Ny's Moose River Fest-report by Werner regional Team paddler Ryan Mooney.

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Ny's Moose River Fest-report by Werner regional Team paddler Ryan Mooney. Werner - (Words by Werner regional Team paddler Ryan Mooney, photos by Patrick Rogers.  Ryan lives in Western Mass where he is an advid white water boater and super fast down hill ski racer. Shown above running the high water boof at Fowersville Falls, drop #1 on the Bottom Moose.) "All day Friday and Saturday it rained hard brining the level up. A normal level on the Bottom section of the Moose during Moose Fest is about 3 feet. This weekend it was between 5-5.5 feet.

Rio Mambukaba First Ascent - I knew I had forgotten something when coming to Brazil. When I tried to ask how long the drive would be I realized what it was: to learn Portuguese. Thanks to my "Beginning Portuguese" book I glanced at on the plane, I could at least ask our driver where the Laundromat was and count to 999 while his Land Rover bounced up the long and insanely bumpy driveway to his farm, Fazenda Bonito. This was our put-in for the Rio Mambukaba. We knew little of the river, as its first attempted descent* resulted mostly in high-water horror stories of days climbing through the jungle followed by a week on the beach, presumably mending the mental and physical anguish from the river.

Venezuela Expedition Video Team Pyranha - The British Universities Kayaking Expedition team have been back for a little over a month now, and here´s a short video of what the team got up to in Venezuela over the summer.

Scotland – WWPF 2011 Immersion Research - Every year in Scotland, the SCA (http://canoescotland.org) organises a weekend long paddling festival, the Wet West Paddle Fest. There are 2 dam releases on different rivers scheduled, evening socials, films and talks and a big raffle. All the funds go to maintaining river access in Scotland.

Travelling in Tyrol Team LiquidLogic - The Sickline Champs gathered all the folks in Oetz valley. Max and I took the chance to have all other Tyrolian rivers just for us. Some of the boys joined us and so we had a fabulous weekend with low volume creeks and some big water too. We started our tour on the waterfall fun section of Defereggenbach, which isn't the longest stretch. It's just 3 kilometers, but the drops makes it totally worth it.

Green River, VT Astral Currently - This past weekend, about 30 Vermont boaters convened for an AW sponsored FERC-relicensing flow study on the Green River in VT. The Green had been off paddler radars until the last couple years when Ryan McCall (et. al) happened to find it running one day when the power company that owns the dam was running a capacity test.

Tatlow Creek Photo Dump LiquidLore - All the words you'd want to read are here. Enjoy the photos. It's hard to capture the essences of this run in photos - if you haven't done it, it's really as good as you think it might be.

Adidas Sickline 2011 Team I-Canoe - With the Autumn closing in it was at lest time for the Sickline White Water World Championships, The event was due to take place in the Oetzal Region of Austria. For 2011 we had a group of 8 Irish paddlers heading out all descending on Dublin Airport on the same flight, some good will and helpful ...

Ecuador's Rio Oyacachi Small World Adventures - (Chris Tretwold exiting one of hundreds of steep boulder garden rapids found on the Upper Oyacachi during the 2-day run) Ecuador's Rio Oyacachi is truly a gem of a river and we are lucky enough to have it as one of our many awesome back yard runs.  What makes the Oyacachi so ...

Putting the boot in, with the new Liquidlogic Stomper AS Watersports - We've just been lucky enough to get our hands on the new Liquidlogic Stomper 80, so we thought we'd give you a quick run down on this great new kayak.

Tim's off! Palm Blogs - Our illustrious graphic designer, web guru and ever grinning colleague Tim Trew is up and away to pastures new.

Wavesport Sluice Rodeo @ Stack Event 15th October 2011 Team I-Canoe - After a long season the scores were in with all to play for in the last event of the Irishfreestyle League brought us back to Dublin well almost…… With no rain and the rearranged Liffey Descent unfortunately the ESB could not give us a flood on the river meaning no event at Sluice, so the back ...

Weekend on the Blackwater Immersion Research - Blessed with a beautiful fall weekend in Tucker County, WV. A crew of us locals cruised to get some backwater action. Sun shinning as we experienced the last of the fall foliage in 2011.

Big Winner: Whitewater Werner - Here is what Keith has to say about himself and paddling... I currently live in Seattle, WA and am a law student at Seattle University. I am originally from Germany, but have spent a significant chunk of my life on the east coast in VA, which is where I learned to paddle and still consider my home.

Masters Paddlers Set High Standards for World Championships ICF - The 2011 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships concludes its first day of races behind the backdrop of a visually stunning setting of Marina Bay, opening up the sport to a new band of spectators.

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