great turn out the race went smoothly, with only a little carnage.  A fun evening followed.

A large reason for bringing back this fantastic event to to bring awarness to IPPs hydro project that threaten rivers such as the Callaghan.

The event will be bigger and better next year so please turn up.

Liquid lore as a great blog report about it    http://www.liquidlore.blogspot.com/

Cheers

Ali

Bedford River Festival occurs every 2 years. It is a huge event, apparently the third biggest outdoor event in britain. I had a great time and met some awesome people/ paddlers.

Click here to see video

I’ve got a couple new videos in the works, but in the course of making them there was some pretty good footage left over that I didn’t use.  I hated to not use some of it, so I put together this little video with all the extra stuff.  Its just compiled from some filming this past winter/spring on the Tellico, Johnnies and Little River Canyon.  Enjoy!

Winter B-Roll from Adam Goshorn on Vimeo.

Until Next Time…

-adam

photos, videos, and reports of an epic creek begin floating out of Montana’s Crazy Mountains. I first ran Big Timber in 2002 on an epic trip with Gordon Dalton, Josh Sandage, and Harris Haynie, and it immediately earned a place on my list of favorite creeks and places to go back to. After freestyle team trials this year in Missoula, I finally got the chance to head back there. We had a long, great day on the river, and I shot a lot of head cam footage.  Here’s the virtual tour:

Big Timber POV video

it was one of this day, when you feel lucky to be there.

Blue sky and sunshine in a summer day.

That’s Pyrenees, of course !

Gave de Cauteret – Eric Deguil et Maxime Mitaut from maxime mitaut on Vimeo.

Thank you Stephanie for this sweet vidéo.

Canyon du LLech from stephanie augras on Vimeo.

Llech canyon, see you next year with level water more “kayaker”.

Level water is going down in Pyrenees. Perfect time to run canyons.

Fafa (Fabrice Pouyeto) in the first double slide.

I agree this one was a little bit dry, but so fun !

Fafa in on of the 16 drops runable by kayakers in Llech canyon.

Me in the hardest drop called “Eject”. After 6 meters slide on rock, your’e eject 6 meters above the pool.

All without scout.

Funny time in one of the last slide. Everybody want to go more high in two bends. Water throwned on rock were a good judge !

Llech canyon distance: 650 m. High: 165m. Time inside: 7 hours.

Next trip: Nuria canyon. Shorter but more deep !

Video is coming…

Cheers,

Eric

This year on the Potomac was a fun and awesome time!!  Between the Rodeo competition which I volunteered at the rodeo as a judge (:

Then we also had the boater cross which I ended up getting 5th overall out of 19 men and women, and  1st in womens.

Cant wait till next year!!!!!

We have just returned to Petroplavosk, the capital of Kamchatka after completing our second source to sea first decent of the Karimsky River to the North.

This was an absolutely incredible trip. We put in next to an active volcano that was errupting every 5 minutes and found hot springs at the rivers edge. We had seen this river on the flight into our first source to sea on the Semalyichik and knew we would have several solid days of whitewater. The upper section consisted of long stretches of flatwater punctuated by giant waterfalls and slides and as we approached the ocean we found amazing class 4 read and run whitewater.

Simply put, it was as perfect as exploratory trips come. The logistics here have been as exciting as the rivers we have paddled. This trip was consisted of taking a giant Russian MI8 heli to the put-in and then using a sailboat to make the 20 hour journey back to the capital.

To have completed two incredible source to sea descents in just under two weeks, we are feeling tremendously successful. It is hard to convey how wild this place truly is. Waiting on the beach for our sailboat we combed the beach next to countless brown bear and wolf tracks. There have been no signs of humans on these rivers, just the wildlife that calls Kamchatka home. While we have been excited about the pure exploration of these rivers we have also begun collecting hydrological data that the kayaks are lending themselves to very well too. From here we will transition into exploring rivers that are prime salmon and trout habitat.- Bryan Smith

More info on National Geographic Blog http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/blogwild/2010/07/kamchatka-project-modernday-ex.html#more

And the here http://www.kamchatkaproject.org/

Words and Images supplied by Bryan Smith