Fall is my favorite season in New York.  Every weekend in September and October there is a great class IV/V dam controlled river to paddle on (thanks Chris Koll, Pete Skinner, and American Whitewater).  I kicked off the fall dam release season with runs on the Raquette River and Moshier section of the Beaver. 

Saturday I found myself doing lap after lap on the Raquette.  I just could not stop it was too much fun.  Sunday I ran the Moshier section of the Beaver River, which is the gem of the Beaver river system.  Sunday was the only day the Moshier section will run all year so I motivated for 3 laps down the 4 mile run.  Monday I went back to the Raquette for another 4 laps. 

 

 I only got a couple of pictures because I was too busy paddling. 

 

Next week it’s on to the Eagle section of the Beaver.  Yahoo !

Yep, that s right, we out here in Norway are always busy! This weekend the rains finaly came!!!! Yehaaar. Liz came out and we headed up to the Myrkdale River. Seemed like a good day to test a new PFD!

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Well its been the driest summer ever (except when Rob visited!!) and finally it has started raining again!!!!

Here are some images of summer fun.

                   

 

Well what a day…  Long would be one way to descibe it.   Team Pyranha had a good showing. 
Val Bertrand in womens(17th)
Jeremey L. In Mens (33rd) ANd C1(6th)
Jared Sieler (42nd)
Me (Matt Hamilton) (21st)
The levels were great making it an awesome competition.  Great to see so many people from all over the world showing off! 
I’m sure Jeremy will have some pics for you to see soon.  Once I learn how to post them I will put some up too.  For full results check out http://www.wcfkc.com/event.php?page_id=31
Later
Matt

Some people reckon that the West coast of North America is the best kayaking road trip you can do, but for me the best bang for your buck is the European tour- starting in Corsica, working up through Slovenia, Italy and France to the mecca of Norway. 

My season began in Corsica in April, through to Slovenia and France in May and June before arriving in Norway in July. Happy days!

Norway is definately one of the most incredible countries on earth, awesome whitewater in a wilderness environment. This year we didn’t make it up to the Arctic circle, but we saw some beautiful places all the same.

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Summer of work work work, busy learning how to mend people. Loads of fun but can’t wait now to get out on the river. Have been doing rather too much of this…

Now off to Norway to catch the last part of the season and do some of this…

Then slog it out at the beer festival in Munich and look like this…!

Ive just got back from a fantastic trip to British Columbia with the boys from Fat Cats Productions. What a adventure, amazing water, scetchy information, cashed cars and  the odd angry local. Off to help out with the National youth Series here in the UK this weekend as I’m not confident in Jamie’s water. We’ll see.

     

Up here in Norway, its dry, soooo, dry. It might look like it is going to rain heaps any minute, but no,, not on us. We have had another record summer, but after a record snow-lessness winter all the water has run off.

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