Road Tripping in Patagonia Chile ~ Taking the Sprinters out for a spin

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The world's top paddling links in week 52, 2011.

News Watch Road Tripping in Patagonia Chile Chris Baer (Thursday 29th) ** - Casey Tango on the first water fall of the Rio Fuy Rio Llancahue Pucon was starting to dry out and the team packed the rental truck up to get on the road heading south. It was rather late in the evening when we arrived in the Rio Llancahue valley. After a quick search for ... Taking the Sprinters out for a spin Imagine Surf (Thursday 22nd) ** - The surf is basically flat, so we took a 2011 and 2012 Sprinter, and a Speeder, out for a spin, leaving from Haleiwa harbor and heading east up the coast. It was a relaxed paddle, with much mucking about in boats, good laughs and some funny spils. But it was all in a good cause, as we were testing ... Jura area Team LiquidLogic (Friday 23rd) ** - The Jura, small area from eastern of France but they are many small rivers, we runed some classicle rivers like Saine, Ain, Anguillon, lemme but somewhere water flows in the gorges at the middle of forest. So, last week I spent 3 days in the jura area, we found two rivers, La Cimante with some small waterfall, ... River Etiquette Wavesport Blogs (Thursday 22nd) ** - A low water time of year in the Columbia River Gorge, I am reminded of the great numbers of people that manage to paddle the same river, on the same day, at the same time. Don't get me wrong... as far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier! However, it is a good reminder of the river etiquette we should all have when paddling with a large (or small) group. The White Nile… finally… (with the JEDi prototype!!) Team Pyranha (Monday 26th) ** - Within a year of learning how to roll, I put a Uganda trip to surf the Nile Special on my 'to-do' list.  For the past 3 years I have been haphazardly making plans and searching flights to Entebbe, hoping to check it all out before the dam flooded the top section.  2011 Year in Review worldkayak blogs (Sunday 25th) * - 2011 was once again a bloody big year. I headed up to Cairns to help run and participate in Monsoon Madness, the inaugural national boater cross event with the national freestyle championships tied in with it. I was fortunate enough to win the 2011 National Champion at this event and really enjoyed boating with the crew up there. Nilahue New River Academy (Friday 23rd) * - Two days after my break of stouting began we went to the Nilahue. Nilahue is an estimated 30 foot slide to a 30 foot free fall. There was a volcano that erupted recently before we got there. It brought the river up to 93 degrees fahrenheit and the level shot up. When we got there it was very brown and there was pumice rock floating around in the eddies and popping up in the boils however the level had gone back down making it more vertical. Pamela Creek - Vancouver Island LiquidLore (Sunday 25th) * - Pamela Creek is one of those tiny creeks that turns out to be really fun. It's in the Gold River zone on Vancouver Island - the Gold and its tributaries represent an unusually concentrated region of whitewater with good varitey and varying difficulties - nothing there is too crazy either. Rio Oro, Waterfalls, Ocean run out, surfing! Big Day! Jackson Kayak (Friday 23rd) * - We woke up early, before sunrise, and loaded into the vans to head about three hours north along the coast to the Rio Oro.    We have the creekboats on one van and the fishing, touring, and recreational boats on the other two.    Our hope is to do a creek run and then spend some time fishing and touring around this beautiful area.   Glenroy River in High Water padallen (Sunday 25th) * - After warming up on the Buller River in the morning, we headed back to our camp at Murchison for a quick lunch. We then set out to run the Glenroy River for an afternoon paddle. A bit of rain had begun to fall in the last couple of days, which was great as it had been dry for quite a while. Wintertime! Dagger Blogs (Wednesday 28th) * - Although it really doesn't feel like it most days here in the southeast we've officially reached Winter.  Winter brings a lot of good things but it can often be a hard time to motivate to go kayaking.  After all snow, sleet, winter mix, or rain when its 35 degrees don't really scream "let's go ... Nevado Chris Baer (Sunday 25th) * - Casey Tango putting down the landing gear at the Crack drop. Another day in paradise... the Rio Nevado just out side the town of Pucon, Chile is an absolute gem.  Villain S in Chile Jackson Kayak (Wednesday 28th) * - 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. Rough seas homemade kayaks (Saturday 24th) * - Rough seas predicted for the weekend,so we went out to see if the surfing was any good. Winter pool skills with Werner's Kelsey Thompson Werner (Wednesday 28th) * - Here is a great piece from our white water World Team Paddler, Kelsey Thompson, on how to perform your "Back Deck Roll." Whether you are a white water boater or a touring boater playing in more advanced conditions, as Kelsey explains this technique is a fast way to get kayak upright quickly. Read through this lesson and give yourself something new to work on in the pool this winter.

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