I’ve been hanging around the Pacific North West in the USA for the last month now, and it’s definitely one of the best places to be. Amazing rivers, super nice people and beautiful landscape everywhere, loving this place! Â We drove down from Vancouver, BC with Ali and right after the border we stopped in …
Category Archive: Paddler Lifestyle Articles
Reports on what the Pyranha World Team has been up to
20
May
20
May
The James River, Richmond River Rocks
The James River in Richmond Virgina has multiple play spots, good attainment routes, and small creek lines. This is all located right in downtown Richmond. I have been to Richmond several times to paddle on the James and it’s always entertaining. Every time I end up at the take out for the Richmond town run …
17
May
Creeking in The Smokies with the Nano
I flew out to North Carolina for the NOC Team Trials and after a weekend of rain, the creeks in the Smokies started to rise. Along for the ride with Demshitz, we hit the West Prong and Big Creek at nearly perfect flows. The West Prong is a fairly steep continuous class five run and …
16
May
Bren Orton – Life Style Interview
A few weeks ago, my buddy Shaun “Shifty” Hazel contacted me to ask if he could make a short film about me for his uni course. Here’s the end result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odxrKzXnYKU See you on the water,Bren
13
May
Magical White Water Kayaking the Baker with SBP
First episode from SBP and Epic TV series; Kayaking down the Baker in Patagonia, Chile. The Baker is the largest river in Chile and offers some of the best whitewater I’ve ever paddled together with an amazing landscape. HidroAysén is willing to built two mega dams on this gem, on of them on the same …
11
May
First UK Ladies Paddle Symposium
The weekend before last saw the UK’s inaugural Ladies Paddle Symposium organised by Pyranha team-member Fran Kohn. Around 70 British paddling ladies from the disciplines: freestyle, river paddling, sea kayaking and canoeing gathered together in Glan Llyn near Bala. It was ideally located close to the Sea and the Trweryn as well as having a …
08
May
Younguns freestyle
The first ever Younguns event took place on the Tryweryn this past weekend, Taking up where the youth freestyle series left off, Younguns still maintains the original elements from the series; An extraordinary amount of young paddlers getting out on the water and having fun ! The Tryweryn is the longest venue the tour visits …
07
May
Chiapas, Mexico
Last March I went to Chiapas (Mexico) with some friends for some kayaking adventures. Rush Sturges from River Roots is shooting an amazing film project with mexican kayaker Rafa Ortiz, so along with them; Evan, my brother Aniol and myself went to his beautiful land to enjoy some of the best rivers in the world. …
07
May
Welcome spring!
After six months working and kayaking around Patagonia I’m back at home at the Basque Country. The spring is already here, and winter has been quite snowy in the Pyrenees so it looks that we are gonna have good flows during this season. I’m back in class 5 white water after the shoulder injury that …
06
May
Exploring Uttarakhand
At the end of the monsoon last year a group of us headed to Uttarakhand, India. We were expecting to jump on the classics but it quickly transpired that there was so much more to do than what is commonly done. This video features the first descents of the East and West Nayyar and the …