With the end of the school year, I found myself with a couple of mid week days free so a plan was hatched with fellow Pyranha Team paddler Dave Fairweather to sample a few rivers in the North Alps. After flying into a small airport in the south of Germany, Dave and Bex picked me up and we made the drive over to Upper Bavaria.

The plan was to do the 4 classic runs in the area, nearly 40 km of grade 3 (with a few harder rapids) and a lot of driving in between rivers, in one day. First up was the Rissbach, a grade 3 river with two grade 4 rapids.

Dave on the pre breakfast run on the Rissbach (Photo Bex Pipe)

Next up was the wonderful Upper Isar, which you can only access by Taxi. This provided a nice scenic paddle, that consisted of pleasant and completely straight forward low volume grade 3.

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The first week of may, i was in Cap Vert to run …a volcano !

It’s not a joke. Since two years me and my friends organize this adventure.

 

My first goal was to down it with the snowboard slalom french champion, Camille De faucompret. A fucking goor ride! And the second, brake a speed record.Unfortunatly, after tree attent. My REV was craked !

– 60km/h, not very fast but so dangerous.

 

To stop my run, after tree attent, i had only one solution to stop my speed. In rock place…

70 m in this rocks was the last solution. You know why the boat is dead…

A film is coming. The teaser is here.

 

Volcano Ride – The Teaser from stephanie augras on Vimeo.

See you!

TUG BOAT ACCIDENT- DEMSHITZ SAVES THE DAY!
After a few days of great surfing at Skookumchuck Narrows in Egmont BC, Demshitz witnessed a tug boat accident at the wave during slack tide. Team paddler Dave Fusilli paddled out in his REV to attempt to save a man trapped in the tug. Everyone was OK and the tug was pulled to safety before the rapids of Skookumchuck swallowed up the wreckage. Demshitz are heros!

This past weekend was Potomac Fest- the mid-summer classic, hot weather, humidity, water so warm it’s not refreshing at all, slimy, slippery rocks, and long days of all sorts or competitions.  Despite all that, Po fest remains popular, with people turning out for the Great Falls Race, squirtboat, freestyle, old school wave surfing, boatercross….. This year was a tad cooler and less than years past, and the getting splashed with water was actually a bit refreshing.

Boofing off the classic “Spout” drop during the Great Falls Race.

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Click to view webisode 1 – The making of Haymaker

HH FILMS is proud to announce our next full length film, HAYMAKER ! This smash hit film will be released world-wide in 2010, featuring an array of Pyranha kayaks!  Ammo, Burns, Karnalis and Everests…

For now, follow the behind the scenes footage of The Making of HAYMAKER. These webisodes will air ‘semi-weekly’ on HUCKIN HUGE.COM ! Check out the first episode as we follow the crew and athletes to Summit Creek, Washington for the first descent of a massive falls!

Last Saturday the first invitational boatercross race at the Eiskanal took place here in Augsburg as part of the slalom worldcup program. Organized by Arnd Schaeftlein and Jakobus Stenglein, incredible paddlers like Mike Dawson from NZ, Dejan Kralj (SLO) and Fabian Doerfler (GER) took part and fought for the 1st prize: a sweet mountainbike! In the end, it was taken home by slalom local Hannes Aigner, who had a stunning final. I myself couldn’t start due to my injury, but took the job of the starter and enjoyed watching the race – just like 1000 (!) other spectators. Wolfgang from Kanu Treff equipped most of the starters with Karnali’s and Burn’s to help making the event a success, which in the end definitely was the case. Now we’re looking forward to more of these races here at the Eiskanal! Here are a couple of shots.