30
Dec
Peru and Bolivian trip cancelled. Where can we go…? Mexiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiico !!!
Mexico, pura vida. from Eric Deguil on Vimeo.
First stop at Tlapacoyan at Aventurec playground. The rio Alseseca is one this river who can’t never forget.
Sick slides and water falls in fantastic jungle with Basalt river bed.
Pura vida !
21
Dec
Here’s just a few clips from our Chile trip. Â There will be much more to come so stay posted. Â Oh and this is probably the best brown claw photo that I have ever seen! Â Â Video Click Here
Photo by: Â Anton Immler
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20
Dec
Typically December is great month to be a kayaker in Alabama. Frequent rainfall and mild temperatures usually result in lots of river days without much discomfort. However, December 2010 started out with a deep freeze that swept mercilessly across the southeastern United States. Alabama is typically around five to ten degrees warmer than the rest of the southeast paddling scene, but even here nighttime temperatures dipped into the single digits and daytime temperatures stayed below freezing for days on end.
What’s a paddler to do when the water is low and the weather is unkind? The same thing we do the rest of the year, of course! Go kayaking! The lack of rainfall has left many rivers too low, but Little River Canyon in the northeastern corner of Alabama remains runnable at quite low flows. A trip down Little River Canyon at higher flows is usually characterized by pushy water and big holes (lots of fun in its own right). However, at low flows it channelizes between the huge boulders and creates a run that is more the style of a low volume creek and is a local favorite when most other rivers in the region are too low.
For the rest of the write-up, pictures, and video… click HERE.
To skip straight to the video… click HERE.
16
Dec
Well as you have seen from Nicole’s posts, Demshitz have been in Chile hitting up all the great rivers over here. But DemBritz have been here too, representing Ol’ Blighty. So I thought I would give you a few photos from us too. I have managed to meet up with lots of the American pyranha kids like Dave, Nicole, Jared, etc
Tzak Garnett Leevers on the park and huck at Coilaco Falls
Chile is full of clean, beautiful rivers and when the sun shines, there is no better place to be than hitting up one of the many park and hucks! It beats the Upper Dart in December anyway!
Me scaring myself on the 70 foot waterfall on the famous middle Palguin
There are plenty of boaters here to meet up with, and its easy to hire boats. You should definitely add Chile to your list of places to come – as the only British kayaker in Pucon right now, I need back-up to make fun of the Americans! The pictures speak for themselves 🙂
the absolute classic run- upper Palguin
15
Dec
14
Dec
A in-depth look into the dwelling of a dedicated boater on the side of a river. Click on the picture to view. M 17+ Rating
13
Dec
Sickline Team searches for The Book Of Legends
In the Bashkaus River Canyon in Siberia there is a book waiting in a metal box for all those kayakers who are not too scared to run one of Russia’s toughest rapids. In 1972, Bashkaus River Canyon saw its first descent. Forty years later, the team want to perpetuate their names in the mystic book, which cannot be accessed from land. Legend has it that once your name is written in the book your are immortal…
Ten kayakers – Olaf Obsommer (GER), Tomass Marnics (LAT), Florian Dillier (SUI), Jared Meehan (NZL), Bernhard Mauracher (AUT), Sam Sutton (NZL), Stephan Pion (FRA), Thilo Schmitt (GER), Timo Köster (GER) and Philip Baues (GER) — aim to master the challenging Bashkaus River and find The Book of Legends.
The expedition takes the kayakers to Siberia’s highest mountain range, the Altai Mountains, where Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia all come together. The range extends some 300 km from the West to the East and from the South to the North, the highest summit being Mt. Belukha (4,506m/ 14,783ft) at the Kazakhstan border.
Apart from surviving the Bashkaus Canyon and writing their names into the legendary book, the team plans a first descent of the 25m high Kurkure waterfalls and a first descent of the remote Edygem Canyon, a 4-day adventure in itself. Big volume rivers and roaring waterfalls embedded in untouched wilderness will not only demand technical excellence of the ten kayakers, but also adventure spirit, stamina and a high tolerance for suffering, as conditions will require long self-sustaining river runs and ample hikes.
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Dec
03
Dec
The fall of 2010 has been especially dry in the southeastern United States, leaving boaters to rely on dam release runs we waiting for the rains to return. For north Alabama, the fall of 2010 has been the exact opposite of the fall of 2009. In 2009 the rains came back in force in mid September and provided consistent natural flow into early June 2010. However, at the end of the first week of June, things dried up and there have been very few natural flow events since… until this week!
Early this week, northern Alabama received around four inches of rain over the course of two days. By Tuesday morning the ground was thoroughly saturated and the rain was still coming down in copious sheets. Despite the formerly low water table, rivers and creeks everywhere sprang to life. Flows in Little River Canyon went from 50 CFS to 8,000 CFS in less than a day. As the rivers emerged from there long hibernation, so did the network of boaters across the southeast. I think I received more calls, e-mails, and text about boating in two days than I did in the previous two months combined; everyone was beyond amped!
01
Dec
On Saturday the 20th of November, Means of Production 2 premiered in Leeds for the 150 people lucky enough to obtain tickets.
At 7 o’clock, the crowd began to gather in the bar.
at 8:15 everyone is seated, the room is packed, and Tony Bilbow (Means of Production narrator) gets the crowd warmed up before introducing the film.
Approximately 69 minutes later and Nick Horwood hugs a very relieved Max Bilbow; the film, it seems, is a sockeroo!
Then, as in Mop premiers past, it’s off to our private room at Tiger Tiger where dress code begins to deteriorate as expected.
It appears that Andrea (Max’s mum) has been caught in the same outfit as someone else… how awkward.
Fun times had by all,
A great big thanks to Leeds University Canoe Club for organising the event, and to all the wonderful people who made the night a complete success… a sockeroo!
Photos: Paul Wilkinson – http://pwilkinson.net/
Pre-order Means of Production 2 now from www.mopmovie.com – Expected UK delivery: Just in time for Christmas
DVD CONTENT
Means of Production 2 (approximately 69 minutes)
BONUS FEATURES
* 2x Promotional trailers
* The Making of MOP2 documentary
* Slow motion headcam edit
* Deleted Scenes
* Sat Nav Sam music video
* 5 hidden bonus features to search for!
MUSIC BY
* Ugly Duckling
* Frank Turner
* Sat Nav Sam
* Kae Sun
* Hurricane Sunday
* The Dub Dentist
* Danny Pig
* No Change
* Chris (the man in a hat) martin
* The Screaming Citizens
* David Benassi
