California

(Photos by Martin Norment)
North Fork of the Feather
The NF Feather was a great introduction to California granite. After two months in playboats it felt good to finaly get back into creek boating mode.


Nate Garcia


Ben Hurd

Kaweah
After our Stop on the Feather we headed out for the Kaweah to take 'er home on some steeps. Here is a sick little Kaweah video update done by Jones Cochran. The footage is from the Chuck's Drop section. Sorry, no Hospital Rock footage we didn't take any time to film it.


North Yuba
After a brief stop on the American for some playboating we headed towards the Yuba drainage for some more crik boatin. Today we ran the section below Love's Falls on the North Yuba. The run was fairly steep with some quality drops. Here are some photos. We put in at the bridge and ran down to Sierra City.


Davis Gove


Dave Zinn


Davis Gove

Chile

(photos by Martin Norment)
Our first stop in our 2 month journey was the Rio Maipo. A high desert river forty five minutes out of Santiago. The Maipo is continuous class III-IV and provided a great jumping off point from our month long break of kayaking for the year.


Josh Bechtel

After a long drive we arrived at the Siete Tazas or seven teacups in Spanish. These seven drops were carved out deep in an amazing gorge.


Dave Zinn


Jones Cochran

The most anticipated stop of our trip was the town of Pucon. Legends have it that this area was created by the kayaking god Rahkma Kahn for the sole purpose of hucking sick drops every day. The town is located between an amazing lake and the most picturesque volcano in the world, Villa Rica. We spent most of our time on the Upper Palaguin with some runs down other runs such as the Trancura and Liacura.


Davis Gove


Josh Bechtel

A short drive from Pucon led us to the steep and clean Rio Fuy. The run started out with small class III creeky and slowly culminated to a steep section consisting of a 20 some odd footer and a couple 10 foot boofs.


Nate Garcia


Martin Norment

Our last stop was the Futaleufu river in southern Chile. This area is considered the gateway to Patagonia and is full of huge volume rivers towering mountains and vast glacial ice fields.


Nate Garcia