Here are a couple of photos from the Pine Creek Boatercross

Headed up the tracks for another round in the Medium Karnali.

Geoff and I battling it out through the crux move of the race.

Fibark is off and running here in Salida. Thursday’s Pine Creek boatercross started off the week with a bang.  Boatercrosses are always fan favorites but the Pine Creek race mixes it up with a giant stickey hole thrown in the middle to keep things interesting.  Definitely the most exciting boatercross I have been a part off.

Team Pyranha had a strong showing again this year in the race.  The Karnali and the Burns were definitely the most popular boats out there.  Everyone started out with a time trial run to cut the field to 16 and seed you for the very important starting positions.  In the time trials Calhoun was Second Dave Fusilli was Third I was fourth and I think Jared Seiler was 6th.  Jeremy And Nicole had the crowd favorite time trial runs with some impressive hole surfs!

After the first two rounds and a little controversy the finals were set with 5 of us.  It was a close brutal battle from the beginning to the end.  Headed into the last move into the finish line I was in the lead with Calhoun and Brian Kirk just a few boat lenghts behind.  I caught a weird surge above the boof into the eddy at the finish line and was forced down low in the eddy allowing Kirk to sneak in for the win.

Final Results:

1st.   Brian Kirk

2nd.  Josh Bechtel

T3rd  Jared Seiler

T3rd  Geoff Calhoun

5th    Dave Fusilli

Thanks to CKS for organizing the Race.

Stay tuned for Photos of the Race and more action from the Freestyle this weekend.

and searching for new stuff in BC.  Go figure – everything is high as hell and we are forced to run gorges and falls with more than ideal H2O.  But it’s goin sweet from the 68 degree, blue sky, BC hellf@#K forests!   Check the pic of Pyranha paddler, Corey Boux and myself scouting the mandatory exit falls on a stout gorge in an new gem up here. whew

– Cody checkin out and back to filming for HUCKIN HUGE‘s upcoming film.

Here’s a little vid of Lime creek.  This was about an hour and a half hike in for five good drops.  Thanks much to the new and super bad ass Pyranha Portage Pack… it made that shit pretty nice.

2nd Gorge of Lime Creek Video right here mutha %$#@&*

  

 

The last week Nicole, Jared, Myself and many more have been livin it up in Durango Colorado.  We arrived on Tuesday and headed straight to Bakers box.  A committing gorge with a stout hike in and a very very angry land owner.  The next day our good buddy Kevin Driscoll lead us up into the 2nd gorge of Lime creek.  A pretty stout hike to a another committing gorge with 5 great drops.  The tallest of the five called Viagra, about a 25 footer.  We shot a good bit of video on here but I don’t think I have any pics.  Stay posted for a video of the Lime creek.  The next few days where spent hangin out in Durango’s sweet playpark  for the Animas River Days, also Demshitz had a great Video Premier at Ska Brewing.  Saturday and Sunday I hung out with a fleet of demo boats from Mild to Wild rafting a new Pyranha dealer in Durnago.  If your in the area come check out Mild to Wild whether your looking for a new Pyranha boat or looking to raft several days on the Upper Animas.   Also on sunday Demshitz did a little freestyle competition with Jared ending up in 2nd myself in 3rd and Nicole taking the win for the females.  Sunday night we drove up the valley to the very clean and fun Vallecito creek.  We ran this sunday night, camped at the camp ground, woke up this morning, hiked up, and gaver again.  We are now driving back north towards Salida Co for FIBARk……wish us luck!  

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It took a while to pull together, but here’s a little video I put together with some of the footage we shot in California this spring, featuring the South Fork of the Middle Feather, the Middle Feather, Pauley Creek, and the South Yuba.

California Creeking 09 Video

   

Since Todd already posted on the Creekin at the Teva Mt. Games let me fill ya in on some freestylin.
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