Labor Day Monday saw the first ever Raquette River Race.  For years paddlers have fantasized about how sweet a race on this northern gem would be.  It wasn’t until the five 2 nine crew stepped up that it actually happened.  When six Americans and and six Canadians showed up, we realized we had a real international barn burner on our hands. 

The Stone Valley section of the Raquette River located waaaay upstate New York has quickly been gaining notariety as one of the East’s most difficult recreational whitewater releases.  The river drops a solid 200 feet in a little under a mile cascading over 7 distinct rapids.

A solid American team of speedsters showed up with names like Geoff Calhoun, Adam Herzog, and Clay Wright.  The Canadian crew from Ottowa led by Phillip Kompass, Geoff Boyd, Mike Kobzik, and Mike McKay knew exactly what they were up against. 

In the end it was sheer domination by the Americans.  Clay came in with the best time,  soon followed by Geoff Calhoun, and myself to round out the U.S. sweep of the podium.

Everyone agreed the Raquette is a bad-ass river to hold a race on, and the five 2 nine guys pulled it off with style.  be sure to check out www.five2nine.ca for some photos and footage of all the action.

Having entered the sport after the introduction of edges and flatter hulls, the majority of the boats that I have owned have had simi-planing hulls, including most of the creekers. Perhaps it is because of my introduction to planing hulls early in my paddling progression or perhaps it is just my paddling style, but I have almost always preferred boats with an edge I can use for ferrying, staying on line, and snapping into and out of eddies. The original Burn series was the natural progression from its predecessors (the H2 and H3) and certainly fulfilled my desires for snappy handling. As to be expected, the new 2010 Burn furthers the progression towards perfection with noticeable design changes, but none that are radically different from the original series.

I never like to review a boat until I have really spent a lot of time in it and gotten to use it in a variety of situations. I paddled the 2010 Large Burn a TON in the last 6 months (80+ river days) and I have had it in almost every type of whitewater. I spent lots of time on low volume creeks like North Carolina’s Green River and Johnnies Creek here in Alabama. I have also been able to paddle it quite a bit on the pushy, higher-volume creek style that characterizes Little River Canyon (AL) at a healthy flow. In June I was able to get a great feel for the Burn in a high volume river running environment when I spent 14 days paddling it down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. I feel that I have thoroughly gotten to know the new Burn design over the past 6 months and can now provide an informed opinion of its features and the differences from the previous design (which I also paddled extensively).

Read the rest of this entry >>

Team Pyranha at Inner City Strife.

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.

After hanging out with the Campbell’s for a couple of days on the Black River surfing Hole Brothers and watching the water level steadily decrease, Dave and I headed up to the Ottawa for some classic fun.  We heard it was -3.5 and Garb was out, but we hoped our luck would change and the river would suddenly spike.  It didn’t.  It got lower.  But, hanging out at the Ottawa is always a good time and there were still a multiple of surf options.

Here’s Matt Hamilton during a PushButton night session.

Surfing Left Side McCoy’s….the hungry beaver?

After some good days on the Ottawa, we headed back home.  While hanging out in Buffalo, I heard that it had been raining upstate and the Black had gone up 10,000 cfs since I had been there last…. meaning Inner City was in.  I debated whether it was worth driving the 3.5 hours back up for and after 3 long days of awesome and tiring surfing, concluded that it is TOTALLY worth it.  It’s rare to find a sweet wave with eddy access and no lines! Next time even I won’t even think twice about driving there from twice the distance.

Craig doing an assortment of BROWN tricks

Jeremy Laucks did thousands of stout clean BROWNS

After hanging out a couple of more days in Buffalo, Dave and I headed to Rochester for an event at Rochester’s Lock 32.  A lot of people came by the whitewater course to try out Molans and Burns.  Thanks to Danny and Paul for organizing the event and giving free whitewater clinics throughout the day.   If you’re in the area you should check it out http://www.geneseewaterways.org/kayaking.htm Lock 32 is a perfect place for people of all abilities and it was great to see lots of people of all ages and skill levels out there practicing their ferries, rolls, wet exits, carthweels, and loops.

 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. 

After finishing an Xterra race in Lake Placid we began the through-the-night 20 hour slog to Havre-St. Pierre to meet our float plane.  With the whole crew assembled and packed, we were delicately placed in the wilderness about 120 miles noth of the St. Lawrence  on the Romaine River. 

 We watched our float plane climb out of sight, slipped into the water, started on our journey down the river.  The first day was a bit of a warm-up just getting down to our first camp.

 The next few days went by like a blur.  There were amazing rapids, perfect campsites, and incredible scenery to keep us entertained during the flatwater sections.

On day 4 we were met face to face with the harsh reality that the Romaine River is facing.  Hydro-Quebec has begun a massive hydro-power project on the Romaine and plans to begin diverting sections of the river by 2013. 

From this point on the river felt very big.  Huge volume rapds were separated by huge volumes of flatwater.  We took our time down in this section making to sure to appreciate every minute. 

On our final day we spent some time checking out the Grande Chute, and did battle with the bog to avoid an extra day of pure flatwater. 

We clawed our way through the bog, hitch hiked back to the cars, and started the long journey home.  It was a great adventure.  I’d go back today if I could. 

It’s important to mention that this trip would not have been possible without the information provided by members of previous trips down the Romaine.  Big thanks go out to Fred Corielle, Boyce Greer, and Trip Kinney for steering us in the right direction. 

check out www.five2nine.ca for some videos coming soon.

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.

Prior to heading out we had diverse aspirations, though eventually we planned on seeking out the classics and heading further up the traditional sections to take advantage of lower water conditions in the upper gorges. In three weeks – following a brief warm-up on the Trisuli – we ticked off the Modi Khola (whose tight, technical nature made it seem surprisingly full on in places with stacked up drops), Kali Gandaki (a bigger volume cruise through scenic gorges with bigger rapids further up, marred only by the dam backing up the river), Marsyangdi (a powerful medium volume run which never slowed up, we only wished it was longer), Bhote Kosi (true highlight of the trip, down from Tatopani) and the Rapti (mind out for the crocs!) The variety the country offered and the surprises which greeted us around each corner kept us on our toes. On one occasion, a local paddler Maila joined us to explore some of the upper gorges on the Bhote Kosi. After a long day on the water we wondered over to a shack to grab some supplies only to see him clutching what appeared to be a squawking box – that was to be dinner! Washed down with local spirits we slept under the stars, ready to awake to another day on the river.

Buses, tuck tucks, elephants, minuscule cars and tractors helped us move three people and boats around before the journey home, after three weeks in Nepal.

One thing is for certain, we’ll all be back for more quality paddling and copious amounts of tea…

Thanks to Pyranha for all their support and Maila and Chrissy at GRG Kayaking who really went out of their way to make us feel at home in Kathmandu. Aswell as Pete Baars at Summit to Sea for helping us out with the little bits and pieces.

Cheers,

Joe

http://www.vimeo.com/14535986

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!

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

.

]]> http://www.teampyranha.com/2010/08/16/upper-upper-ef-kaweah-exploring/feed/ 0 http://www.teampyranha.com/2010/08/16/video-of-demshitz-in-british-columbia/ http://www.teampyranha.com/2010/08/16/video-of-demshitz-in-british-columbia/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:36:29 +0000 dfusilli http://www.teampyranha.com/?p=6032

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.

The crew getting ready to head out

Jeremy Laucks trying out his newly converted Karnali C1

Danny doing the hairy ferry in his Rev

That’s all I got…

Scouting a NY Stout

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

Check out some photos here >>>

And here >>> 

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

Click here to see video

Winter B-Roll from Adam Goshorn on Vimeo.

Until Next Time…

-adam

Big Timber POV video

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.

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

photo by Franklin Adams

photo by Franklin Adams

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!!!!!

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

Spring sprung and it’s now deep into another hot summer here in the southeastern United States. I was a great winter/spring of paddling, but as usually my photo and video updates are running about 6 months behind, so lets back up for second. In early December I spend a couple great weeks in the Grand Canyon (see report here).   After getting off the Colorado River on Dec 18^th, I headed south to Mexico to enjoy some warmer weather and warmer waters (see report here).   When I returned home in January I found the entire region in a deep freeze.

The following two months the core groups of local paddlers kept paddling straight through one of the coldest Januarys and February s on record. Highlights included endless ice chandeliers on every run, beautiful snowy river banks, breaking through (and sometimes portaging) frozen pools on Little River Canyon and a few days dodging ice undercuts on the normally tame Tellico.

For more photos from this past winter and my review of the Immersion Research Double “D“ drysuit, click here.

Until Next Time…

Adam Goshorn

Mtb, skateboard, montainboard. Everybody jumped in water !

object>

This year we were fortunate to have another beautiful day to paddle the Skykomish River outside of Seattle, WA.  Thanks to Aquasports for promoting this event.  There was a great turn out for the paddle session.  We were stoked to have a bunch of people trying out Burns and Molans.  After the river, Charles put together a fun evening with pizza, beer, and a Dashboard Empanada Premier.  THANKS GUYS for a great day.  We had a lot of fun!

Check out the rest of the photos

Cheers,

See you on the water

On Saturday Marlow Canoe Club hosted the 2nd BCU Freestyle League Event, held at Boulters Weir. The results of the summer league will determine the British Champion and count towards GB team selection for 2011 World Championships.

It was a great day to be out on the water in the sunshine. Pyranha paddlers Jamie Burbeck and Bren Orton paddled well, winning 1st place in their respective categories.

Matt Tidy even took a break from his hectic work schedule  to come show everyone that carthwheels are still super cool.

Competition in the Juniors was fierce with James Benn and Bren Orton having their usual battle. Both pulling an impressive array of moves, in what can only be described as a ‘difficult’ feature.

The selection results * were as follows ( click on image for a larger view)

*  Apolgoies  I forgot to take a picture of the Elite K1 Men and OC1 categories.  I know Matty Nicholas won the K1 mens, followed by James Weight, Sam Anderson, Matt Tidy and Doug Cooper.

A slightly more informal final was also run at the end of the day to decide the Boulter’s Champion. Results will no doubt be posted on gbfreestylekayak.com asap.

Thanks to the organisers and all those that came along for a quality day in the sun.

Photo: Jim Pullen

Fortunately I managed to find couple of days spare leave from work at the end of May, persuaded two willing partners in crime and set about planning a 5 day mission. Initial plans for a fly-drive were scuppered as a result of an inconvenient Icelandic volcano, so we investigated the driving. 17 hours each way wasn’t going to be pretty, especially given the short duration of the trip, but it was possible, so we hit the man-up button and booked a ticket for the Eurotunnel.

Leaving straight from work on the Friday night we plugged the coordinates for the Ribo (actually in Switzerland) into the sat-nav and settled into the drive. 17 hours of travelling later and we rocked up at the put-in feeling ropey as hell, but fired up to paddle. The warm-up was a tasty 15m high slide – a definite wake-up call – before completing the river, then the remaining ~3 hour drive to Campertonogo in Italy.

The warm-up fall on the Ribo

The next few days were a blur of excellent whitewater, cheap pizza and even cheaper red wine, before we finally had to face the monster drive northwards to roll into work on Thursday morning, utterly destroyed.

Here’s a few more photos of the trip:

Photo: Jim Pullen

Photos by Rob Tuley and Tim Burne unless otherwise attributed

Today Demshitz met up at  Bob’s hole on the Clackamas River to paddle with a great crew of people from the area and Alder Creek Canoe & Kayak shop.  With the hot temperatures, it was a perfect day to spend on this fun and beautiful roadside run outside of Portland, OR.   Waiting for my head wound to heal, I was extremely jealous as I sat reading,  sweating, and taking photos on the river bank.

Here are some photos from the day.

Bob’s hole was extremely difficult to catch at this level.  But, rock spinning proved to be entertaining!

Next stop Washington.

ramp start

Jakobus racing

competitors

All photos by Marianne Stenglein, thanks!

Well another year another trip to Yule for demshitz.  Yule was a good bit lower than we have experienced on previous sessions.  I am not sure I liked it as much, however that could be because I crashed so big that right now my ribs still hurt.  This was about 4 weeks ago.  You will see why.  We are in Big Fork MT right now getting ready to head further west.  Saturday is a boat with the bros session at Alder Creek followed by a Dashboard Empanada premiere.  The very next day will be a similar situation at Aquasports in Redmond Washington.  Come Paddle demshitz!                  Yule Creek video HERE

We’ve had a super diverse last week on the road including some CO creeking, a wedding, a day and a half of driving, playboating in Missoula, and some fun MT creeking and river running.  Here’s a lil’ photo update.

A couple of days before leaving Colorado, we met up with our good friends Mike and Kyle Hagadorn to run Cheeseman Gorge; a beautiful creek none of us had seen before.  It was definitely on the low side of good, but we all had a great time and were glad to have the brothers Hagadorn to guide us through all the siphons.

Boofing & Siphon dodging

Jared routing the rarely run Penis Buster Parfait

There was some definite BROWN on this river

’slide for life’

The 3-mile crawl out of the canyon was also epic….especially when the “shortcut” leaves you all at various places up and down the road.  Fortunately Mike and Jared actually made it back to the van to come find the rest of the tired and hungry crew.

After a long drive along a dirt road “shortcut” we found ourselves in Missoula, MT.  We spent a day hanging out on Brennan’s Wave before the Team Trial Preliminaries on Wednesday.   Here Jared completes a Giant Brown Air.

Hannah Kertesz Finished 2nd in Junior Women’s, earning her spot on the US National Team!  Congrats!!!!!

J-dog

Fusilli

Craig Kleckner & Mike Patterson both respresented in Men’s Semi-Finals!

Craig Kleckner… Clearly a crowd favorite!

While spending time in Missoula, Dave, Graham, and I checked out the local Kootenai Creek.  Although short, it was a lot of fun and easy to lap.  Here is Dave entering the Pinch.

Graham boofing away from the Room of Doom

The next day Dave and I checked out Idaho’s classic Lochsa River.

The river was incredibly beautiful with super clear water, hawks, and huge trees growing out of sandy beaches.

And the river was fun with lots of playspots and waves perfect for downriver tricks.

Next stop =  Oregon!

CHECK IT ALL OUT!

I didn’t run the big stuff because of my freshly broken rib(4 weeks), but anyway it was an amazing trip!

Check the rest of the photos >>

My good friend Maxi Kniewasser, a fellow Pyranha paddler (who nearly all the photos have be shot by) has been showing me down the local runs, upper middle Cheakamus the Ashlu and of course the Callaghan (which is just 5 minutes away from our pad). The Callaghan is the ultimate after work run, full of awesome boof, technical rapids and of course the classic 6 metre waterfall.

One thing which seems to be common on all runs is the presence of at least one rapid named 50:50, or a name of a similar meaning. My favourite quote from Maxi which precedes these drops is pretty classic and usually starts with “no one really understands the line down this drop”.

After spending 2 weeks in Whistler soon the time came to venture on are first mission. The location decided was Hood River, Oregon, for some action on the Little White Salmon and the Salmon River; both of which certainly did not fail to impress! Perhaps one of the most exciting carnage stories is one participated in by myself.

We came to the last drop which inevitably was one of the previously talked about 50:50 style rapids. Having a quick scout from river right, the line from what we could see looked pretty straight forward, but given the line was on river left meant we couldn’t see much more than the rocks blocking any other line. But anyway, I went first ended up boofing the first drop, boofing the second followed by digging in the anchors to pull me past the hole. Then wham, my paddle jammed in the rocks my hands ended up pinging of the paddle and off I went, now upside down and paddle less. With a swift hand role; which with hindsight simply delayed the inevitable, I was now heading backwards down a salmon weir; an attempted backwards hand boof was not surprisingly unsuccessful. Side surfing a man made weir, with no paddle, for future reference in not the best plan and eventually results in ejection. Also I would like to thank all the locals for info on water levels and perhaps more importantly the local yummy mummy who showed us how to party hood river style!

The new large burn has been the boat of choice by both myself and maxi for the season and wow in all seriousness I can confidently say its the best boat I’ve ever paddled. Its fast, boofs sweet, easy to correct and my favourite, it planes perfectly when boofing into eddies and landing drops. Well done to everyone at Pyranha for coming out with this master piece!

Peace out

Me on the Ashlu

The wheels

Me eating s*** on the little white Oregon

Maxi styling the waterfall on the Callaghan

Maxi on the Elaho

Me just after the waterfall on the Callaghan

Top boof Callaghan

2nd to last drop on the Callaghan

Si on Old Dirty Bastard (Callaghan), one of theose 50:50 at best rapids

Me on the Little White Salmon, Hood river

Team Pyranha at the Glenwood Wave

Team Germany scouting

Boatercross

Sprint

Downriver Race

Slalom

All photos by Uwe Eichfelder, thanks!

Thee weeks leading up the euros seemed to drag on forever but it was well worth the wait.

The competition took place in Lienz, Austria. Lienz is a truly beautiful place filled with good play spots, good people and even better ice cream. Infact it would have been perfect had it not been for the “british weather” – I sincerely regretted packing only shorts and t – shirts.

The competion started on thursday. With the help of the coaches Ross Montandon and Sam Ward, I paddled  the best I did the entire competion. Lee pyke easily made it through the premlims with some huge loops, fast cartwheels and precise split wheels. The junior mens score sheet for the premlims can be seen below.

Friday, was devoted to the mens premlims due to its huge amount of participants. I got to see some big names in paddling throw down and also saw some of the lesser know paddlers tear it up.

Saturday, was the semi finals. I had some okay rides and made it into the finals in 4th place, Lee pyke threw some huge loops and fast cartwheels and also had a pheonix monkey attempt, unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough to make it into the top 5 and he finished in 9th place.

Saturday was the final day of the competition. I paddled reasonably well but caught an unlucky flush with one of my mcnastys leaving me in 3rd place.

Watching the mens finals realy inspired me,  it made me want to boat at such a high standard and it also made me want a carbon boat . . . realy, realy badly.

I’ll upload some photos of me and Lee paddling as soon as I can.

See you on the water,

Bren

I traveled in Italy 10 days. ICF  Slalom races, runed new rivers, and raced THE TEOG 2010.

Third in long race, i did a crazy run in extreme twenty race. See the next photo…

Outch !!! Bad landing, back injured, and paddle broken. But it is not over for ” pink helmet” .

I finished my run in C1 mode ! And i don’t have the last time. Awesome run.

After the long race by team by nation. Everybody came to Ivrea for next races:

- Two sprint runs. Two slalom runs. One slalom run by team. And teh ultime race, the Boater cross.

-4th in sprint race. 45th in slalom (aie aie aie ???!).

The last day was for me.

Qualified in final run i was the first to touch the last point. I win !!!! sweet.

If i wasn’t unlucky in slalom. sure i was on overall podium.

That’s for next year.

Cheers, Eric