Playak News Flash 2009-05-08

Playak News Flash - May 8, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Evan Garcia: One wild week With a full circle we made our way around to Celestial Falls and saw the potential. Rush drove 14 hours to make it and on his first attempt sticks the Hail Mary, OFY.

Level 6 Blog: Airborn Athletics update The Airborn Athletics crew, decked out in L6 gear, headed up to Deschenes rapid to surf the mighty "Ruins Wave." Level was a little on the high side, but that just made everything go way bigger.

wavesport.de: Corsica Freeboat Tour part 2 After getting a taste of what the rivers of Corsica provide, our list of rivers to paddle was laid out. Our base camp was the camping grounds and lodge of local legend Minu who has been hosting kayakers at his base on the Tavignano River for over 25 years.

wavesport.de: Corsica Freeboat Tour: Part 3 One of the main reasons for so many paddlers travelling to the island of Corsica was the last chance to paddle the Rizzanese River. The Rizzanese is the most known river in Corsica for kayaking

PeakUK: 2009 GB Freestyle team selections Congratulations to PeakUK team paddlers Dave Bainbridge, Richard Chrimes and Claire O'Hara who made the GB Freestyle Kayak Team and will be representing Great Britain at the forthcoming World Championships in Switzerland in August 2009.

Fraser Valley WW: Norrish Creek owned me Norrish Creek is a classic BC IV-IV+ steep creek. I had been up tonnes of times when the water was way too low and walked to scout this gem.

Jackson Kayak: The new Dynamic Duo arrived in England for the first time Thames at a very pretty spot called Hambeldon not too far away from its more famous big brother Hurley.

Jackson Kayak: Dare to kayak New Meadows, Idaho The third grade teacher, Brent Lafay, and I took our 32 students for their first day in Kayaks as part of my Dare to Kayak drug prevention program with the New Meadows Elementary School.

Mark Basso: Bygdelva: Norway Norway's golden triangle road trip brings you through Hellesylt, where the Landelselva and Bygdelva meet each other in Norway's spectacular branch of the Storfjord.

LL Ladies Lounge: Jerrys Baddle 2009 Every year in the spring the kayakers get their long boats out and the bikers get their road bikes out and they come together.

All Outdoors WW Rafting: High weekend water for California rivers We had high water on the Merced–got up to 11,000 CFS for awhile there–bigger flows down on the Kaweah, and the Tuolumne shot up to 6,000.

WCKA Spring 09: Oregon to Washington - by Ben Stanistreet We spend most paddling workouts either on the Farmlands or the Green Truss on the White Salmon, but the Little White Salmon and Upper Wind have also been fun, after-school river runs.

Sebastian Scholl: In the Hood I never had so much fun in a creek boat until I came to Hood River. It has honestly been the best 10 days of boating in my life.

sea kayaking dot net: Repairing a damaged Hull Part 2 You need to rasp aggressively to gain access to the fiberglass mat beneath the damage on a fiberglass sea kayak. Also you need to rasp aggressively to assess how extensive the damage is

Inflatable Kayak Blog: How to get into your Inflatable kayak I was talking with a customer the other day and he mentioned that he almost tipped over when getting into his new Sea Eagle 330 Inflatable Kayak.

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