Reports on what the Pyranha World Team has been up to
28
Mar
As Quebec is experiencing is coldest winter in 20 years. I had planned to do a trip to the US in march. I’m used to travel with all the Quebec Connection crew. What that means is that when we are going to the US, we are always a group of 10+ boaters (if …
28
Mar
Chile! I have been wanting to take a kayaking trip to Chile since the first time I saw the Demshitz movie my senior year of highschool in 2009. I have been planning this trip in my head ever since then and this year, after graduating from college and having a full winter season at my …
10
Mar
Below: Matt Beauchamp running Puerta del Salto in the second canyon of the Rio Verde, photos by Adam Goshorn Just after dark on the day we ran the Rio Minas Viajas (see Mexico 2013 Part I HERE), we were driving down the narrow driveway into the Aldea Huesteca campground when we met a van …
05
Mar
Mexico. That was all I could think mid exam week during my fall semester at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. While other students were headed home or to the typical all-inclusive resort with the family, I was headed to the waterfall paradise that is the Tlapacoyan municipality, Veracruz, Mexico. With just a few logistics …
04
Mar
I’ve never been much of a city boy, so when I moved to Delhi in November I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. Fortunately I have been working for a sick new magazine covering all kinds of outdoors sports, had a sweet pad and wasn’t actually that far from the Himalaya. I could finish work …
27
Feb
I asked a friend a while ago when a holiday becomes an expedition – his answer was that if you come back weighing less than when you left, it’s an expedition. Whilst I like this definition, it was a moot point on this trip. There was no way it could have risked turning into an …
26
Feb
Below: Matt Beauchamp, Rio Minas Viejas, photo by Adam Goshorn From my house in Mentone, Alabama it is almost exactly a 27-hour drive to the take-out for the Cascadas Micos section of the Rio Valles in San Luis PotosiMexico. For the eighth time in the last nine years, friends trickled into my house the night …
26
Feb
Being based in Okere Falls at the banks of the Kaituna for the summer is awesome. Amazingly beautiful location, super good folks to paddle with and an amazing local run to lap and lap everyday. Besides surf within 20 minutes drive and amazing mountain bike trails in Rotorua. Amazing sunsets on Rotoiti lake where the …
22
Feb
So this year we had an amazing January and early February in WNC. During my time back around there was a possibility to do a little bit of everything. There was rain, snow and sunshine so the triple threat of kayaking, snowboarding and mountain biking were all in play. When I got back I returned …
16
Feb
It has been a few months now since I returned to the UK from New Zealand but I can’t stop thinking about the time I spent there. The first couple of weeks were spent in domestic servitude for the Great British Ladies White Water Rafting Team, at their World Championships near Roturua. With only time …