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Episode 7 “Minor Fails and Epic Wins”

Later E.G.

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As a kayaker/film producer I have been striving to produce professional whitewater kayaking videos, improve my editing, and my filming. These are some of my best shots from the past couple seasons.

Thanks to all kayakers in here for producing good lines to film.
Filming and Editing by Fred Norquist
Shot on Canon 7D & GoPro HD

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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.

One being a very tight manky slide with a log jam, and second is Brendan Guth’s drop on the Lower Palguin, which hasn’t been run since that tragic day. Enjoy a few shots from the 2 runs!

Stout 10…coming in HOT!

Getting mad dirty off the curling lip of the middle!

Juanito Ugarte running the middle after an exciting stout 10 descent.

Head freeze of middle with the new GoPro 2…this thing shoots amazing footage!

Papa Garcia styling in the new Liquid Logic Stomper 90…the boat looks amazing out there on the big stuff!

Aniol running stout 10 with some style…he has been on fire coming hot off a big Mexico trip.

A sick sequence of me running Stout 10…this is the scariest move offered in Pucon!

Stern mount freeze off the middle.

It amazes me to come down here year after year and continually return to this river only to find more and different personal challenges as I grow as a kayaker. I still get scared looking down at the pool while scouting the Middle, I more scared than ever of the Exportacion, and Salto Palguin is a thing of my past after having a good line last year. This has been a cool transition for me to be a part of…every year I come back a better and more confident paddler, but I always have different goals and fears in mind. Some rapids with curtain consequences that appealed to me last year could be a total no go this year…while drops I didn’t like in the past I can now see myself stomping.

Salute to the Palguin keep watching this blog as there is a ton more content to be put up and get ready for Bomb Flow TV’s Episode 6 covering the first month of this Chile trip.

Later E.G.

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.

It was only Ian, Anton, and I in the canyon and we couldn’t even get out at the lip of Caracol to shoot, but with luck my pops was on the canyon rim and caught some of the action! Check the photos…

Ian running the TWIRLY BIRD!!!!!!

Myself tucking up and running the first stout of the trip…oh such a sweet moment.

The viking Anton bombing as always. Good to be back with the good boys running the real!

The rest of the canyon was a blur of pure beauty and high water scary action!!!!! It was a truly special day for me. Being back in my kayak healthy, with my older brother, good long time friend, and running the shit in my favorite country in the world! Like sands through the hour glass so are the days of our lives!!!!! Keep your eyes on egcreekin cuz we blowing shit up!!!!!!

Later E.G.

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There it is installment number 1 of the BFTV episodes. Hope you enjoyed watching and stayed tuned for part #2 Patagonia! Couldn’t fit all the epicness in one movie. Share this movie, tell your friends, put it on facebook, twitter, let the world know about Bomb Flow TV…

Later E.G.

Bomb Flow TV will be Fred Norquist and Myself’s newest project. BFTV will be a Bi-weekly edit coming to you on bombflow.com, Facebook, and this blog for free for your enjoyment! All of our latest Chile video will be featured in the next few issues so keep your eye on the prize and get ready for some serious kayaking content coming your way! Fred was rad enough to get this thing started and put together the first video, which is the trailer, showing what this Bomb Flow biz is all about. Check it out!!!!!!

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Hope you guys enjoy the small teaser of what’s to come in the future…If all goes well we will be rolling in the cash and straight on our way to Hollywood…Shotgun!!!!

Later E.G.

There were three events;

Boater cross- Three checkpoints and cross the line at the end of Mundaca first.
Downriver- Mass start bridge to bridge race…simple!
Rodeo- Who can get the most beat down in a massive hole.

There was no training on my part, but I was stoked to try and do well, so I raced hard! There was a lot of good paddlers and a lot of competitions, but in the end it was all good times and fun! The results are as follow;

Boatercross:

1st- Santiago
2nd- Evan
3rd- Mo Mo

Downriver:

1st- Ron
2nd- Evan
3rd- Julio

Rodeo:

?????????-never found out?

Now enjoy the Photos from all the albums on facebook…most of the shots are from Fico and Pura Vida expeditions.

The Trophies for the winners of the competitions…Raft and Kayak.

A big crowd watching the carnage at Mundaca during the raft race.

Party and Bullshit at Cara Del Indio…a bunch of dirty river rats.

Tres Monas!!!! Futa is a beautiful place.

Raft race starting line…mass start bridge to bridge.

Ron Fisher beat the hell out of me in Down River race…he was talking to me as he passed.

Getting the D.L. before we started the big race.

Pure Patagonia style…lamb on the fire for 4+ hours makes one of the best party platers ever.

Team Very Good from Pucon!!! These boys were the heart of the party and race.

A small cluster of boaters at the first bridge in the Down river race.

The girls rafting teams who took top honors…the venue they put on for the closing ceremony was really outstanding! Big stage, music, prizes, and a huge discotec party!

A raft about to get punished in the big hole at Mundaca.

All of us really happy to be done with the 27+ minuet race ready to start this carrete.

Anton, Myself, and Dave in the famous dingy…same one that ran the Florin and Middle Palguin.

Myself getting bucked off a bull before the Friday night party after the race…it took me a while to buck up…but I’m from Montana so I had to give it a try.

Getting free shuttle back to the put-in…the community really comes together for this event.

A bull rider much more experienced than myself.

Mo Mo, Myself, and the winner Santiago getting our awards for the boater cross.

This was one of the best weekends of the entire season, couldn’t have been more happy to have made the drive from Pucon. Now we had a week to go around Argentina and Chile to go run stouts and find some rivers to run before returning to Pucon and then leaving back to the old USA…what was next for team siphon…who knows?

Later E.G.

Dave and Anton’s camp site with about 10 gallons of water leaking through all night.

In the morning we were greeted by some really high flows and left both the Rininahue and Nilahue with our tails between our legs. Upon seeing the sheer amount of water going off Nilahue I was ready to head back to Pucon and chill out…but right before we left the viewing platform Anton said, “What about the Florin?” I turned with a huge smile and said, “F*** Yeah”. So off we went to the other side of the lake and the Rio Florin!

Nilahue looking like the kiss your ass good bye flow…we had no problems walking away from this stout.

The florin is not an ugly place to spend a day.

El Florin is a true stoutmasters paradise! The runs starts off pretty and class IV, but then takes a turn and drops off the face of the earth through one of the most beautiful box canyons in Chile.

Starting up top there are some open boulder drops and a few bedrock slides like this one tossed in.

The first drop you get to is called El Terremoto (The Earthquake) I call it this because it is complete craziness once you commit to running it. No safety for the first guy and you never really know what is going on in there, just have to drop in a feel it out on your way down making corrections as you go. I like drops like that no really plan just going in fighting…

Dropping in on one of the most rowdy drops in Chile…

Coming out of the mayhem and about to launch the second stage.

Juanito dropping into the crack of doom at the top of the Terremoto.

We all got through the big double earthquaker just fine and were right above a great 20 foot slide to keep ya happy and not too freaked out.

Davey getting down a super clean slide.

This drop puts you in a pool right at the lip of a truly stout waterfall. I have always called this drop “The 50 Footer” I finally came to realize that it is bigger than 50 feet…no questions asked. 60 total with a big roll in ramp! Any who, you have to run or jump this drop so you decide. We had a nice rosham-bo at the lip and Juanito won so he was up first…most people play loser goes, but in our crew winner chooses and normally goes first on principle

Juanito going first on the stout…he finally won the rosh, so he went.

Dave Meyers coming back strong from his broken foot only a two months before.

We all had a good time off the stout and moved on downstream…and by good time I mean, I went over the bars and had to kick my boat back in the form and Dave swam…good times! The canyon slightly opens up and there is a possible take out option that we have been using the past few years in fear of what lay downstream a few hundred meters. 3 years back we had some issues portaging a stout dangerous 30 footer in a box canyon and Ian had to jump it and swim a gnar slide to retrieve his kayak…no one has ever run the drop and ever since then I have been hesitant to go back in the gorge…but this day we had tons of time and motivation so we went down to see what was up.

Upon arrival we scouted and right away I knew I was going to give it. We talked about safety options and decided with some serious rope work we could get some one out of the cave, but we weren’t going to need it…just in case! So I ran first and stomped a massive boof showing the rest of the crew that, “yes” it was good to go. Everyone liked the looks of the drop and gave her…all good lines, some big hits, but overall one badass first descent in our pocket.

I can’t say I wasn’t scared…it reminded me out a drop a botched in Mexico, but it looked so good I had to give her.

G-in’ out the boof getting ready to land flat.

Dave leaning it over on the Fire Berry Falls…so stoked we all got to run this guy!

Juanito following suit with some peruvian style mixing in!

Once at the bottom the river is in a deep wider canyon and turns class IV for about a KM before hitting the last crux before it flattens out for good. The last two drops are manky and scary probably would be portages if you could, but it is just too boxed in to get around either of the rapids.

Anton putting in on some logs above an interesting must run drop.

Anton at the end of the canyon with only two drops till freedom. If you look close there is an underwater rock in the backwash making for a nasty spot…but you can’t portage, so just don’t ever think about it!

Once though it’s all smiles and joy…a short walk through a beautiful field full of blackberries puts you back at the road and a short 20 minuet walk back up to the truck. The day couldn’t have been better…we had good lines and no portages…on a river like the Florin that is a statement for sure…the nice people who live at the put in also own a small hot spring, which we decided that after a day of hucking, we would enjoy for a few hours. Some blackberry/pisco mix drink later we were all fired up and ready to get back to town and eat some food…when we sat down to eat the news was on and we just saw what had happened in Japan…its funny how such a good day can end with bad news like that, but thats the way the world turns I guess???

Picking blackberries at the take out so we could make our natural beverage for the hit springs session.

Kicking it in Las Termas del Florin!!!

Later E.G.

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Watch Team Siphon accompanied by Papa Garcia roll down to the Huilo Huilo Canyon of the Rio Fuy. This late summer classic is about 2 hours south of Pucon and only runs at extreme low flows. The highlight is an un-portagable 20+ foot seal launch into a 50 foot falls. Along with that comes an abundance of class IV-V making it one of our favorite in the country. Enjoy the video from the last good day of boating from our 10-11 season in Chile. Sorry for Ian’s profanity, he needs to curse a lot when he gets out, he can’t around his 1 month old baby boy…Future Demshitz in the making.

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Hope you enjoyed the edit here and a few stills we snapped off on the run as well…

Ian bombing off the big drop, it took me a long time and good swimming session to get this front on angle. photo EG

Myself rolling down the big old blue ramp. Photo IG

Amazing place indeed this was the first run in over two years…due to high water the last season and most of this year, The Middle Fuy was at unrunnable flows for almost two years. Lucky for us it came in Late February this season and we got to reap the benefits of having this late summer classic only a short drive away. Next up comes our Adventure to Futafest this season…not a bland moment with this crew! Good times indeed.

Later E.G.