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.
Monthly Archive: May 2007
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May
Lofer Extreme Race
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 …
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May
Recoiling in California
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 …
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May
Ammos in Action.
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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May
Norway – Spring Flows with the bros!
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 …
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May
Northern California – North Yuba
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.
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May
Paddling in Lofer
My brother and I enjoyed an awesome paddling weekend in Lofer/Austria. Thanks to the rainfall the week before, we were able to run the gorge several times in our Ammos and had heaps of fun. Perfect water level, perfect weather, perfect weekend!
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May
Plastic Fantastic Alpkit Kayak Series – River Washburn, UK
After years of the Peak UK Challenge series Pete Astles has decided to take a break. Step up Jim from Alpkit and a slightly changed format and you get the Plastic Fantastic Alpkit Kayak Series. Round 1 was at the River Washburn in the UK and with a Boater X, Alpjam, Freestyle and a Pyranha …
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May
Reno and Royal Gorge
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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May
TEVA Extreme Mountain Games Val Sesia
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. …