Playak News Flash 2009-02-10

Playak News Flash - February 10, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Adrian Tregoning: The Upper Bushmans River – A park-paddle-hike-paddle-huck-paddle-back-down Mission The following morning the sun shone brightly against an azure blue sky and altocumulus clouds looking down on us. The air was already warm and slightly humid and the camp site was deserted bar one other tent. There were no mechanical sounds to be heard, only the peaceful hum of the nature around us. This was exactly the type of place I could perpetually sit at, and just exist. I basked in the rapidly building heat and thought back to the previous days' mission, and of the drive into the camp. We were lucky to see several small antelope as well as a massive spiral-horned antelope known as Eland, truly majestic creatures. As these thoughts drifted away they were quickly replaced with what the present day would bring. Day 2 of the trip had already started at 06:00am – it was Thursday 20 November 2008.

Team Riot Kayaks: Upper Cherry Part 2 There's nothing like waking up below Cherry Bomb Gorge, wrapping your mind around what you have run and what you are about to.

Rapid Magazine: New Steep Creek Discovered A small paddling crew consisting of Bryan Smith, Todd Gillman, Shane Robinson and Chris Tretwold discovered an impressive new steep creek in the Squeamish / Whistler area.

Fluid Blog: Nile Special Session... After spending 2 months in my creek boat out in Nepal it was great to get back in the Nemesis and throw it around on the Nile.

LL Ladies Lounge: Celestial Falls Part II We had so much fun that day and hope to get back there sometime soon, it was scary slick. If you head out there, be safe and have fun!

Roaring Fork Kayakers: Rio Fuy The Fuy is one of the classic beautiful chilean rivers. It's source is another beautiful volcano, and a mountain lake. It is big volume waterfall style, especially when we were there, the water was a juicin'. It starts out with some class 4ish rapids with a few pretty large holes, then goes into the waterfall section, with a stout 4 foot ledge, then Leona, the tallest of the waterfalls(about a 20 footer) with a nice 10 directly afterwards.

Potomac Paddlesports: Great Falls: Streamers for the first time Today, Geoff Calhoun, Nathan Sass, and myself got out to the falls for a nice chill run down the falls. Me being a righty c-1 I decided to skip Grace today, and just run the ledges and the streamers.

wavesport.de: Whitewater Chile Guide Wave Sport Team Member Tyler Curtis has participated in the just-released Whitewater Chile - A Paddler's Guide to Chile.

Freya Hoffmeister: Day 21, Sunday, 08.02.2009 (online By Freya) The launch proved to be tricky on the surf beach, as a strong side wash and surge pulled me sideways on the first try, and for sure I had to get a full cockpit of solid sand water on jumping out and straightening the boat.

Rapid Magazine: The Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour Premiere The Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour premiere February 5, 2009 in Waterloo hosted by Princess Cinema.

PeakUK: Teva Extreme Outdoor Games 2009 After seven editions of Teva Extreme Outdoor Games, 2009 will bring big changes in the event, changes that will make it grow and get better than in the past.

Paddling Instructor Blog: ALERT NWPA Amendments Introduced Today Under the guise of the 2009 Budget Implementation Act, the federal government has introduced amendments to the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) that will have serious negative impacts on both the acient public right of navigation in Canada and on the environment.

Canoe Sailing Mag: Convince Me I follow the America's Cup race each time it occurs and was fortunate to be able to attend Australia's defense of the Cup in Western Australia where the Perth Yacht Club hosted the race off the coast at Fremantle.

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