Playak News Flash 2010-02-28

Playak News Flash - February 28, 2010
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Adrian Tregoning: Sungai Lambai – Jungle Creek! Part 2 I went up and got into my boat. Hugh gave me the signal to wait and I assumed Andrew was getting into position to video and for safety, as the next rapid was just below. My heart started beating while waiting around. After what was probably less than a minute I was given the go ahead and dropped in. It was one of the more intimidating rapids that I've run but I felt good. I lined up and boofed into the pressure area and charged out no problem.

Adrian Tregoning: Sungai Lambai – Jungle Creek! Part 1 Thursday, 19 November. Breakfast was some cake type stuff, and something similar to what we called vetkoek, neither of which appealed me so I wolfed down some monkey nuts and that was that. It was partly cloudy and quite hazy, it looked like it was to be a hot day. But no matter, another day of excellent kayaking lay ahead of us!

duemmstuff: The Last Day in New Zealand We had to climb into a dry river and wait for the water release. It wasn't the nicest feeling when an alarm on the dam went on. But it sure was spectacular as the water started to swarm in over the rocks and make them into some threatening rapids. When the river was at full flow we only had little time to scout the first rapid. It was huge, but we had no time to hesitate. We decided to run the right line, which isn't so commonly run.

Dagger Blogs: World Class Kayak Academy: Chile 2010 Spending the last four weeks in Chile as a student at World Class Kayak Academy has become one of my better life experiences. Aside from being able to kayak amazing rivers every day, I'm studying in one of the most beautiful and culturally rich areas of the world.

Dagger Blogs: Nat Geo's Monster Fish of the Congo show now on iTunes! For those who have been looking for a way to see the TV show we did for the National Geographic Channel on the Congo River, I have great news! We just found out that it's available to download from the iTunes store in its entirety for the first time ever.

Palm Blogs: NSR 2010 – The boat is made! The UK's National Student Rodeo 2010 is only 2 weeks away, and each year Palm Equipment make a custom NSR Kayak as the prize for the winning uni's Club.

Nantahala Outdoor Center: 2010 Pyranha Burn The boat front surfs easily and spins well if you're into that. As Jason mentioned, it climbs over rocks so well that you might think it has an auto-boof button built in. With just a paddling jacket on, I couldn't convince myself to do roll practice in the Nantahala, aka.

Kokatat Blog: Grand Canyon of the Mad River Only two known prior attempts have been made on this isolated twenty-five mile stretch of whitewater, one resulting in a hike out in darkness, and the other taking 3 days to complete. When Ben Stookesberry called the night before our descent with ideas of tackling the Grand Canyon of the Mad in one single day, I thought hard and long before committing to what I knew would be a difficult but significant undertaking.

Roaring Fork Kayakers: Hood River: another sick weekend After a nice run on the Truss, we started an evening of debauchery. The world class crew reunited had a killer night, needless to say lots of brown dancing went down. We awoke the next day not feeling incredible, but we still rallied to go do some kayaking no doubt. We checked out money drop, a nice 50-55ftr with a crazy fast lip.

Dagger Blogs: Mapping the Mekong to Protect Fish This 11km wide section of waterfalls at the border of Laos and Cambodia plunges 45 feet through a maze of vertical waterfalls, flumes and cascades:some runable, many terrifying. While descending the runable parts of the falls was part of our mission, finding the best way upstream was our ultimate goal.

Liquid Projects: A Marsh Winter Here's a short video of some highlights of one of many sessions at Marsh Weir this winter.

Ross Herr: My Custom SUP project As a college student this SUP will be built on a budget. For blanks I am using 3 pieces laminated together of DOW polystyrene purchased at the local hardware store. We bent the rocker into the tip and tail during the lamination process.

SeaKayakPhoto.com: The Bogle Hole, Colvend. Once through the narrow cleft in the rocks we entered we found the most delightful hidden cove backed by a lovely sandy beach.

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