Playak News Flash 2008-12-04

Playak News Flash - December 4, 2008

News Watch Headlines

CKS Squad: Far Northern Bc The author on the first slide. Corey Boux Photo After our trip down the Grand Canyon of the Stikine, we were able to get on a cool river just outside of Terrace, BC. Take a look on a map and find Terrace...it's out there. And the general feeling you get while paddling some of the local creeks is of isolation. This particular river or "creek", The Khtada River, required a half an hour ferry across the Skeena River and then hike up the creek for roughly 2 hours.

Werner: World Class Kayak Academy Explores Mexico Werner team member Whitney Lonsdale has been on the road in Mexico for two months with World Class Kayak Academy. WCKA is a small, traveling high school for students who are excited about individualized education, whitewater kayaking, and cultural exploration. During each semester they travel one quarter in the US and Canada and one quarter abroad.

rockratrobinson: When There's Water... A couple of shots featuring your's truly from the UniYaker selection weekend courtesy of Tim Burne

Werner: Werner Team Paddler And French Champ, Mathieu Coldebella, Sounds Off Here is a post from Mathieu Coldebella, Werner Team Paddler and French Champion about travel and competing last season.I'm a student in Materials Engineering in Chmbéry, French Alps which is a really nice place to be and practice a lot of sports. I especially paddle but I like very much snowboarding, long boarding and climbing too. Beside my studies I need a job to pay my journeys and life things.

The Water Cycle: Upper Lucumayo River Zak on the Lucumayo Following our Mapacho expedition, we had a long journey back to Cusco. The last leg of our journey was an afternoon bus from Quillabamba to the big city. The route took us further up the wide Urubamba River for an hour or so before the road splits off up a side canyon to go over a pass. Driving up this tributary, we were all pretty intrigued to see lots of continuous, apparently runnable whitewater.

Team Riot Kayaks: Check Out Paul Twist Ever since I took my first kayaking lesson, I have done nothing else. I have been with Riot for a while now and I have traveled allover the United States and Canada in search of the best whitewater. I currently teach at Lock 32 whitewater park in Pitts ford, NY and run my own kayak school, AER Kayak Academy.AER provides the next step for kids who outgrow the programs at Lock 32. We travel to rivers as far south as North Carolina,and as far north as Ottawa in order to give them experience on more rivers.

wavesport.de: 3 weeks in Kenya, by Mat Dumoulin Because there is not just Uganda and Zambia to go to in Afica, David Arnaud, Marc Girardin and I decided to go boating in Kenya last month. We saw a...

Evan Garcia: Thanksgiving Hucking For Thanksgiving we went to our home run here in Pucon Chile, the well known Palguin. With a good crew of folks we ran the Upper and lower run... with a portage of the scary middle we ran like 2 weeks ago. While on the upper run Jared and I fired up the nasty portage once again... Jared went first, plugging deep and pulling some sort of sick donkey-panam-spiderman flip off the 20 footer.

Tribe News: Rupert River 05/07/2008 - One of Canada's largest rivers, the Rupert drains lac Mistassini into James Bay in North West Quebec. The Rupert was used as an important trade route dating back to 1668 and in recent times has been a favorite multi-day wilderness trip among recreational canoeists.

Canoe Kayak: Aire's Web Revamp AIRE is working to create an online community with the the new site, allowing for both new and existing users to post pictures and videos of their boats in action.

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