For years now, rumours have been flying around about how great kayaking in Turkey is and how you have to go this year because of the series of dams being built. A group of friends and I headed out there for the first two weeks in July and turns out all of the above are true.
The Çoruh River, one 19hr bus and one 3hr bus away from the capital of Ankara, is in the most amazing valley. The white water starts off fairly easy and steadily picks up pace turning into a great river. Two sections of note are outside of the town of Ispir and downstream of Yusufeli. The river gorges up for the first section with 6 good rapids, some very ‘new schoolÂ’ with a big flare move in one and another with a good boulder boof. The second has some classic big volume lines and is all good fun despite some large holes!  Â
   
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First descent of the Teigdaleselva for this season! With the sun shinning and snow melting hard we gathered a team of 10 to ‘huck our meat’ on the mighty waterfalls and slides that lay in the Teigdale valley just down the road from our summer home of Voss – Norway. Tylor Curtis and Mariann Saether happened to be in town with their crash-test dummy, Logan Grayling and we had the latest addition to Voss Rafting Senter, the ‘Italian stallion’ Michele Ramazza ready for initiation!
