New England Fall Wrap-up ~ Palguin Sessions ~ Chile ~ on the road again...

Playak News Flash - December 12, 2011
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New England Fall Wrap-up Dagger Blogs - It's been a terrible fall for kayaking up in New England. All the rain the normally falls over the course of a few months decided to fall over a few hours, devastating Vermont and NH and making for a horrible kayaking season.

Palguin Sessions Evan Garcia - The Palguin river runs off the flanks of Volcan Villarrica, there fore it almost always has a runnable flow. Being summer time rats here in the small town of Pucon this fits perfectly into out busy agenda. Only 20-30 minuets from downtown this river offers close reliable class IV-VI rapids for us ...

Chile Sweet - After almost two good months in Mexico, Aniol and I decided it was time to leave this country filled with waterfalls, sombreros, tequila and tortillas. After a hectic travel from Mexico City thru Panama, where we almost lost our flight due to all the quite girls, we reached our final destination this season: Chile!

on the road again... Dagger Blogs - After running the dirty Gerd we jumped on Evan and Anton car "blue balls" and droved straight to the nilahue, the most perfect slide/waterfall in the World. All the area is fucked because of the eruption of the volcano Puyehue, it all started on the month of June and still going on strong.

Paddling New Rivers to Help your Progression from Class IV to Class V Small World Adventures -  Joey picking his way through one of the many boulder gardens on the Lower Cosanga. We had a fired up crew of boaters last week, and they were a cool group to watch progress.  All of them had pretty strong Class IV skills and they are all pushing into the IV+ and even V ...

Big Thompson and Pacific Northwest Videos Leif and Natalie - I've been slaving away nonstop, only taking breaks to eat and go to the bathroom, and I am happy to report that the video edit from the Big Thompson this fall is finally done. The Big Thompson is one of my favorite training runs. It is far more difficult than it is dangerous,..

Kayaker Chris Korbulic Returns to Africa to Confront the Unknown First Ascent - Forging ahead in Zambia, Chris Korbulic asks: Why do this and what do we want to accomplish? The plane skids and I lurch forward as the wheels hit the ground and the reverse thrust kicks in to slow our careening down the runway before pulling into a rather arbitrary gate. The heat hits me even though I'm three seats away from an open door, the bright African sun is beaming in through the dust, and soon I'm standing out in the red African dirt. This feels right.

Still Boatin' Wavesport Blogs - Hey Fellow Paddlers.. I thought I would drop a quick BLOG to keep folks informed on what is happening on the Ottawa River. As we move deeper into the fall the River has become empty other than the odd car load of Saturday paddlers.

Wapwallopen Creek Demshitz - The Powder Hole. Thundering through the woods of northeast Pennsylvania,there is a creek called Wapwallopen. That's Wap-wall-open. I call it the Wap for short. It's near the town of Nescopeck,which is known by whitewater kayakers as home to the Nescopeck Creek,a popular novice training creek and a small slalom training course. The Wap dumps into the Susquehanna River,"Pennsylvania's river" and 16th largest in the U.S.

A little madness on The Mersey Will Herman - Shoulders hunched against a bitter wind coming in off the Irish Sea, I stood with hands stuffed inside my B.A, waiting for a lift with the boat down to the sands. I sensed a sidelong glance from a lady walking by:"your brave..." she said. I looked at the sea and shivered. "Daft is probably ...

Girls at Play Internship Opportunities! Girls at Play - Do you want to improve your teaching and paddling skills while traveling with some of the country's best instructors?  Or learn more about the inner workings of a small paddlesport company and help it grow while learning new skills?  Or all of it?!  Check out our 2012 internship ...

Villain S New River Academy - Its Easy to Apply to New River Academy. For the past 3 weeks I have had the privilege of testing the Villain S out in Chile on some of the worlds best creeks. When it comes to technical fast moving waters where you need speed and precision to hit that last second boof, the Villain S is the way to go. In any high volume run your going to want more volume in your boat.

WaveJet Propulsion System SUP Surf - I recently met Mike Railey (CEO and inventor) of WaveJet and he showed me some of their prototype boards which uses the WaveJet Pod propulsion system. This is basically a small jet engine that attaches to the bottom of a water vehicle. Check out the video below where Mike explains the WaveJet Propulsion System [...]

2011 Fenn Cape Point Challenge Preview surfski.info - More entries than ever; the most women paddlers ever; eight of the thirteen previous winners…  And this for one of the longest, toughest surfski races in the world.  The 2011 Fenn Cape Point Challenge kicks off at 05h00 on 17 Dec, 2011.

Harry & the Queen CackleTV - This week I made a rare visit down to London town to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace for people involved in Adventure & Exploration. I knew a few other people who had been invited but I wasn't really sure who else would be there [...]

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