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Yearly Archives: 2006

Shotover River; Cascade Rapid,NZ

The Shotover river ends with a bang. After exiting the Oxenbridge tunnel, which is 170m long and took the Oxenbridge family three years to build, you have a couple of seconds before you hit the pillow off the river right wall and and shoot down through the guts of the hole at the bottom. If…

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The Waikaia River, Take 2, NZ

Rob Murphy(Ireland) stylin his boof off the first drop. This past week has been a good one. A trip on the Landsborough and also a trip on the Waikaia river.I met up with these boys by leaving a note on their car in Queenstown. After calling, they showed up at my house later, after a…

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Landsbourogh River, NZ, 3 day trip

The view on a sunny day looking up from camp one. Last weekend and in the past week I had the opportunity to get out on a couple three day trips on the Landsbourogh River with Queenstown Rafting. On the first trip when we first headed out there we were hoping for a clearing of…

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Kayaking Upper 12 Mile Creek, NZ

The other week myself and Simon Moreland got out for some sweet boating missions. After getting bumped off work as the Shotover was too high we decided to go boating on it. Running at a flow of 180cms it took us around an hour to paddle 16kms with some scouting of five rapids. We then…

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The Nevis River, Take 2, NZ

The Boys, L to R. Dawson, Paul B, Myself, Danly and Marc in Front. Yesterday myself, Danly, Paul Button, Marc, and Dawson headed up to Ben Nevis station to hit up the formable Nevis River. With a somewhat clear day, what looked like a good water flow from the flow phone we were off, but…

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