Category Archives: Creeking

Palguin Sessions

by Evan Garcia

The Palguin river runs off the flanks of Volcan Villarrica, there fore it almost always has a runnable flow. Being summer time rats here in the small town of Pucon this fits perfectly into out busy agenda. Only 20-30 minuets from downtown this river offers close reliable class IV-VI rapids for us to run whenever we want. 8am-9pm there is enough light to head to the Palguin and either run fun class IV boofs or go huge off 40-80 foot stouts! What more can you ask for?

This season the water was prime when we arrived, but has been on a steady decline from day one. This has made for a mad dash to get all the runs and levels opportunities we can in a short amount of time. Once we were warmed up with a few Nevado runs we went straight to the Middle Palguin for some test dummy action. Good lines through Stout 10 and varying lines off the big one…Aniol and I went back up for round 2! A good day of hucking for sure…a few days later Aniol was feeling Salto Palguin so we went back for a Todo Palguin! Aniol laced the stout and we went on to run the entire river with only 2 portages.

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Chile Starts off with a BOOM!

by Evan Garcia

Caracol Ian GarciaThis year Chile has been better and more sweet than ever before! Coming off a bad bad injury from a fall I took in Africa I was on the couch for a full month and a half. It’s funny how time and your personal happiness can connect in curtain ways. When you are happy time flies! When you’re not time can creep by! That’s just how the human mind works at times. Therefore when I arrived fresh out of my walking boot, I was nervous to see how I would do and so excited to get back in my boat!

First day off the plane I was greeted by Anton, Ian, and my Dad in Santiago. We loaded up Ian’s new truck and drove straight to the Rio Claro. Finding the level was still super high my nerves set in big time knowing we were gonna drop into the Garganta Del Diablo canyon and run the Twirly Bird at high flows. I felt a bit bobbly in my boat, but after the first few class V drops I was back in my element feeling good as ever.

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2011 Cévénnes area (France)

by Stéphane Pion

Cevennes KayakingI came back at home after I have spent two weeks  in the Cévennes in France (Hérault, Lozère and Ardèche area). We started this journey in the famous French gorge of Valgarnide on the  Dourbie river where we spent two days in an awesome scenery. It was the first weekend of November, one of the public holyday in France. Every year the Dourbies villagers organise the chestnuts festival; it was a good opportunity for us to join the party, eat some chestnuts cooked on the fire, drink some wine and dance… During the last days, we went on the Hérault River which has a beautiful gorge view, visited the Couvertoirade village one of the most beautiful village from XI century, then we took a breakfast in the south Mediterranean coast in Palavas-les-Flots, just before we came up in Ardèche area.

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Green Race 2011. Le jour le plus long.

by Eric Deguil

Green Race 2011 with Eric DeguilTrois courses sur la Green Race, ça fait dèjà mal dormir la veille. J’ai passé une grande partie de la nuit à me remémorer les passages et les traces que j’allais prendre le lendemain surtout en open canoë où je n’ai réalisé aucune descente dans l’embarcation.

La pression est montée d’un cran lors de l’ultime meeting de tout les participants de la Green Race. Tout le monde surpris de voir le “Frenchie” avec un open canoë en plus de son bateau long et bateau court … Heureusement, le chemin pour acceder à l’embarquement ne fait que descendre donc mon kayak long sur l’épaule, mon kayak court et mon canoë je n’ai mis qu’une heure pour rejoindre le départ.

The Box

by Evan Garcia

Evan Garcia - Box CanyonBeing a young kid growing up in the kayak scene I always looked to the top to find my inspiration. Being from the Gallatin valley there was a group of well known amazing paddlers living right here in my home town…often know as the NERPU boys!

They made films such as Nerpu, Valhalla, Weyakin, and One World. The Teton Gravity Research boys were locals in my home town! So this made it easy for a number of incredible legends and stories to come up around town. Matt Wilson, Ben Selznick, Brain Fletcher, Nick Turner, Seth Warren, Brett “Soup” Ferre, and many other good ole’ boys ripped up the best rivers and creek around Montana and the Rockies. There were two rivers that really stood out in my mind…Big Timber Creek and The Box of the Clark’s fork of the Yellowstone.

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