14
Jan
While everyone is travelling around to warm climates and tropical destinations, I have been braving the winter up here in New York’s Adirondack moiuntains. We started off with a ton of snow in December and the early part of January. Last week’s warm temps and rain opened up some January paddling for those that were tough enough to handle the cold.
13
Jan
I have been teaching for World Class Kayak Academy this year and one of my students Jones Cochran put this video together of me from the first semester. We spent time up on the Ottawa, Lachine, The East coast, Zambezi and White Nile. We are off to Chile in Mid January.
Check it out
Video link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6pURBiceTo4
13
Jan
I made a little video of some freestyle material of the last two years. Check it out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kPyI75fxXnU
08
Jan
In December, we headed down to Mexico to teach creeking for two weeks at the Huasteca Secreta resorts in San Luis Potosi state. Here are a couple of pics from two of the rivers – the Ojo Frio and the Cascadas Micos. All of our students had a great time paddling the fleet of Pyranha boats that we brought down there – Burns, Everests, and Ammos.
To view the full report and all of the photos, go to RiverGypsies.com.
Dooley Tombras on the Ojo Frio
Photo by Leland
1 Small Burn, 1 Medium, 2 Larges, and an Everest!
left to right: Brian Plant, Dan Thomas, Tracy Hancock, Tom Wittekind, Tobin Doyle
Photo by Leland
06
Jan
Dave Fusilli hucking the STOUT 70 on the Middle Palguin
We have been in Chile for a little over two weeks. We have done some amazing runs, and some of the best kayaking in one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever been. Pucon has been our main base, but with the water just about run out here we are getting ready to head south to the infamous Rio Futaleufu. Check out a video of the rivers and waterfalls we’ve run in and around Pucon.
20
Dec
On the 19th Nov a team of bald explorers, including Shalabh Gahault, Mike Abbott, Sam Hughes, Zak Mark, Sangrup (our driver from Ladakh) and myself loaded a jeep in Katmandu, Nepal and set course for Gauhati in Assam. 4 days later Andy Phillips arrived and they headed into the hills of Arunachal Pradesh aiming to complete several sections of un-run rivers and expecting to be challenged with situations requiring extreme bravery and ingenuity.
18
Dec
10
Dec
Once again it was that time of year to compete for a place on the GBR Freestyle Team. The purpose of the event was to select the team for the 2008 European Championships to be held in Galicia, Spain next July so as you can imagine, the competition was tough. The event was split into two events held over the two days at two different venues, Hurley weir on the River Thames and the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham. Having decided after that last European Championships to retire from OC1 competition I was only competing in the C1 category in the new Rev M.
