May 2008 - High Water Creeking Week
Another update from the world of Adventure Trippin, our staff and friends. The Aquabatics (www.aquabatics.com) kayak school season is now in full swing, with courses running at a great rate. This week in prperation for our upcoming Intro to Creeking course a few of us headed out to scout some runs (that we use for the course) that had recently seen near record water levels (thanks to 10 days of pouring rain). We were greeted on the first day with some incredible boating on Etherington and Sullivan creeks plus a fun high water run on the Highwood River.
Yesterday (Thursday) we went out to check out th local classic Cataract Creek, which was reading 6 (ish) on the gauge. It would appear the gauge isn't calibrated as at the put in we estimated a flow of perhaps 9-10 cms of actual water flow. This supplied plenty of juice for the run, with most of the main rapids being borderline runnable. Though the line on Hercules and Titan were certainly good to go.
I will let the pictures and captions below do the rest of the talking.....
Blair Trotman - Etherington Creek
Blair Trotman - on line on Etherington Creek
Simon same drop, same creek
Dropping into the last feature after the Mindbender drop
Matt Burton, "I don't know where my boat hs gone??"
Blair on a tight little drop - Sullivan Creek
Matt - probing the 'plug' line
A birds eye view of Mind Bender waterfall - Etherington Creek
Hercules and Titan 'juicing' - Cataract Creek
Mid portage on Zig Zag - Steve is getting ready to jump (white helmet)
Big and Burly - Leviathan in High Water
Simon only seconds before his royal beatdown in the hole at the bottom
Hope you enjoyed the pics, more to come soon, including Lundbreck falls video footage from Max and Sam.......
POSTED BY Simon Coward AT 5/30/2008 10:40 AM
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Name: Simon Coward
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Adventure Trippin Travel is a company dedicated to providing personal, unique and different adventure travel experiences. My background is one of travelling and exploring, from first kayak descents in South America, to backountry skiing trips in the Canadian Rockies, to Multi Pitch rock climbing in the European Alps. There is a plethora of companies out there offering on the bus of the bus 'adventure' travel, we try to really get off the beaten track and 'experience' our destinations not just see them. Whether you are rafting the rarely visited Mathioya River in Central Kenya, or Sea Kayaking the Fiords of Patagonia, surfing on Australia's south coast or trekking high in the Himalayas you can be sure you will have professional and knowledgable guides whi can help you make the most of your vacation experience.
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