vercazsca

just spent a weekend in tessin and tirol so i managed to get on the awesome vercazsca, flows were low but that was good for the lower section, would of been real full on with anymore water, sorry about photo quality, iv'e been real slack with photos and film lately.

alex probably a little more left than he wanted to be

wicked as s turn boof

funky slide thing

there was a log pin at the end of this rapid that brought closer to drowning than i would like to be

awesome slide

clean boofs

and nasty recerc!

right so blogs wont be coming for awhile but when they do the will be coming from norway so they will be freckin epic!, there are more photos on my facebook page if you want to check them out

cummerbrucke dam release

just 45 minutes from my house is one of austria's most premiere kayaking runs the cummerbrucke on the enns.......unfortunately it has a dam on it, much like everything that has more than a slight trickle running down it here in europe!

fortunately we have had some very strange weather here in wildalpen resulting in 2 days hard rain which meant that we had a dam release! 

i have to say that this section of white water has been one of the best i have ever paddled, not incredibly challenging probably class 4 but steeper than your average river, it has everything from tight squeezes to  drops and cool rapids, if you ever have the chance to paddle the cummerbrucke with anywhere between 20-50 cumecs you are in for an absolute treat!

enjoy!

short but sweet, this river is stacked with drops

dropping into sweet as s-turn

this feeling is just great

getting mad bow air

lukas getting his boof right, if you don't this has a tendency to back loop

georgie nails his line on needle ear (1 metre squeeze)

been dry here all spring so it was a real treat to get on some quality whitewater, looking forward to norway! photos from vacazsca coming soon

untertalbach

so i just got back from switzerland and i finally got round to getting the pictures from the untertalbach! it was a pretty epic creek, unfortunately i took a swim and my boat (by which i mean the boat i borrowed) went downstream without any air bags and put 2 huge dents in it......so now i own a huka! hopefully might be able to get ahold of a  mini mystic for norway though!

getting burly

line looks really good here

but not so much here =/

damn

so more photos from the verzasca and cummerbrucke to come!

check out the video from untertalbach here untertalbach video