Category Archive: Paddler Lifestyle Articles

We have just returned to freezing cold Canada after Exploring Malaysia and the entire length of Vietnam. All the way from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) to the Chinese border… travelling in a 40 seater bus with 4 other paddlers and a translater. Malaysia offered up some pretty fun rivers as well and a lot of …

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                                                          After an fantastic trip to New Zealand its good to be back on my local run.  I had a good weekend, despite a disappointing day on sunday after lots of rain but still low water and a trip to A&E for a friend.                                         

Copyright 2007 the photographer does not wish to be recognized due to the focus of the photos!!!!! Back in Hood River again!

The last few months have seen the mighty father Thames (south east of the Blighty) flowing at some very high levels.  My local weir  Shepperton has been producing a wide variety of features over the last couple of weeks, as the water rises and falls, from closed out deep stoppers that pull the leaves from surounding trees to a large …

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In November I accompanied a group of students on a 10 day expedition. They are 1st year students of Outdoor recreation , and most have started kayaking this year. We walked for 5 days over a couple of peaks, and reached the headwaters of the Clarence river , then spent 5 days descending the 200km …

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I have been taking some downtime lately, due to a leg injury and operation that went bad, but in the re-hab time I have completely rebuilt my www.riverkore.com site. My aim was to make to update able by all of our riverkore team and present it as a showcase of our adventures. You will find …

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After a record setting Fall of floods here in the Northwest, my wife Lise-Anne and I decided to escape the short days and cold water of BC and head south to Ecuador for a month. This was my first trip to South America and it could be best described as a posh boating trip or …

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Gradually winter is arriving here in middle Europe and therefore there’s not too much paddling action possible here at the moment (unfortunately I don’t have a ticket to the southern hemisphere or something like that this winter…). So I decided to put a couple of pictures of last season onto the page.    

With the Thames still flowing high & Shepperton rather washed out,  me and Jon headed of to Sunbury for a black ops secret ninja paddle.  The water was high and to enter the wave took some imagination, we got there in the end ;).  Then off to wwtcc for tea & work