Playak News Flash 2009-02-20

Playak News Flash - February 20, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Aquatic Evolution: At The Clark Fork River, Spring 2008 The river is high this week; high for the last four weeks. Almost the color of chocolate milk, and running now with a visible determination to get downhill—downstream—home—it swirls and gurgles and trips over itself.

Rapid Transit: Kayak Flim "The Eddy Feeling" Premiere This time around the big screen is going to be pumping out RT's freshest product, The Eddy Feeling, as well as my NZ Video Journals.

WCKA Spring 09: Athletics- Upper Moon Gorge Of The Mekong By Jason Cohen The group relaxing between rapids.  Photo by LJ Groth. Under a delicately suspended wooden bridge, 18 kayakers balance on a steep rocky bank in an equally delicate manner.   Welcome to the put in for the Upper Moon Gorge of the Mekong River.   Surrounding the put in are acres of terraced farmland pushing high up the gorge walls.

DeRiemer Adventure Kayaking: Ecuador- Feb. 7- 15 class IV- The trip that did (almost) everything. Seven days of paddling, 4 different rivers and 6 different stretches.

Irish Freestyle: 2009 Kayak Intervarsities The Freestyle & Slalom events of this years kayak intervarsities takes place at Sluice, Lucan this Sunday 22nd Feb from 9am-4pm.

Markus Leppaenen: Christmas At Hairy Lemon After New Zealand in `99 this was my second hot Christmas without snow. Always a hard decision what to do in the winter-holiday, as I love skiing but paddling in winter with warm air temperature and as now in Uganda even really warm water is just fantastic as well. Such a good feeling to paddle with as little kit on your body as possible. Often it is so warm, that you just wear your PFD, spray-skirt and a boarder-shorts.

All Outdoors WW Rafting: Kaweah River Rafting The Kaweah's class IV rapids and technical hydraulics create excitement every spring and is one of our guides' favorite springtime runs.

Werner: Nikki Kelly Shows Why She Is So Inspirational My summer has been full of slalom training. Kayaking five days a week on the Kaituna river, policing the scene, flashing my smile at all the locals and the visiting boaters.

SUP Surf Mag: Is the 9'34' Sub-Vector by C4 Waterman Just Hype? According to Dave Parmenter this is "probably the most advanced high performance short SUP on the market."

Jackson Kayak: Pakistan, Indus River - Day Fifteen Water ramped through a narrow section of river and pulsed over haystacks, plunging over a mighty folding ledge sending all surface water into the wall.

paddling.net: H-I Recovery As with many of the draining methods the HI got it's name by the configuration of the kayaks during the draining process.

Fluid Kayaks: Why paddle? - Celliers Kruger From a purely practical point of view, paddling is great physical exercise. Get in a kayak, any kayak, and get going. It is a good workout. However, on the complete opposite side of the same coin, paddling is a spiritual pursuit. Not so much the paddling itself, but where it takes you.

SeaKayakPhoto.com: Scarp, A Kyles Too Far And A Phone Too Few. Crossing the Colas an Scarp we made landfall on the island of Scarp. Although the distance across the kyles is only 430 meters, the shallow channel can be very turbulent in wind and swell conditions. The islanders felt very isolated when they were marooned on the island for long periods.

Kayak Session: Doug Ammons Slideshows UK Tour He will focus on the beauty of kayaking and the history of the Grand Canyon of the Stikine, one of the hardest runs in the world.

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