In November I accompanied a group of students on a 10 day expedition. They are 1st year students of Outdoor recreation , and most have started kayaking this year.

We walked for 5 days over a couple of peaks, and reached the headwaters of the Clarence river , then spent 5 days descending the 200km to the ocean in high water.

the team.

In the mountains we had some beautiful weather, and summited 2 peaks.
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I have been taking some downtime lately, due to a leg injury and operation that went bad, but in the re-hab time I have completely rebuilt my www.riverkore.com site.

My aim was to make to update able by all of our riverkore team and present it as a showcase of our adventures.

You will find image and video gallerys, which I am trying to fill up with all kind of images that have been sitting on my computer for years doing nothing! You will also find articles from past expeditions, with accompanying galleries and some might even have a video clip.

If you register on the site you get a few features, you can abuse us with comments! (be nice or I delete you:-) You can also add to discussions on any article that has been posted in the forums to discuss.

You can comment on images, send e-cards and there are a few wallpapers around.

So go have a look, have fun and have a great xmas, you guys in the USoA, Happy Hollidays, some one told me the other day American dont say ‘Merry Christmas’

Have fun

After a record setting Fall of floods here in the Northwest, my wife Lise-Anne and I decided to escape the short days and cold water of BC and head south to Ecuador for a month. This was my first trip to South America and it could be best described as a posh boating trip or an adventurous honeymoon depending how one looked at it. Lise-Anne and I decided that what we wanted more than anything after the September Skookumchcuck wedding was a boating trip somewhere away from North America and warm. We decided on Ecuador and it was amazing!

Photo by Bryan Smith

photo by Lise-Anne Beyries

The Eastern Slope of the Andes in Ecuador is loaded with classic day trips that provide ample amounts of whitewater ranging from low volume creeking to large volume river-running and play.

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Gradually winter is arriving here in middle Europe and therefore there’s not too much paddling action possible here at the moment (unfortunately I don’t have a ticket to the southern hemisphere or something like that this winter…). So I decided to put a couple of pictures of last season onto the page.

 

 

With the Thames still flowing high & Shepperton rather washed out,  me and Jon headed of to Sunbury for a black ops secret ninja paddle.  The water was high and to enter the wave took some imagination, we got there in the end ;).  Then off to wwtcc for tea & work

 

Hey Paddling world,
Seems that global warming has hit the Ottawa Valley.  Should be skiing by now.  But it was 10 degrees and sunny.  So off to bussy! 
enjoy,
Matt

 

Just A quick note to say were still waiting for the weather to clear down here in Queenstown, New Zealand. Wet does not do the discription justice. The rivers are  rather high, with the shotover usually rafter at 50 m^3 and it currently on around 500m^3 and summer starting offically tomorrow we will see if the sun starts melting the fresh snow.