Kayaker Pulls Diamond from Pocket and Proposes on Green Narrows after Rescue

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News Watch Kayaker Pulls Diamond from Pocket and Proposes on Green Narrows after Rescue Pucon Kayak Hostel - And it was there… just below Gorilla on the Green Narrows… in the middle of the river… amid a tangled mess of rope and hope… a kayak full of water, bobbing precariously close to a sieve… one hand holding hers, the other, a ring… she finally said the word I was anxiously waiting to hear… "yes!" Coquihalla Canyon – Rambo Country Rafting Life - After another day of playing on the Chilliwack river doing Swiftwater Rescue, it was time to head off to #rambo country aka Hope, BC. The reason rambo comes up as this is where 'First Blood' was filmed in 1982. Having driven the Coquihalla highway a number of times, it was nice to finally drop into the section below the Othello tunnels. These five tunnels were built to accommodate the Kettle Valley Railway Grade which was built in 1914. CLASS V NOTCH SPLAT ON GORILLA – GREEN RIVER NARROWS CKS Blog - I've said it once, and I'll say it again – class V downriver freestyle is where it's at. High consequence, bad ass, old school downriver freestyle. This video is a little bit grainy, but you can still fully see Pat Keller splatting the Notch of Gorilla on the Green. It's tough! 10 Easy Ways To Become A Better Paddler unsponsored - When you sart your paddling career progression is often very rapid. Skill acquisition is quick and you develop the technique required to safely get you down a piece of water. After you have been paddling for a while it is easy to hit a plateau. Moving past this can seem quite difficult but a few changes or adaptations can help you to continue to make progress/develop. Consider where you mainly paddle. Change venue if you can. Try a new piece of water. Paddle more. It's a simple step that can really speed up your progress. Get some professional coaching. Picking up or developing bad habits is very easy. Having an expert look at your paddling technique could speed up your paddling development rapidly... Getting Out of a Rut: a Kayaker's Guide to Getting Back on the Horse Chris Wing - Kayaking is a fickle beast. Okay, okay allow me to rephrase. The River knows no dominion, and as hopeful explorers we will discover this for ourselves sooner or later. We're merely along for the ride until the River decides we are in need of some serious humility. Kayaking on Idrija river playak.net - The spring is always very early here, in the Soca valley, in Slovenia. Last weekend we were expecting some rain, and one for our friend, Bojan Rušjan told, if we are lucky, we can try to paddle on Idrija river. It is a small creek on the border of Italy and Slovenia. Close to the Soca valley, Idrija is one of those creeks, which is possible to paddle only after a big rain. The Diesel 80 - Revisited Wavesport Blogs - If I were told that I could only have one kayak to take with me for a full year to paddle every river in Costa Rica, the choice would be too easy. Very Chill Summer Mike Dawson - Since the Australian Open in Jan I have spent a lot of time out of the boat and off the river. In October I got a tendonitis that was pretty bad in my wrist. A side effect of paddling a lot for the last 14 years. With some great treatment and some injections into it I was able to race selection in January and secure 1st boat on the NZ team, thankfully, as there isn't a Pre-Selection basis on medical grounds. Oceans of Whitewater (Part 4) Jackson Kayak - What, you may ask, is a pour-over? The short answer is riding a wave over a rock. I'm going to give you a longer version of the answer however and seek to de-mystify this apparently dangerous and flamboyant maneuver that combines the thrills of sea, surf and whitewater kayaking in a fusion of judgment, timing and skill. World's 13 Legendary River Trips Northwest Rafting Company - When guides banter around the campfire, conversation usually turns to the biggest, baddest river trips in the world. Although everyone has their favorites, the list of legendary rivers is almost always the same. Presented below is a list of those trips. Viking Canoe Polo at the Essen 4s PeakUK - Viking A travelled out to Essen in Germany a few weekend back to take part in one of their favourite tournaments. Although they were down to only four players due to injuries and travel issues, four could be enough for this four-a-side fast paced version of the game. A 3D Printed Kayak – Believe It Or Not Inflatable Kayak Blog - There's been much excitement generated in technical circles in recent years by three dimensional (3D) printing. The applications for manufacturing and medical uses are revolutionary. Norrish Creek – The Classic Rafting Life - When I first started paddling in Alberta, came back to BC, and found a copy of 'Topo Country'. It was on a VHS tape and had sections of rivers in Whistler, the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island all run in Topo Kayaks. Within those sections was Norrish creek. Substantial TV Episode 7 "Squamton" unsponsored - In the far north lies the place with glacier fresh Kokanees, Tim Hortons, and some of the best whitewater on planet earth. This episode features the whitewater close to one of our favorite destinations, Squamish BC. The locals call it SQUAMTON! With footage from rivers like Ashlu Box Canyon, Mamquam Falls, Lions Bay Slide, Dipper Creek, and Fear Canyon of the Elaho let this episode guide you through a whitewater paradise ... Uganda and my winter travels Palm Blogs - This winter I had to leave the UK, so we made plans to head to warmer counties. In January we went for a little off the water trip to Cyprus for a few weeks, which proved to be a very nice and cheap destination to go for the off season holiday, we did some filming for the donkey sanctuary there and lots of driving around, the Island is small, but very beautiful, and food is very good here, it also seems to be a very good destination for sea kayaking.

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