14
Mar
Hello everyone! My name is Eric Walter, I´m from Germany, I´m 17 years old and recently joined Team Pyranha. I don´t want to bore you with a very long text about myself, due to that I took some old footage from 2010 and cut a promotional video for the Molan ! I hope you enjoy it.
The video of my last weekend in Plattling is coming today, too.
14
Mar
One month ago I bought a ticket to Portland with the plan of running a couple rivers throughout Oregon. Currently I am more then halfway though my nine day trip and I have rune more vertical feet than most people have run in their life.
The first day I got picked up from the airport after waking up at 3am to get on the plane. We quickly drove to Eagle Creek and Kyle Hull and I ran 35 foot Punchbowl falls and 90 foot Metlako falls. It was around 6.00 when we ran the falls so the light was too low to film.
The next day I ran Upper and Lower Bridal Veil Falls. The Upper drop was supposedly navigated twice before. The Upper falls is about 60 feet with an auto-boof halfway down. The bottom drop is a 30 to 40 foot slide. I scouted the drop briefly and decided to run it. The lip of the top drop was gigantic. The crowd at the bottom had to be 100 feet down. Luckily I had great lines on both drops.
After, John Hyland, Kyle Hull, and I traveled to the Little White Salmon. This classic creek is a gem. The water was high, but nonetheless we headed down the river. This has to be my new favorite creek. Kyle and I ran every rapid including Sprit falls, a monstrous 30 footer with a very dangerous rapid called chaos right after. We both had good lines.
The next two days were spent Southeast of Hood River on the Mckenzie River. Kyle hull and I ended up running 75 foot Koosah falls and 85-foot Sahalie Falls. Both had difficult lips. Our lines were good though.
After that, John, Kyle, and I went to Celestial falls, a clean fifty footer. We ran our boats in, hoping not to get spotted by the locals and we were successful. Celestial falls is a great drop for an introduction to hucking.
The last day I was in Oregon I went back to Eagle Creek. My goal was to run Metlako 5-8 times in a day. The water was ridiculously high the morning I woke up. I hiked up to check out Metlako Falls and it looked pretty good. I ran back down to the car, did the two-mile hike with my boat, above Metlako and started hucking. I ended up running this infamous 102-foot drop 6 times that day. The only battle scar I came out with was a gash and a black eye.
It definitely was not fun leaving this amazing place. The quality of waterfalls and rivers is astounding. Hopefully I will get to go back this year.
14
Mar
 Here in the Adirondacks (Waaay up in northern New York) we have seasons. The boats get put away sometime around Thanksgiving, we go skiing for a few months,  and by the end of March they start to make their way back on to ice cold rivers.  Right now we are finishing one season, and heading full speed ahead into another.Â
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14
Mar
Well the east got hammered with rain, add to that the warming days and snow melt.And that has brought the Susquehanna river to “biblical levels” as Brad from Starrk Moon would say. The flows are around 500,000 plus CFS. That is more than twice the average flow over the lip of Niagara falls. So as any good boater would we got a group together to see what we could find. Jeremy Laucks, the Smith boys Toffer and Tim,Brian Cox and myself put on just below the Holtwood dam and made our way down to the islands below the Normanwood bridge, catching some massive waves and dodging huge holes along the way. As we scouted the area looking for the best waves. We saw that the group of onlookers from the bridge now included the PA state police. We gave them the head tap sign that we were ok and pealed out headed to the bear trap channel. As Jeremy is throwing a pan am the State police helicopter came over the island hovered shouting over the pa asking if we were in distress? After a few more head taps and rides and several passes of the chopper the word from the pa was now “Exit the river immediately ,exit the river immediately ” . Now not wanting to anger anyone we made our way to the take out and were met by eight of PA’s finest state police. They informed us a flare was seen and we were the ones presumed to be in need of saving. A short exchange of ID’s and we were left with a note asking that “Before you go next time give us the heads up PSP Lancaster station (717)299-7650.”
This is your public service announcement please call so you can save yourself the gut pains that come from paddling up to eight troopers and parking lot full of EMS units who don’t look really happy with you. Stay safe and have fun. Matt Samms
11
Mar
photo: Nicole Mansfield
Click Here and enjoy the show.
20 minutes of Pyranha kayak porn. Team Pyranha takes the rivers by storm. From North America to the jungles of Chile!! Enjoy!
Coming soon a full schedule of Team Pyranha’s season tour of the US.
10
Mar
Check out this article I wrote for Canoe and Kayak Magazine about my first descent of “The Powder Hole” on the Wapwallopen Creek in Northeast PA. Here is a link to Jeremy Laucks video on Facebook. I had a solid crew with me on a very cold day. Ive been wanting to run the falls for a long time. Thanks to all that came out and made it as sweet as possible! More rain coming to the area. Getting fired up for Spring! Happy Boating.
Also…
Check out this video my brother Graham edited from our last week of creeking in PA.
09
Mar
This is my first post for Pyranha Kayaks but I have been affiliated with this company for some time now. Â Working for the U.S. distributor in Asheville this past summer was an amazing experience and I learned a lot about the industry. Â Boating in Asheville taught me to take advantage of the local creeks and rivers around the area when they are flowing. Â Now I’m back home for school in Pennsylvania and work part-time but still find some time to get out and explore some new runs. Â Anyways I enjoy making videos and here are two that I recently edited . . .
The first video is an advertisement for a feature-length film uploaded for free on a website I started with a couple of friends. Â You can view the entire film here at – River Left Productions. Â I also submitted the video for Rider of the Year: Best Online Film and you can view it here – Rider of the Year.
The second video is a little edit I put together after a nice surf session out at Holtwood on Beartrap. Â Holtwood has been my home play park all my life and it’s what I grew up on. Â This amazing playground for boating is being renovated and for more information you should refer to Matt’s earlier post regarding arrangements with PPL click here- Holtwood Whitewater Park.
Photo from last year at Beartrap –
When the Susquehanna is above 6 ft there is usually something going on, when it is super high then that’s when it gets good. Â Also, everyone out was either in Varun or Molan and got some incredible rides. Â Thanks a lot Pyranha for two great boats!
Peace out,
Brenton
02
Mar
http://vimeo.com/20564310
Its not actualy 30 minutes long, Im still getting to grips with my new software.
See you on the water
Bren
27
Feb
Last summer three of us headed out to Thailand to see what we could find. It was a great trip, check out the video here http://jakeholland.wordpress.com/
