Beaver-fest – Labor Day Weekend in NY ~ Debs’ Norwegian Top Three.

Playak News Flash - September 13, 2011
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Beaver-fest – Labor Day Weekend in NY Dagger Blogs - Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of the Fall boating season in New England. There's boating all summer, but as the leaves start to change and 'peeping' season begins in earnest, the rain starts to actually bring rivers up for more than a few hours at a time. I've been to the Labor Day ...

Debs' Norwegian Top Three. thebigbluetree.com - We arrived in Norway to see it experiencing its one in fifty year flood, which made Hedmark a very fun place to start our Norwegian adventure, with big long bouncy wavetrains and large holes. The aim, after a few days in Hedmark, was to head to Telemark then up to Voss via the Zambezi section ...

Lachine with the boys! Level 6 - After a quick stop by the Level Six office to say hello to the boys we rallied all the way to Lachine where we spent Saturday and Sunday paddling the crap out of all the waves there. The icing on the cake was that we had a Jet Ski thank to Sam and GP who are the reigning locals there. Thanks boys for a great weekend!

The Trollcanyon of the Susna and Laksforsen revisited Sweet - This year´s rally to the north happened in early august. There are a couple of reasons for that: First, the moskito population is rapidly declining, the water is low, and the crowds are gone. The north has become a popular place to go these days, and according to the local farmer at the put-in for the full descent of the Susna, they have been swarmed with kayakers in Hattfjelldal this year. He thought it was great, as he and the family got used to walking to a view point of one of the classic waterfalls on the Susna to watch the show whenever the kayakers put on.

Ottawa River Festival Sweet - The first weekend of Sept. played host to the Ottawa River Festival. With hundreds of kayakers gathered on the Ottawa for the warm water and perfect water levels it was the perfect weekend to host a Freestyle Competition. All classes had a good number of participants as it was the last days for the OKS Keener Program as well as some of the Kayak Academy's were present.

Blowing off the cobwebs at Borthwen Will Herman - The morning after the day before... and a dramatic view of Rhoscolyn Beacon in storm force winds. Volunteers manning the watch tower on the hill above, confirmed the wind speed as high as 57 knots, (actually just inside the F11, Violent Storm category), though the average wind speed ...

Surftember Spectacular 03/09/2011 Palm Blogs - The day began with everybody thinking that the weather was for once going to be very nice. We all met at the car park for 8:30 and the sun was already out and it was very warm. After the briefing at 8:45 the first heat got on the water for 9:30. I had hours before [...]

BBC Live'N'Deadly & UK Freestyle League Win! Palm Blogs -   Live'N'Deadly On Saturday morning myself and the GB Youth Rafting Team were guests on BBC2′s & CBBC's Live'N'Deadly Tv show, a great show promoting Adventure, Nature & Wildlfie. Presented by Steve Backshall & Naomi Wilkinson. Check out the show on the BBC I Player link below:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b014smh7/ It was actually really fun [...]

Canadian cup 2011 Aniol Serrasolses - Yeah life is still as great as always in the Ottawa valley! Last weekend was a busy one, we had the Canadian cup in Garburator wave. It was a bit foamie but lots of people show up to give their best, there was a lot of level with competitors all around the world. Everybody did great with many spect...

G or B Rolling and Rescues Day Mark Tozer - On Sunday, I met up with Claire and Dave at Summit to Sea  on Anglesey for a one day coaching programme. Claire had contacted me about putting something together for the pair of them in order to build up boat confidence after a break from paddling. It was great to be able to offer ...

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