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Scotland – Spean and Garry

There has been a serious amount of rain over the last few days here in the UK, with many rivers being listed as huge on one of the river level sites. Bastien’s edit shows us what the water levels have been like further up north from Unsponsored HQ.

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On a wild snowy and windy winter day, we went paddling the Upper Spean river on 6 and plus pipes then a massive River Garry. I can’t thank enough my poggies. It was a good day. Continue reading

New Logo For North East Kayaks & Paddles

The guys have released a new logo/sticker. It looks great. You can get them directly from North East Kayaks & Paddles.

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Astral Socks

Astral have recently launch some socks to compliment their range of on/off water footwear. Pretty simple but the specs look good.

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Unsponsored In 2015

I have big plans for Unsponsored in 2015. It will mean another move to a much faster server with even greater storage facilities. With thousands of view each and every day and growing month on month it’s time to move again but this has its costs.

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I’ve been researching crowdsource funding over the last few months and rejected most of them as they are unsuitable for where I want Unsponsored to go. I love T shirts and know lots of you guys do to. So I have placed an Unsponsored design here online as a campaign to raise some much needed funds for the server move. Continue reading

Reader’s Rides 2015 – Jon Wyles

Name: Jon Wyles
Location: Scotland
Kayaking ability: Questionable

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4th year Geography student at St Andrews. Grade 3/4 uni boater with 3 years experience.

Boats:

I’ve never owned my own boat, almost entirely due to lack of funds and also due to the fact that the University has quite a large inventory of boats. I first frequented an old Liquid Logic Huck, which saw me through the first few trips I’d been on. This unfortunately was involved in a swim on a high Knaike while in use by another member of the club who shall remain unnamed (James McMahon), and was not seen again.

First Trip

Above: Me on my first river trip (Grandtully), on one of the Huck’s last voyages. Photo: Jonny Hawkins

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Part Two: Journey To The Stikine And The Sacred Headwaters

Part Two: Journey To The Stikine And The Sacred Headwaters from the Mountain Mid Collective.

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Journey To The Stikine And The Sacred Headwaters

Part two of the Journey to the Stikine and the Sacred Headwaters tells the story of the team’s decision to run the notorious Site Zed rapid. Site Zed has only been run a handful of times since the first descent by Ben Marr in 2012. The rapid begins at the same place that BC Hydro planned to build one of two mega-dams on the Stikine that would have flood the entire canyon above. After their portagless descent of the Stikine, the crew returns to learn more about the fight to save the Stikine and Sacred Headwaters from a massive mine that poses extreme environmental risks to the surrounding environment and rivers.

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Newark Fast and Furious

A great edit from Dale Mears. Dale uses the Contour ROAM3 and Joby action camera series to get his footage. Great to see the use of the more unusual shooting angles.

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Getting Wet In North Wales

Friend of Unsponsored Mr Martyn Butler has been out and about in North Wales. Check out this great edit from Martyn.

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Some of my favourite bits from a day in Wales spent plugging a couple of the classics.

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Yak Teams Up With Blue And White

Yak are delighted to announce that from 1st January 2015 Blue and White GmbH, the leading European distributor for paddle sports equipment, will be distributing the Yak brand in the German speaking area of Europe. This follows the presentation of the highly acclaimed new range of products from Yak at Paddle Expo 2014, which caused great excitement amongst the paddlers at the show.
On display were the new vibrant Whitewater, Touring and Recreational ranges, giving a taste of what to expect for the 2015 season, including a variety of buoyancy aids, cags and accessories.

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The popular Whitewater kit is already available across the UK and Europe, to be followed in Spring 2015 by the release of the Touring and Recreational ranges. Blue and White will be one of the first to stock the kit in Europe. Continue reading

Journey To The Stikine And The Sacred Headwaters

Another great edit from the guys at the Mountain Mind Collective.

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The Stikine is a world renowned river in the northwest corner of British Columbia. It is known for its big-volume class V whitewater in one of the most committing canyons in the world. Kayakers travel from afar every year to navigate the depths of the Grand Canyon of the Stikine, but few know of the fight to protect its vast watershed from industrial development. From mega-dams, to massive open-pit mines, the Stikine and its sister rivers, the Skeena and the Nass, are under threat. This is the story of paddling the Stikine River, and learning about the fight to protect the Sacred Headwaters, the source of the Stikine, Skeena and Nass Rivers.

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The Liquid Logic Flying Squirrel vs. The Pyranha 9R

Amy and I are considering purchasing a new kayaks and were curious about two new boats: the Liquid Logic Flying Squirrel and the Pyranha 9R. Both boats are sub-nine foot boats designed to go fast. I was especially intrigued by the looks of the 9R, and Amy was excited by the buzz about the Flying Squirrel. When Woody Callaway of Liquid Logic offered a Flying Squirrel 85 for a test run, we decided to see if we could make a complete investigation.

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Nikki with the Pyranha 9R

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First Day Paddling – 2015

Start as you mean to go on.

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My first paddling day of 2015, a quick blast down the Ogwen (no footage) followed by a few blasts down the Aberglaslyn Gorge in North Wales. Continue reading

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