Playak News Flash 2010-01-24

Playak News Flash - January 24, 2010

News Watch Headlines

Mt. Hood H2O: Skate Park Creek Eventually we reached some class four slides and we were quickly at the lead in to the Quarterpipe. We went for a long scout hoping to find Shane, no dice. After an hour or more of scrambling around, scouting, sitting, and looking for Shane, we decided to run the lead in. At this point I had opted out because of the close proximity of "The Well" to the Quarterpipe drop.

Dave Hoffman: Euphoria Falls I paddled Hagen Gorge, a fun creek just outside of Portland. I took headcam footage of one of the larger rapids, Euphoria Falls. You'll find the video unique. It captures a particular aspect of whitewater kayaking running drops on verbal beta.

Seth Ashworth: Pyranha Molan I paddled the boat at Shepperton weir, it was on a nine gate wave, which wasn't the greatest level but gave me a good chance to see how the boat surfed, how loose it was, speed on the wave and the boats ability to accelerate.

Mt. Hood H2O: Hagen gorge alternate access/first raft decent Just downstream there is a weir hole, one of our members swam out of it, so don't take this benign looking hole too lax. Running center left worked for the rest of us. Then we were at Teakettle.

Fraser Valley WW: Lost Creek, Mission, British Columbia There is potential for three runs on Lost Creek, one run above the one we ran, and even a short but very committed run below where we took out. The run below would start with an optional 40 foot waterfall.

homemade kayaks: Big Mess If I had to grade today I would guess its force 4 to 5 on the Beaufort Scale, that is winds of 17 to 20kn, waves of between 1 to 2m, paddling is difficult with paddle flutter expected and difficult to go against the wind, according to Gordon Brown in his new book the limit of adequate reserve in these conditions is 2 hours.

Wilderness Systems: Tarpon 140 Took on Hurricane and Lives to Tell About It! On December 31st, 2009, one of our customers retrieved his Tarpon 140 that had been lost during that storm. He had only had it 3 months at the time the storm hit.

playak.tv: Adrian - Kayak Surfing January 2010 Footage from the last 3 sessions in my composite Element. All surfing done without fins.

Simon Willis: Blue Peter Presenter to Kayak the Amazon The 2010 mile distance is rather appropriate given the year. That's how far Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton will kayak down the Amazon River.

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