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Rafting Life: 2007.12
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Friday, December 21, 2007. Every couple of years this a course that needs to be redone. Just arriving home from India for Christmas, and leaving for Chile at the end of the month, I saw that Raven Rescue was running a course on the Nanaimo river. Though not the warmest location in the world, it would get me certified through 2010 with Rescue 3 International. With the opportunity to audit the course for free within 3 yrs. Setting up rescue systems. Typical mechanical advantage system, or Z drag. With a bu...
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Rafting Life: Guided Rivers
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Rafting Life: 2007.07
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Thursday, July 26, 2007. Lower Green and Rutherford River, July Mission, Whistler BC. Old Blue, Truck that Paul Kindly lent me when I was in Whistler. Great for early morning Kayaking Missions. 8am at the Put in for the Rutherford. Photo by Max Kniewasser. After getting some paddling done on the Vancouver Island. I planned to head over to Whistler to catch up with a bunch of the lads and lasses at Wedge. When I got a ride up and we drove over the Callaghan river. Max Kniewasser about to head off down the...
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Rafting Life: 2008.01
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Friday, January 25, 2008. The South America Chapter. Author, suited up and on the way to the office. After spending christmas at home in Canada. Seeing the family and hanging out with friends and doing a few runs down the lovely Puntledge. River, including one run on the upper section, which has 9 beautiful slides and drops. After all the fun and festivies where over it was time to pack the bags again and make for the south. Destination the Futaleufu river. The Rio Manso trip is about 100kms from Bariloc...
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Rafting Life: 2007.09
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Thursday, September 27, 2007. London to Leh, 2nd Zanskar River Trip. The shirts they had made for the trip. This season was a good one. Getting onto two trips down the Zanskar River. The second one was with a group of kids from the Laburnum Canoe Club. England. They where aiming to be the first group of youth to kayak/raft down the river with the youngest one 15 and the oldest 19. They had the past year raising 24000 pounds to get the eleven of them and there 3 leaders over to India. Sanjay, Sam and one ...
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Rafting Life: 2007.10
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007. Kayaking Road Trip, Alakanada Valley. From L-R, Author, Kanhan Singh, Phil Carrivick at the put in of the Pindar. THE PINDAR AND UPPER ALAKANADA. This trip we keep talking about at camp. It got sorted out when I visited Rana with a bottle of 15yr old Dalwhinnie. Got him to check the schedule not once, but twice, thus giving us a total of 3 days off and secured a jeep and driver for the trip. The next afternoon at 2pm we were off. It was a seven hour drive to Karanprayag. To mea...
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Rafting Life: 2007.11
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Sunday, November 11, 2007. Kali Ganga, another paddling trip.almost. The boys, Myself, Andi, and Kanhan. Last week, we had a bit of slow time at Aquaterra. So sitting around the campfire. Sharing a bit of rum we made a plan. Andi, Kanhan, and myself decided to go and check out the upper part of the Mandakini river. We got our hands on a map of Uttarakhand. And saw that a road ran up to the town of Kalimath. Figuring that this would be a good place to start, we hired a car and headed off. We arrived downs...
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Rafting Life: 2007.06
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Ucona River, Vancouver Island. Jakub at the put in for the Ucona. Off to the first drop. The morning of Sunday, was an even later start. All good however as the river was only 15mins away. Had a great sleep under a picnic table testing out my bivy. In the west coast rain. It worked well both nights keeping me totally dry and warm. Run we where off. The last comment I remember was it should just take us an hour! Looking at my altimeter. At the end of the trip it was cool to see h...
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Rafting Life: 2008.11
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008. Fall Time Paddling, Vancouver Island. Two weeks ago we had a bit of rain on the Island. It was warm, so the rivers picked up with lots of water. The Puntledge was having a release due to this and it's main tributary was running as well. A number of paddlers were in the area from Victoria, the Valley, Nanaimo, Europe and NZ. When BC Hydro releases 100cms for two days. Fall time has arrived. Checking the Level, also good to look here. Short hike in from the parked car. Photos by...
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Rafting Life: 2008.05
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Saturday, May 10, 2008. 4th Annual Puntledge Festival is coming up. 1st drop of Stotan falls at the festival release level. Pic by Shayne Vollmers. Here is something to mark on you calendar for the end of May. The 4th Annual Puntledge Festival takes place in the Comox Valley on May 30th -June 1st. This is a great time to meet up with old friends and try out one of the top rivers on the Island with guaranteed flows thanks to VIWPS. You can see an article here. Surfing it up in Tarp and Play. We spent a co...
