When I was 15 I ran the top drop on the Gamlan (at very low levels). 10 years later, I was lucky enough to find good water levels and sunshine on the same day; so donned my shiny kit to run the river with nostalgic memories of Topos and Schlegels.
The gear has changed, but the [...]

Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Gear 4 Women
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After our first successful mission in the North west, we decided to focus on the Central Highlands and on the possibility of some bigger drops and bigger volume. So, it was back onto the train ready for a 28 hour journey to the city of Nah Trang, followed by an invigorating 5 hours in a [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2009 by British Universities Kayaking Expedition
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I have just arrived back in NZ for two weeks downtime before jumping back on the plane and heading to North America for more adventures. My return coincided with one of NZ’s frequent winter storms so not one to miss the chance to huck some drops I loaded up the truck and headed for the [...]

Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Ben Brown
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I have just returned from an awesome expedition in Iceland where we were filming for Rush Sturges and Tyler Bradts upcoming feature ‘Dream Result’. Along with Rush, Tyler and Patrick Camblin we headed to the Land of Fire and Ice in search of big waterfall adventures!

We spent three weeks circumnavigating the entire Island and [...]

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Ben Brown
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Hello there, so I’ve just returned from a beautiful week in the Italian and Swiss Alps. After spending a day on the middle section of the Verzasca, we stopped off for lunch on its unfeasibly large dam, before heading to the rarely run Loana and Basso for an epic day’s hiking, kayaking, and some gnarly [...]

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Nick Horwood
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Recently I returned from Uganda on a Playboating trip with Satu my wife.  We travelled very light, and the new paddle bag and River Trek dry bags from Palm were our main baggage for the trip.  Of course we took playboats, however all in all, the whole lot weighed in at 38Kg, this for two [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Gene17
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