Playak News Flash 2009-07-08

Playak News Flash - July 8, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Immersion Research: Toxaway perspective This river blew my mind when I first paddled it, and things haven't really changed in there. It is still one of the most high quality runs you can do anywhere, there are very few places on earth I would rather be.

LVM TV: CO Update: Castle Creek and South Fork Crystal We decided to go on an adventure over Schofield Pass and do a little park and huck on the South Fork of the Crystal. The upper reaches of that drainage are a beautiful area.

Jackson Kayak: Upper East River Upper East River was a mile low class IV run, and was really easy with Clay leading the way down. We did two laps and didn't stop at all on our second run. And it was over in about 5 minutes. But it was a lot more fun just bombing down and having to remember the lines.

Tribe News: First Descent of the South Fork Signor Mangaa The river runs through the celebrated Belum rainforest which is said to be older than both the Congo and the Amazon and which boasts over 800 species of snakes, along with bears, elephants and tigers. The only way to the put-in was through a maze of muddy logging roads that run around the mountains high above the river.

PDX River Explorers: An afternoon on Rock Creek WA. The first good drop on the run is a clean 10 ft boof. The drop had two new small trees in the river right side of the pool below the drop, but they were easy to miss.

Whitewater-Koa: Tunnel drop This is an interesting drop because it once used to be a waterfall but the train needed to go over it so they dug out the river above and made a tunnel for the river to go through and the train now goes nicely over where the waterfall once did.

Am. Whitewater: July volunteer of the month presented by Kokatat John did the tractor work spreading gravel and brush-hogging to help, along with others, in maintaining the Upper Yough access area. This acess area, owned by the State of Maryland, has been maintained by American Whitewater volunteers for the last 8 years.

PaddleBlogs: Surfing for best My thinking was that "a surf session on a small wave was better than no surf session at all". So in spite of the doctors orders I took the medicine, stuck in my ear plugs, I ignored my ear infection and simply hoped for the best.

Werner: Family SUPing Stand Up Paddling is a great activity for the whole family. The kids would play in the sand, swim out to the floating doc, and paddle the stand up board.

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