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Month: December 2017 (Page 2 of 2)

Festive Gift Guide

A great deal of outdoor equipment passes through the halls of Unsponsored HQ. Some great, some good and some not so good. As we get closer to the 25th of December it has now become a little bit of tradition (and to save me answering loads of “What should I get ….. for Christmas, they have just got into kayaking/canoeing/SUP?” type questions via email) to put together a list of gear for our Festive Gift Guide that paddlers and general outdoors type folk might appreciate as presents at Christmas time.

Present Ideas For Paddlers 2017

So here it is.

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Rappelling Into Beautiful Waterfalls

Rappelling Into Beautiful Waterfalls – A short video from a day out at the Truchas waterfalls, we had to rappel in to this set of drops which is one of the things I am most scared of. I am useless with ropes and knots and terrified of climbing.

Rappelling into beautiful waterfalls

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Movie Monday 11 December 2017

Helping to get the new working week off to a flying start here is a selection of ‘edits’ carefully chosen for your consideration by the Unsponsored team. Welcome to Movie Monday 11 December 2017.

Movie Monday 11 December 2017

Enjoy!

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Ouch

Readers, we have all done – or should have done a WW safety course, either an in country one, Rescue 3 or similar. We learn about z drags and mechanical advantage. We should learn about steep ground assessments, we learn to portage, we learn our own boundaries.

Ouch

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1979 BG (Before GoPro)

It’s 1979 BG (Before GoPro). This is an old photo that Steve Muir managed to find. It shows a tv broadcast camera taped to the front of an Elite 77 slalom kayak to get some onboard whitewater footage.

1979 BG (Before GoPro)

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Playboater Titanium Earwig – End Of An Era

After the best part of 20 years of existence the Playboater Titanium Earwig will no longer be produced. Sad times.

Playboater Titanium Earwig - End Of An Era

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Movie Monday 4 December 2017

Welcome to Movie Monday 4 December 2017 here at Unsponsored.

Movie Monday 4 December 2017

We’ve got a good stack of video edits for you to get your teeth into. This includes a number that were submitted for inclusion in this weeks post.

Enjoy!

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Verus Gladiator

The Gladiator is a new kayak from US based company Verus.

Verus Gladiator

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