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Bren Orton

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Date registered: January 3, 2012

Latest posts

  1. Which river runner? — February 20, 2024
  2. California Dreaming 2 — July 17, 2023
  3. Firecracker goes to Turkey! — April 3, 2023
  4. Back to Mexico! — November 29, 2022
  5. A Few Words on the Ripper 2 — May 7, 2022

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20
Feb

Which river runner?

Honestly it’s not easy to choose a Pyranha down river, half slice kayak these days. I currently have four of them sat outside my window vying for my attention to get loaded up on the car and taken to the river.  I’m a stocky 73kg (160lbs) and I like to swap between the medium and …

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17
Jul

California Dreaming 2

Coming to the Royal Gorge for the first time this year I felt like I was putting together all of the things that I had learned from Demshitz over the years…

03
Apr

Firecracker goes to Turkey!

The Firecracker had me excited from the beginning, but it still took me a while to understand what the design is capable of and what its limitations are. On a highwater, spontaneous Turkey trip, I found out exactly what I could do with it…

29
Nov

Back to Mexico!

I brought my trusty large Scorch for this trip, I was confident it was going to perform really well on most things, but I was interested to see how it would handle some big free fall. This is the one area I haven’t really been able to test the Scorch out and I was a little bit apprehensive about all that rocker in the nose…

07
May

A Few Words on the Ripper 2

After 22 days on the water, how does Bren Orton think the Ripper 2 compares to the original?

29
Jan

The Zambezi Again?

No matter where life leads me, there is one river that will have me forever coming back; the Zambezi.

08
Dec

How to Go Kayaking in Kenya

Kenya is quickly becoming one of my favourite places to kayak. I hope everyone reading this gets the chance to check out and enjoy kayaking in this incredible country. Below are a couple of tips and tricks on how to have the best time out there.

30
Oct

Bren’s Park Jam 2021

It’s been a while since we last had the opportunity to put a Park Jam session on, and this year’s tour was short and hurriedly organised as myself and my sponsors realised that I had just enough time to fit something in between projects, juggling responsibilities, and navigating ever-changing travel restrictions and rules.

01
Jul

A Few Words on the Scorch

My second day in it I had it on a waterfall run in Austria and I can honestly say I have never smiled as much down a river as I flew with my nose so high down the drops and whipped into the micro eddies above and below them.

03
May

You Can’t Use That on There!

A few years ago there seemed to be a widely accepted belief that in order to kayak down harder rivers you needed a creekboat. A big one!

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