Playak News Flash 2008-12-24

Playak News Flash - December 24, 2008

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Chasing Rain: Fun Forever Many moons ago (mid to late 90's), I saw someone in a squirtboat and thought it was the coolest thing ever, and wanted one. I found a used Projet and, even though it was too big for me, I was instantly hooked. The boat was originally dayglow green, possibly a two-tone dayglow, faded to tan, with multi-color tiger stripes. Some of the stripes were faded to brown too, so I repainted them red and purple.

Got Boof?: Glade Run As many of you brave or crazy enough to face the cold weather know, the water has returned to our part of the country. For two weekends the boating in our region has presented a multitude of choices and we amongst the Got Boof Crew have taken advantage of the opportunity to bag some new water.

Peter Csonka: Swechat Wave Sessions The hole in close city Swechat have water again. After longer break we can spend some time on the water again!!! The hole need the snow melting or rains. At the water level about 160 is it nice. It's a really slow hole where is almost everything possible.

Inflatable Kayak Blog: Cold Weather Paddling: Hypothermia Hypothermia is another condition to be aware of when paddling your hard shell, inflatable or folding kayak in cold weather. Hypothermia is a decrease in the body's core temperature to a level at which normal muscular and cerebral functions are impaired. There are two kind of hypothermia, Sudden and Long Onset.

SUP Surf Mag: Stand Up Paddlers Clean Up Haleiwa It was a morning full of smiles when several local stand up paddlers gathered in Haleiwa on the North Shore of Oahu to clean up the beach and historic Anahulu River after recent winds and flooding littered the beach with debris. Plastic bags, drink cups, window screening, and a plastic bucket were among some of the garbage pulled from the river. The most difficult thing to cleanup was the irrigation tubing.

Immersion Research: Chile Update From Jared And Dave Demshitz has been in Chile for the last month and a half and have kayaked a bunch of cool rivers reppin' IR gear! Chile may be sunny mostly everyday in the summer months, but some cozy warm dry tops and splash pants are mandatory and have been keeping us comfy in the snow melt rivers of Patagonia.

LL Ladies Lounge: Merry Christmas From Oregon! Hey everyone! I just got back from a visit to Eugene and boy am I tired. My sister Kim (a former Liquidlogic lady) just had her gallbladder removed(OUCH!) and is now snoozing on the couch as I type this. Send her good ju ju if ya can afford to...she's not exactly feeling her best!

playak.net: The Descent Into Madness - Now On 'in Between Swims'.... Just posted on 'In Between Swims:The Whitewater Podcast" - Kyle Dickman of the Epicocity Project brings us a reading of his article for Wend Magazine - "The Descent Into Madness." Kyle recounts the Epicocity team's harrowing adventure in Papua New Guinea, where he and the team did the first descent of the East Pandi River.

WRSI: New Zealand Hello from New Zealand! New River Academy's trip started off on the Kaituna River. This was a completely epic run, with a fun double drop and a 20 footer on it and numerous other little drops. The run leads into the Kaituna hole, which is an unbelievable playspot.

Fat Cats: Nepal 1: Pokhara We flew to Nepal with the aim of running the Thule Bheri and Humla Karnali in one season. But as we arrived in Nepal in October we had plenty of time to go to Pokhara and do some of the classic runs in the area. Runs we were lucky enough to do included the Madi Kola, Modi Kola, Upper Upper Kali Gandaki, Marsyandi and the Seti Kola.

Canadian Ckayaker: Paddling Swallow's Island - 6 Obviously either our charts were seriously out of date, this isn't an imaginary island made up by Fowler Wright, or the discontinuity we'd passed through at the headland was more serious than we imagined. Ahead of us, spread for kilometers along the cliffs lay a magnificent sea-side city devoted, it would appear, to a Club Med lifestyle. Hotels and condos stretched to the horizon, cascading off the cliffs into the sea below. All manner of watercraft filled the bay before us.

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