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My film fest entry for the Harpers Ferry Outdoor Festival Film Fest. The video is not complete, as I only had 3 weeks to work on it after recovering the video from a hard drive failure back in October. Be sure to check out the finished piece in a month or so.
Grand Canyon of the Clore in beautiful BC. Super amazing fly-in multiday out of Smithers into Bernie Lake where you start your descent, awesome!
Name: Nick Pearce
Location: I split my time between Somerset and Voss, Norway
I have been paddling for the last 11 years and during that time, I have been lucky enough to paddle in some of the coolest locations around the world from the UK to Chile, France, India and New Zealand. My personal favorite and the place that constantly draws me back is Norway. It’s a land full of amazing rivers with still so much undiscovered potential. For the last 5 years I have spent my life working as a raft guide which allowed me to be closer to the river and to get as much boating in as possible. I also have the pleasure of being supported by some of the best companies on the market: Zet UK, AS watersports, System X and Silverstick.
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Over the last two summers Todd and Brendan Wells, along with local Matt Peters have explored the depths of Ingram Creek. Ingram is one of Alaska’s finest classics, hidden beneath the peaks of Turnagain Pass on the Kenai Peninsula. When the rain falls or snow melts, this small creek turns into a playground full of great ten to fifteen foot boofs, slides, and a majestic thirty five foot waterfall. Here is the best of Ingram from 2013-2014.
Recently I acquired one of Go Pro’s new additions to their line-up, the Go Pro Hero. Breaking the trend of recent years of developing top of the range action cameras, Go Pro rather quietly announced that they were bringing this little camera as a new budget option for those of us who don’t want to pay up for the new Hero 4. And at £99, I’m really impressed with it!
The Liquidriot Duo kayak seen in a previous post was photographed a few days ago. In the three days following the original post over 12k people have viewed it, which is quite simply incredible.
The Duo was hand crafted by Newcastle Uni paddlers – Jacob Collings, Matt Rose, Catherine Sanderson, and Angus Mackay. The guys behind the kayak have kindly sent some images of their creation being put together.
Awesome trip to the Stikine river in September 2014, with footage from Nick Bennet and Ash Bullivant.
I have now been using a Peak UK Custom drysuit for about 6 months on rivers and for playboating and I have been very pleased with it. Not only is the drysuit really good quality but the ability to have your own customised design incorporated really well into it makes for a winning combination.
One of the key features about this drysuit is that it is made out of their X3 material not the X4 that some of Peak’s other kit is made out of. Now this comes with a selection of pros and cons that will depend really on what the individual paddler would want from their suit. Trying on the Peak whitewater one piece in the shop, the X4 material felt quite heavy to wear although I don’t imagine this would greatly affect movement on the water too much. The custom suit with the X3 however feels much lighter.
Most recently I moved my ass up and over to the Pacific Northwest. This place is sick as I have known for several years, but to call it home is next level! This video shows some of my days from the 1st month living here.
A great little edit from Andy Cumino (Sheffield University Canoe Club).
NSR winners Sheffield University Canoe Club proudly present the National Student Rodeo 2015.
Sadly the kayaking world has lost another great kayaker – Louise Jull.
Louise followed the site and took part in our 2013 Q&A series (see below), our thoughts are with her family and friends.
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