There are few places on the east coast that offer more than 10 miles of continuous class V, mind blowing views, and no vehicle access. The Linville gorge is one. Over the last year i took some great pics of this special place and i thought I’d share.

  

There are so many good runs in North Carolina and Tennessee, but its hard to find so much awesomeness in one place.

 This Winter a group five British kayakers travelled out to the Sichuan Province of China to explore some endangered rivers. We met up with Travis Winn an american kayaker that lives and works in China.

The team struggled through paperwork, customs, beauraucracy, mad and bad roads, vehicular and almost nervous breakdowns to hit the untouched whitewater of the Litang. This first descent proved to be a gem, full of read and run through forest lined banks and mountainous backdrops. Until we hit the dams where the character changed dramatically to a bigger volume, harder, and more dangerous run. Here are some pics:

A swift turnover and we were on the second descent of the Yalong.

 

 

The Yangste was our third river and the main aim of the trip. This was last done in 1986 with varying levels of success by two teams, a Chinese and a sino-american team, there’ll be more on this in a film that will be around later this year

 

 

 

 

Its a hard job but someone has to do it!

With the excellent tides and opportunity for a film crew and speed boat, obviously we jumped at the chance of a Pyranha and P&H photoshoot at the famous Bitches tiderace in Pembrokeshire.

Setting out just before sunrise meant we got to see this awesome sight, and arrived at the race as it was building, giving us plenty of time to set up the equipment and get everyone used to the features.

With a full range of brand new play boats from Pyranha and P&H (yes play boats designed specifically for the sea) we were armed with enough toys to really get the most out of the day.

Yes that is the very first Carbon Molan, paddled by Bren Orton.

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Enjoy some epic kayaking, savage carnage and retarded stunts from Chile winter 2010-2011Chile 2010-2011

Here is the Video of West-German championships!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CKkU3SwJM

The title rings true in so many ways.  But lately, “in a boating way” – even more so.  Cali goes hand in hand with SUNSHINE and GRANITE.  But given that some end-of-the-world storms have been blasting us this winter, it is now RAIN and BASALT.  So staying indoors, breaking out the maps and exploring some new low elevation runs, is the name of the game. (and by low I mean low as in 200′ above sea level).  So here is video and here for more words and pictures. The sun finally broke out yesterday, yeah.

The winter here in Colorado has been a long one.  So long in fact that lately I have spent the countless hours watching kayaking videos and splashing cold water in my face.  October 28th 2010 marked the last time my ass touched the seat of my Pyranha Molan…until this weekend!

After hearing from my friend Leif Anderson that the whitewater park in Casper, Wyoming was in, I dropped everything headed up to meet him in Fort Collins.  Leif, his fiancee Natalie and I rallied through a savage snow storm on a four and a half hour drive north to Casper for a weekend of freezing cold play-boating.

I want to give a huge shout out to the Schmitt family for hooking up a place to crash, T-roy for letting me borrow his M Molan, John Quartana for the Go-Pro and Leif and Natalie for these photos, hope you enjoy them…edit coming soon!

Whitewater Park in Casper, WY

Evening session with Leif

Throwing around the Molan on a puny feature

First loop in a while...felt great!

Not positive, but I think this is a BROWN trout, almost getting as much air as me in the Molan... 🙂

Trying to keep my head dry.