Playak News Flash 2010-09-22

Playak News Flash - September 22, 2010
The world's latest paddling headlines.

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Ashlu Box Canyon and Browtin Lions Roaring Fork Kayakers - Its a good feeling when a very large mountain lion right outside your tent leaves. This is how I felt on one of the nights me evan, and candace spent in BC. After an intense game of go fish, we finally settled down to sleep at our campsot near mamquam falls. I awoke in the night due to my gypsy therma-rest deflating. I lay awake listening to the BC wilderness outside. After laying for sometime I noticed very faint footsteps just a few feet away. My mind ran.... Bear, no the footsteps are too soft(but still sounded prominent).

GoPro - Russia & Iceland Tomass Marnics - Nice video made by Sam Sutton. Enjoy!

Kim Russell, whitewater ambassador Kokatat Blog - I have been fortunate enough to call myself a native of Hood River, Oregon since June of this year. What does this mean? It means I live ten minutes from the take-out to the Green Truss, 20 minutes to the Little White as well as many other awesome creeks.

Women on Whitewater - Taranaki - Oct 2nd/3rd Cumec Magazine - The annual North Island Women on Whitewater Kayaking event (WOW) 2010 is coming to Taranaki in less than two-weeks.

Northern Lights Expedition Prepares For Phase Two Playak - Kokatat, the 39-year-old independent watersports apparel and accessories company, continues to sponsor Northern Lights Expeditions, a project seeking to establish links between children of isolated indigenous communities of the Arctic and children of the U.K., as they are preparing for phase two of its three-part service project.

Life's Too Short to Cruise – Part Two & Three Daily Paddle - Great videos, check them out!

Smelling the roses Tony Paradise - Saturday Dean, Clyde and I were in St. Philips playing in the rain, wind and waves. Dean hasn't paddled much lately and wanted an easy paddle the next day. I suggested he pick the location and mail the group. He picked Avondale and 8 of us answered the call to paddle.

Sunday, September 20th, 2010. Running fix On Kayaks - Here there is a good presentation of how to take a useful fix when there is only one identifiable seamark or landmark available in sight by using a running fix, which in essence, only asks to take at different times, two bearings to the same navigation mark, transferring the first position line at the end of the estimated position along your water track -a line that represents the distance and direction that the kayak has travelled.

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