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19
Oct

Big Day on the Raven Fork

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The Raven Fork is a beautiful class V+ tributary of the Oconaluftee river located just outside of the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. Much of the run flows through the Great Smokey National Park on the border of Tenessee and North Carolina. The take out is on the reservation at the home of Emanuel, a great friend to the kayakers who come there.The scenery on the run is unbelieveable, and if you ever get the chance to look around and focus on anything other than the continuously steep pool drop rapids, you can really feel the natural beauty! REad more and check out some pictures from the run….

 Dave@a Natural slalom gate Dave@Headless Horseman  

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16
Oct

Team Pyranha @ GBR Team Selection

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Some good results all round for Team Pyranha at the British Freestyle Team Selection events for the worlds in Canada in 2007. Read on for a full report…

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16
Oct

Moose Fest…race results, party report, and some cool pictures

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Just got back from the Moose Festival weekend.  I’m actually writing this as most people are still driving back from the Moose Fest.   It was a solid weekend, starting with a great party on friday, followed by a sweet race, then another party pn saturday, and finally some more good boating on Sunday.  The Race Results and more pictures are posted inside. 

 jeremy boofing deer

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12
Oct

Warming Up for the Moose Race

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This past weekend northern New York was blessed with the some good water and some amazing weather on the Moose River. There was a huuuge posse of local boaters, at least twenty of us. The funny thing was we all decided to paddle together.

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10
Oct

Dominica Paddling

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I just got back to the states from a sweet paddling trip to Dominica. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, Dominica is a small country in the Southern Caribbean. It the Island where they filmed Priates of the Caribbean. It is roughly the size of New York City, but it has over 300 rivers and a peak elevation of 5,000 feet. Naturally, we decided to go check out the rivers and waterfalls. I went with 3 other paddlers and a writer/photographer from Outside Magazine to see what we could find.
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10
Oct

British Freestyle Championships and Peak UK Challenge Final

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Well another weekend has flown by along with another event here in the UK. This time it was the British Freetstyle Championships held at Nottingham which was also the final of the 2006 Peak UK White Water Challenge Series.

Team Pyranha had a fairly srong showing in the British Champs with James Barnes making it through to the Semis of the Mens K1. Ben White came in 2nd in the squirt after an unlucky final ride in the knockout and I came in 2nd in the C1s. Richard Brooks did well but didn’t quite live up to his recent form placing just outside the cut for the semis.

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09
Oct

Appalachian Double-shot!

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3 days on the Green followed by a power-drive to West Virginia for a Beautiful day on the Upper Blackwater.

Go Left-Kevin

Wild and Wonderful WV

 The day before on the Green River provided some awesome pictures. Read more to see pictures and VIDEO of the gang running the Green this past week.

 

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08
Oct

Last days of summer

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Automn is slowly sneeking into the alps, but there are still some fun rivers to
run. The last two weekends I found the time to drive down there. We were blessed
with lots of sunshine and quite high waterlevels on the Ötztaler and Venter
Ache.

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06
Oct

get sum Green

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After two long days of backyard fishing on the French Broad, the Tuxedo generator is fixed now and has blessed us with two long days of backyard creeking on the Green! 7-5 ALL day. Here are some pics from yesterday of a warm sunny day on the Green.

Hale Left!  Gorilla-Billy J

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05
Oct

Green Race Training

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Hi y’all. I dug up an old Pyranha friend that some of you might remember–the Creek280. Remember when it was a short boat? Well, now its considered a long boat and I plan on racing the Green in it this year. I was really afraid of it at first because it seemed so long and pointy, but I was actually really surprised at how well it handled. I think it will be the perfect boat for me to race in–its very fast and stable without being so long its unweildy. I usually paddle a small Burn (which I agree with DMP on–its the best most ingenious boat ever and I love it!), but I have made the transition to the Creek280 for training, only to make the switch again in New York next week to the Ammo…Thanks Pyranha for so many excellent fun kayaks to paddle and keep me happy!


me training it up in the old Creek280 on Gorilla!
photo by Adam Hunter

Wish me luck!!!!!!

Andria

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