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18
Dec

Burning Around Ecuador

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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!
Ecuadorian Kid in Small Burn
Photo by Bryan Smith

Boof left or consequences on the Cheesehouse section of the Quijos
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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17
Dec

Some shots…

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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.

 

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08
Dec

Billy Jones checkin in

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Hey everyone, its asheville nc based pyranha kayaker billy jones here with some photos to check out.I look forward to using the team blog to spread the word on some new adventures soon,but for now here are some shots from the past on rivers and creeks all over the U.S. and Canada,including vancouver island, bc and classic high sierra overnights in cali!!!!! I in most shots am in a burn m,or the m3 233,hope you like them and thanks!!

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07
Dec

Sunbury Ninja,

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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

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04
Dec

4 Gates & a Sailing Boat. It Could Only be the Hurley Classic!!

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After much debate as to whether the event was going to be on or not, finally the time came for the Hurley Classic. A mixture of gates, some amusing classes and some good friends made for a great event.

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01
Dec

Bus Eater… November. What’s with that!!

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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

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30
Nov

Weather

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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.

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28
Nov

C1 River Boating Makes a Return

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With all the rain last week and having seen the pics from Ben’s outing in the Recoil, I hooked up with a few friends to hit some rivers up in Northern England.

Unfortunately, the water appeared to have been and gone so all hopes of some really nice runs went out the window. We ended up hitting the River Allen in Northumberland and even though it was a total rock avoiding mission, it was still a nice little warm up to the season. It was really nice to get back out in my C1 Burn and it’s now given me a real taste for hitting more rivers this winter.

This weekend is the Freestyle event at the infamous Hurley Weir so it’s time to get the 4 Twenty back out and bust some big moves….

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27
Nov

Monday Morning…

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Now there are some other contraband Kayak makes in this littel film, But it dose show a good mornings paddle down at Shepperton weir.

Enjoy!

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27
Nov

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Hi everyone!

Creeking in Quebec is alot of fun and a local TV show called “La nouvelle école”  (the new school) took creeking as one of their show topics. 

This show was on air for a week in a large par of the Quebec Province, Canada.

If you wanna see a part of the show you can go to this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV9VKC_iZQY

and you’ll see 5 minutes of it.  It will give you a glimpse of what creeking is like back home!

Blanche river

 I love the Burn!

Have a blast!

Dominic L

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