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04
Oct

King of New York Series Featured on PaddlingLife.net: Race #4 The Moose Right Around the Corner

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With the final race of the inaugural King of New York Series right around the corner I thought I’d share a nice write-up from a previous race in the series.  The Black race was the first of four and did not disappoint.

Saturday October 15th, High Noon, Agers Falls on the Moose River will be the start of the final race.  With the dam on the Moose completely off-line racers will negotiate a much more “full” river than they are used to.  Hang on to your hats!!!

Check out the link below for the write-up from the Black.

http://www.paddlinglife.net/article.php?id=723

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03
Oct

Pyranha Fest 2011

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The big P Fest is just around the corner, this year is set to be the biggest and best yet, plus its our 40th Birthday Party!

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Full Info and Booking

On line booking will stay open until Monday 10th.

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25
Sep

Rissbach-meeting 2011

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Yesterday was the legendary Rissbach-gorge meeting in Tirol/Austria. The event is every year and is organized by the alpine Kayak Club  http://www.alpiner-kayak-club.org/ And like all the past Years the class 5 Section with severall undercuts was perfectly saved ! Thanks to them !!

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23
Sep

1st time creek boater paddles the Shiva

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A week ago I made it back home to Clarion, PA in search of some much needed rest.   I had been on the road for about five and a half months.  I must say it was another amazing summer in the Pyranha van!  Anyway, so I’m back home.  Mike, a friend that helps my dad out at the house starts talking to me about paddling the Upper Yough.  The Yough is a great well known class 4 river.  This is where I honed most of my creeking skills as a younger paddler.  Knowing Mike as a strong fired up dude, I looked over at the Pyranha van, and thought ….. yes this will be a great test for the new Shiva.  Knowing how user friendly the Shiva is I was confident that Mike would have a great day on the Upper Yough.  This was Mike’s first time in a creek boat and first time on something as difficult as the Upper Yough.  Mike did not even flip over!  Click here to watch Mike paddle the Upper Yough!

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Mike browning after National Falls

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23
Sep

Tshletshy Creek, WA

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Tshletshy Creek had been on my mind for 10 years. It was one of those trips that seemed to be just far enough out of reach each year and hard enough logistics that most paddlers wanted to wait and hear how it was from someone else. Tucked away in the Olympic National Park, this trip tuned out nothing short of a true adventure.. Click Here to see the Video Trip Report

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20
Sep

North Harper Falls Park and Huck

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Late summer in the southeast doesn’t leave a whole lot of options for kayaking except on dam release runs. Wanting to get on something new, myself and a small crew went and checked out North Harper Falls, a waterfall in the Upper Wilson Creek Drainage. After a 2 mile hike/bushwack, we found a huge runnable waterfall with a somewhat green landing but after a little scout decided it was good to go even at, oh about 12 cfs.

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Turn out the hit was not even that bad, and its a great place to practice paddle tosses and stomping down, because it does want to kick you flat. This would a really awesome, high quality drop with a lot of water, so I am hoping to get back out there this year with water.

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13
Sep

Open European Championship Devils Extreme Race 2011

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The main czech creeking event took place last week in August. Many competitors (CZE, SVK, SLO, GER, NZL, ITA…) came to Lipno.

The event is my favouritre, because I usually  meet there many friends,  kayakers and competitors!

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The men category had better and harder course, but we had slalom like qualification (I gained 2. place) and the main competition was sprint. I placed on 3. place after Anne Hubner and Louise Jull. Men had longer sprint and the winner was Mike Dawson.

On sunday was kayak cross and team sprint, which the Zet kayak team won!

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Photos by Jakub Suchy taken in Lipno.

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06
Sep

team easan first decent

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The get in for the Allt Baille a'Mhuilinn burn

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The first rapid on the Allt Baille a'Mhuilinn burn

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The portage on the Allt Baille a'Mhuilinn burn

After our recent trip to Norway, Gavin and I decided to attempt to run 10 new scottish rivers. We’d had our eye on a small burn called Allt Baille a’Mhuilinn for a few years but had never caught it at the right level. After a typical scottish day of torrential rain we decided to head up to check the level. The burn was just runnable, but as it was still raining hard we decided to get on in the hope it would rise further. Within half an hour the level had went up a further 12 inches which was perfect. We had to portage a 10 m dog leg fall with a shallow landing. We had an amazing day on the water. Here’s a link to the small video I made; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OyTqifZRX8

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06
Sep

Shiva Pyranha’s new creeking machine video

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Shiva on Gore Canyon, CO

Photo: Jed Selby

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05
Sep

Hunting for waterfalls in Venezuela

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The British Universities Kayak Expedition team are now in the Gran Sabana of Venezuela, on the search for waterfalls. With another 10 days left in Venezuela, we have a few more objectives here in the Gran Sabana before we head to the coast for a few days surfing and then back to the UK, ready for the Wet West Paddle Fest and the start of another year at Uni. Check out the team´s talk/presentation on the Friday night at WWPF.

Check out the team blog for more photos.

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