Playak News Flash 2010-06-20

Playak News Flash - June 20, 2010
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Video: Tanya Faux - 2010 Steep Creek Championship at the Teva Mountain Games playak.tv - A short video featuring Tanya Faux from the Bud Light Lime Steep Creek Championship at the 2010 Teva Mountain Game. Faux finished in first place for the women on 6.3.10 up at Homestake Creek. The Teva Mountain Games are a project of the Vail Valley Foundation.

Summer fun on Soča Gene17 - Every year from mid August, the River Soča plays host to our second run of teaching trips in Slovenia. The prefect clear blue water with it's boulder garden white water, lends to one of the very best paddling classrooms around. It's a near unbeatable spot to develop confidence and be introduced to the very finest of new school kayaking technique. The pristine landscape adds a wonderful back drop along with fine food and great beer, Slovenia has everything for a great paddling holiday.

Summit Creek, WA Sweet - Summit creek was discovered last year by a young group of Washingoton brothers known as the Wells Bros. They live in Trout Lake only 5 miles from the put in of the infamous Green Truss run on the White Salmon and have been searching the area for little stashes like this. The basic deal with this run is that, you need a bit if rain to pump the normally dry river bed up to enough water to scrape down this high mountain drainage ditch. Once you get the water you need it is an amazing place with two very steep and clean basalt gorges to run.

Video: Andrew Holcombe - 2010 Steep Creek Championship at the Teva Mountain Games playak.tv - A short video of Andrew Holcombe from the Bud Light Lime Steep Creek Championships at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games. Holcombe finished second for the men on 6.3.10 up on Homestake Creek. The Teva Mountain Games are a project of the Vail Valley Foundation.

Video: Tao Berman - 2010 Steep Creek Championships at the Teva Mountain Games playak.tv - A short highlight video featuring Tao Berman from the 2010 Bud Light Lime Steep Creek Championships presented by Thule at the Teva Mountain Games. Berman finished 3rd overall for the men on 6.3.10 at Homestake Creek. The Teva Mountain Games are a project of the Vail Valley Foundation.

Yule Creek Sweet - Couple of days ago I got off work and that was the right time to meet up with Demshitz crew to run something big. We met up in little town called Marble close to big Colorado mountains in Aspen area. After last week when was rainy and cold, it finally got sunny and warm again. We couldnt have a better weather for our run on the Yule creek.

Iceland sweetness... Sweet - I simply love this barren island to the west of Norway. Extreme conditions all around, yet with people that always seem lighthearted. Being norwegian I guess I feel related to the icelanders, seeing that a lot of norwegians moved here during the Viking age. Fleeing the politically unstable Norway, they settled on this windswept island of fire and ice. And big waterfalls..

Upper Blackwater; Revisiting a West Virginia Classic Fluid Blog - In the state of West Virginia, the Upper Blackwater is as classic of a steep creek as it gets. There are 62 major Class 5 rapids in the 2.5 mile run through a beautiful canyon. The run features more 4-8 foot drops and boofs than any other creek in the area and also runs fairly often. So it's a wonder that it had been 3 years since the Dogg had paddled that run. For years, it was one of my favorite runs and I logged somewhere around 100 runs during the period before 2007.

Powers Outdoors' Employee Demo Day Draws One Conclusion: JACKSON KAYAKS ROCK!!! Jackson Kayak - This past weekend was Powers Outdoors annual Employee Demo Day. Powers Outdoors is a Jackson kayak dealer in Michigan, and sells kayaks from all 3 of its locations. "This is the our chance to get the staff on the water so they can try out all of the boats they will be selling throughout the summer," says Jacob Slominski of Powers Outdoors, "lucky for us, this is our homework.

Kokatat Supports The Kamchatka Project Playak - Kokatat, the 39 year-old independent paddle wear and accessories company is proud to announce their official sponsorship with The Kamchatka Project. Bryan Smith, a long time sponsored Kokatat Team Member, will lead an expedition of six Whitewater Kayakers as they explore the Siberian mountain landscapes of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, one of the last truly wild places on earth, in an effort to raise public awareness of the complex relationships between the place, its people and its fisheries.

Videos from the WC1 & WC2 Daily Paddle - The International Canoe Federation (ICF) have published these two videos on their Youtube channel. A total och 50 minutes paddling entertainment.

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