Reports on what the Pyranha World Team has been up to
07
May
Photos by Ben Trister Below: Adam Goshorn on the last of the bedrock slides before the streambed changed to boulders and the bottom dropped out! McWhorter Gulf and its watershed are contained entirely within the boundaries of Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area and speaking in terms of geographic place-names, it flows southeast off of Pigeon …
07
May
Welcome to the Pyranha Team Tour 2014. Our first stop this year was the XXL Paddle Festival at the Kanu White Water Park in Markkleeberg, Germany between the 2 and 4th of May. (May the 4th be with you :-). This event really kick started out tour with over 500 kayakers and a total over …
03
May
I’m just back from a trip with a difference to Romania, where we’ve been paddling and exploring the Carpathian Mountains, with a Romanian team of paddlers, arranged by one of Pyranhas’ newest dealers, the excellent http://www.barciinbagaje.ro/. We found some excellent quality Whitewater, in a fairly unexplored and very friendly and extremely pretty area of Europe. …
27
Apr
As Baino mentioned in an earlier post, Pyranha were up in Glen Etive for a sweet weekend of boating for the British Universities Creek Race. Video Time!!!
23
Apr
After 2 great months of charging Chile and Argentina, we headed back to Santiago for a flight to Quito, Ecuador to begin the last leg of the South America trip. After arriving and spending a night in the airport, we headed for Baeza, one of the major hotspots for paddling in the country. While Ecuador …
22
Apr
On the 5th and 6th of April over 110 ladies descended on North Wales for the second Ladies Paddle Symposium, organised and run by team paddler and coach Frannie Kohn. Once again it was a multi-discipline event with more than 30 white water kayak, sea kayak, freestyle, open canoe and white water safety& rescue coaches …
21
Apr
Below: Matt Beauchamp on the El Salto Section of the Rio Valles, photo by Adam Goshorn We had been enjoying our time in Veracruz (see Mexico 2013 Part III HERE), but water levels continued to be too high for many of runs we would have been paddling in a normal year. There were a few …
17
Apr
British Universities Creek Race 2014 Glen Etive was blessed with perfect mild conditions allowing snow melt to provide a really nice race level. This year the race consisted of races on both the Etive and Allt a Choanne with a 2 runs on each. The best run counted from each course. For all the …
16
Apr
Below: Must be going the right way, photo by Evan Alfano Below: Adam Goshorn on the Rio Alseseca , photo by Shannon Goshorn The day after we paddled the second canyon of the Rio Verde with Team Previa (see: Mexico 2013 part II HERE); we woke up early and broke down our camp at Aldea …
13
Apr
The paddling season is officially under way in the Northeast!! In one week we went from full-on winter conditions to beautiful, sunny, Spring. On Sunday, most of the rivers still had ice and the skiing conditions were all-time. By the time the following Friday rolled around the rivers had broken free, and they were raging. …