Category Archive: Paddler Lifestyle Articles

Fall is my favorite season in New York.  Every weekend in September and October there is a great class IV/V dam controlled river to paddle on (thanks Chris Koll, Pete Skinner, and American Whitewater).  I kicked off the fall dam release season with runs on the Raquette River and Moshier section of the Beaver.  Saturday I found myself …

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Yep, that s right, we out here in Norway are always busy! This weekend the rains finaly came!!!! Yehaaar. Liz came out and we headed up to the Myrkdale River. Seemed like a good day to test a new PFD! The Front, full harness, reflective tape and low profile shoulder straps.

Well its been the driest summer ever (except when Rob visited!!) and finally it has started raining again!!!! Here are some images of summer fun.                      

Well what a day…  Long would be one way to descibe it.   Team Pyranha had a good showing.  Val Bertrand in womens(17th) Jeremey L. In Mens (33rd) ANd C1(6th) Jared Sieler (42nd) Me (Matt Hamilton) (21st) The levels were great making it an awesome competition.  Great to see so many people from all over the world …

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Some people reckon that the West coast of North America is the best kayaking road trip you can do, but for me the best bang for your buck is the European tour- starting in Corsica, working up through Slovenia, Italy and France to the mecca of Norway.  My season began in Corsica in April, through to Slovenia and France …

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Summer of work work work, busy learning how to mend people. Loads of fun but can’t wait now to get out on the river. Have been doing rather too much of this… Now off to Norway to catch the last part of the season and do some of this… Then slog it out at the …

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Ive just got back from a fantastic trip to British Columbia with the boys from Fat Cats Productions. What a adventure, amazing water, scetchy information, cashed cars and  the odd angry local. Off to help out with the National youth Series here in the UK this weekend as I’m not confident in Jamie’s water. We’ll …

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Up here in Norway, its dry, soooo, dry. It might look like it is going to rain heaps any minute, but no,, not on us. We have had another record summer, but after a record snow-lessness winter all the water has run off. huh!

Hi there, just signed up, got my powers and now testing this system out. Its funny, I am just this minute learning wordpress for myself to make my site ‘live’. Maybe you can check out gallery2 and install the plugin on here so we can link in our gallerys? (geeky huh) Anyway, hope all is …

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Having enjoyed my river boating so much up in Scotland for the LiquidLife event, I am planning much more for the next few months. Off to Wales this weekend with the promise of rain so hopefully I will get to give my C1 Burn another outing and have a play in my 4 Twenty in …

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