Sun 13 Nov 2005
Sometimes you just get lucky! As paddlers proliferate, classic first decents are becoming more and more of a rarity in the world-at-large. However, once again, our beloved Vancouver Island has come through for us! (more…)
Exploratory Tales
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Sat 12 Nov 2005
A group of us, including Alastair, Dave, Tyler, Kevin, and me, had spend a couple days kayaking rivers around Comox. We paddled the Cruikshank and the White river canyon at still good but rapidly falling flows. The promised 50+ mm rain suddenly turned into “sunny with clouds” in the forecast so that the prospect for a kick-ass creeking-weekend was bleak. Not for long though. Pretty soon, Dave dug out Jeff Strangs phone number (more…)
Tue 5 Jul 2005
Exploratory run April 2005
…this sunday was the first day ever that the word “extreme” stomped through my brain for hours and hours. Sunday was probably in the top 5 days of my life. It ties with another paddling day from 1994 as the most exciting days of my life. Instead of just normal adrenaline which (more…)
Fri 24 Jun 2005
What a day. Classic Canada West Cost exploration. So Shayne had scouted the upper Oyster here on Vancouver Island and said good things about it. The best was that it looked like it could be run very low, down to 10 cms. Now this is pretty critical since here on the Island (more…)