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Yearly Archives: 2007

Swiftwater Rescue Technican

SRT Level 1 Every couple of years this a course that needs to be redone. Just arriving home from India for Christmas, and leaving for Chile at the end of the month, I saw that Raven Rescue was running a course on the Nanaimo river. Though not the warmest location in the world, it would…

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Return to Vancouver Island

Sunrise in the Valley. Paddling the Puntledge I recently arrived back to Canada from India and was lucky enough to have the Puntledge river running. This is a river that because of the efforts of the VIWPS, is one of the only rivers that BC Hydro releases for recreational use. There is a rather large…

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The Brahmaputra River, Northeast India.

The Brahmaputra River or the Siang river as it is called in Arunachal Pradesh. The drive to the Put in. I first heard of this river when I worked with Kim Hartlin at my first rafting job on the Bow river in Banff, AB. I continued rafting and cooking in a variety of locations over…

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Kali Ganga, another paddling trip……almost.

KALI GANGA The boys, Myself, Andi, and Kanhan. Last week, we had a bit of slow time at Aquaterra, so sitting around the campfire sharing a bit of rum we made a plan. Andi, Kanhan, and myself decided to go and check out the upper part of the Mandakini river. We got our hands on…

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Kali/Sarda River 2007

Enjoying the campfire on the Kali/Sarda River Expedition. The Kali/Sarda River On the morning of the 26th we meet our clients at the train station in Kathgodam. From here it would be a day and half of driving to get to the put in at Jauljibi. We had an overnight stop at Pithoragarh, during this…

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