A First Person view of the first C-1 Decent of Sahalie Falls

The Mackenzie river- on it lie two enormous 80 foot tall waterfalls, each with its own quarks. In the snow covered parking lot of the Sahalie Falls overlook we met up with two Kiwi’s on their way up from a mission on Fantasy Falls in California. Our crew was made up of myself, Galen Volckhausen, Hunt Jennings, Dylan Thompson, Chris(who’s last name I am not sure of). It was sleeting out and miserable, but we put on our gear anyways. We tied our shoes, tightend our life jackets and hiked towards the first waterfall of the day. We spent very little time scouting Sahalie Falls before Galen decided to fire it up; he went over the handlebars and ejected, but he and his boat floated nicely into the eddie- though his paddle floated downstream not to be seen again. None of us were very fired up at that point, so we decided to hike down to Koosah Falls in hopes that it might speak to us a little better.

Hunt Jennings nailing his line on Koosah Falls

We Hiked the ¼ mile with our boats to the lip, after scouting it from top to bottom, then bottom to top Hunt decided to fire it up first, followed by Dylan, Galen, then Chris. Everyone had great lines. Though I really wanted to run the drop, I was definitely not feeling it.

Jordan on point at Sahalie

I was feeling a little downtrodden, thinking I wasn’t going to be boating today. Though on the short hike back to Sahalie, I imagined the line over and over in my head. Once we got back to the overlook for Sahalie I had made up my mind. I told the guys that I wanted to run it and Galen said he would do it with me… for the second time. I took my time scouting it, making sure I could see myself exactly where I wanted to be. I grabbed my boat and hiked past the entrance rapids and put in to ferry across the river, then hiked down to the put in eddy. I went to the lip to scout it for the last time and watched Galen roll off for his second run of the day. I could see what I wanted to do so I took one last peak and strapped into my boat. I pictured my line one more time, then turned off my mind and went. I could feel that I was on line, though my bow was a little up, but I just stayed where I was. My bow fell slowly and I could feel everything lining up. I hit- I felt a slap to the face but other than that it was quite soft… for an 80 footer. I came out of the mist upright and stoked. It had been a great day.

Jordan P

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Well we built out the first production Liquidlogic Stinger out of the aluminum mold and I just had to go get a run in. Its been 5 years in the making. It felt great to be in a production boat. Stiffer, better outfitting, silky smooth shell, bomber security bars, etc.. it just felt fantastic and paddled great. Here is to many more runs in the future.

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Puis au moins Mai 2012 nous avons était faire un ptit weekend  en Italie dans le val d’Aoste sur L’ayasse ou nous avons rencontrer Tim Starr un canadien, puis fini le weekend en beauté sur la riviere Grande Evia est son  enorme slide de fin d’une vingtaine de metres.

Voici quelques cliché du périple Italien

Apres ça se fut le drame !!! Nous étions partie en famille dans les haute Alpes mi Mai sur le rassemblement de la BFK, les niveaux d’eaux étaient superbe et le soleil avec nous. Nous étions parti avec Raph et Bebert sur une des magnifique rivieres de la région et malgré les 25 années de kayak derriere moi, j’ai raté un stop au dessus d’un infran!!! J’en suis resorti avec un épaule déboîté que j’ai pu remettre de moi même sur le bord avant d’aller au urgence de Briançon…

J’ai donc passé quelques semaines de convalescence a la maison avant de reprendre doucement la rééducation puis le sport.

Cette période fut longue mais ma permi d’organiser la prochaine expedition qui trottée dans ma tête depuis septembre 2011 suite au salon paddle expo en Allemagne.

Quelques uns des meilleur internationaux du kayak freeride avais dans l’idée d’aller faire la Riviere Langu Khola qui coule au Nepal a plus de 4600 m d’altitude, plus précisément dans la région du Dolpo pres de la frontière Tibétaine.

Une grosse incertitude planée en moi a savoir si mon épaule aller être remise pour cette expédition de plusieurs semaines en autonomie au milieu de nul part…

Pendant quatre mois je n’ai cesser de faire des exercices avec et beaucoup d’assouplissement, je gagné en degrés semaine apres semaines puis je me suis remis a courir, faire du velo ainsi que  quelques marche en montagnes comme le dôme des écrins a 4015 m pour voir si la condition et si l’altitude était ok pour moi. 

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 The Green Truss – Substantial TV from Substantial Media House on Vimeo.

Later E.G.

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 Substantial TV EP. 4 “Balls and Elbow Pads” from Substantial Media House on Vimeo.

Later E.G.

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Produced by Substantial Media House: Fred Norquist; Evan Garcia
Additional help from: Eric Parker; Erik Johnson; Kyle Hull; Galen Volkhausen; Matt Baker; Rush Sturges
Shot on: Canon EOS 7D; GoPro HD2

VIVA LA AGUA BLANCA!!!!!!!!!!

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As part of making Legacy Paddlesports the sweetest place to work on the planet, we plan to enrich our offices and factory inside and out with Art that evokes our love of  Water, Rivers, Kayaking and of course, Liquidlogic Kayaks and Native Watercraft. We want to surround ourselves with the work of others who draw on the paddling environment as a key source of inspiration.  We hope to create a workspace that will keep us fired up to imagine, design, and build the world’s greatest boats.  Hence: this Art Proposal.

Our Committee will consider works:

• in any medium
• in any style
• with content connected directly to paddling or evocative of its elements
• in any scale…. do note that we have a large space and will certainly welcome large scale proposals

Complete applications must include the following information:

• Contact Information

• Work Samples in the form of jpgs, url, snail mail, or bring it here to the factory.
• JPGs representing an existing work or works that you would like us to consider
• Resume or Bio

Deadline for Submissions: May 1st.
Final Projects Deadline: July 15th;

Artists will be compensated with one Native Watercraft or Liquidlogic Kayak (not including the Pedal Drive boats).  The Legacy Paddlesports Gallery Committee may consider other compensation at their discretion.

Contact:
Shane Benedict, Curator, Legacy Paddlesports Gallery of Fine Arts
shane@legacypaddlesports.com
℅ Legacy Paddlesports
210 Old Airport Rd.
Fletcher N.C. 28732

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After this one, the spring came and trip to Italian and Swiss alps was ahead of me. We spent there about a week with little bit lower flows but nice weather. Classic rivers were on order like Egua, Sermenza, Ribo, Versazca etc. All worthy rivers where you can spent days having fun. I also manageed to screw up one line, got beat down and swam after 6 years of not needing to pull a skirt. So booty beer was waiting for me

Sermenza playground

Ribo big slide

After alps I had to spent some time at school, so I could leave soon for Norway. Norway is always great but last year was just epic, it was my fifth visit and I’ve never experienced anything similar. During 2,5 month stay we managed to paddle most of the well know rivers and some new ones. Specially during last week of June, the flows were extremely high. Have to admit it’s pretty scary to paddle high water Brathseth, which is steep and have massive pourovers. Check out this last edit of our Dagali cowboys small series, it’s worth seeing all the videos from Rocks and Water production, they do a lot of great things, so check it out.

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After return back home the paddling got quite slow, because of school as usual. But luckily I managed to pull one week in Austrian alps on Oetz river, where Adidas Sick-Line race is annually held. I did quite bad during the race, but it was great week anyway.

Drop called Champions killer on Wellebrucke, Oetz, Austria

Rest of the year I spent back home in Prague, studying and training at Troja Slalom course with some trips to Austria. Anyway, new season hasn’t started here yet, but small creeks sometimes do run during heavy rain falls and temperature above zero. Hopefully all major creeks should be in by March/April. I can’t wait for another year, it’s killing me not being able to kayak often. Also my plan for season 2013 is finally set –  Europe during spring with some shooting for GoPro in Italy and Swiss alps.Then I need to finish school asap and leave for US. I’m hoping for good snow pack there, because 2 years ago I didn’t manage to get to California which is definitely on the wish list. My base will be Payette river in Idaho, so you can expect some juicy big volume paddling there. Keep the finger cross.

Some fun on North Fork of Payette, Idaho

Stay tuned, there will be more to come this year

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