Kayak Huasteca

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Kayak Huasteca is featured in the Toronto Star.

June 13th, 2009 by Aaron

Here is the link if you want to read about the Huasteca. Very nice article.
http://www.thestar.com/article/647918

Spokiz Sunglasses

May 26th, 2009 by Aaron

Half of Team Kayak Huasteca is here in Colorado this summer. Tomate and Christine in Denver and Marjie and I are in Buena Vista. It looks to be an amazing summer here in the valley. There is a new sunglass company in town and they have given us some glasses to use on the river.

These glasses are polarized and don’t have any hinges. They use an adjustable cord.

Once the cord is adjusted they stay put. Even after a nice ride in the hole on Number 3, Tomate still had his glasses on. They even fit under your helmet comfortably. You can check them out at.. WWW.SPOKIZ.COM

Aaron

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Rafting in the Huasteca.

April 24th, 2009 by Aaron

We have been having some busy days here in Mexico. Semana Santa always brings a lot of clients for rafting. The Tampaon still has quite a bit of water. The levels make for some great rafting action.

This is how we scout form the raft!

The river is an amazing turquoise color. It is like a slice of the caribbean here in the mountains. It makes for a beautiful day on the river. This section is the fifth canyon of the Santa Maria.

Russian Roulette is still over the middle gate rock, but there is always some downtime in this rapid. Two converging currents and a 6 foot drop make life interesting. This rapid is only here during medium to low water.

This is Amilkar showing the custies how Licuadora works. This guy is good at his job!

I’ll leave you with a nice shot of the canyon. The tampaon is a section of the Santa Maria. It begins at the confluence of the Gallinas and Santa Maria. This confluence is the 350 foot Tamul falls. Which you see below.

Thanks for checking out the site.

Aaron

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Lower water in the Huasteca region of mexico, but still nice on El Salto.

March 23rd, 2009 by Aaron

Tomate, Christine, Enrique and I went to El Salto on Saturday. The water was the clearest I have ever seen it. The color was from somewhere down in the Caribbean Sea. Levels are low but still runnable, maybe a week or two more. Everything else in the area is dry,or just barely class 3.
Luminosa is a great boof right now. It has a soft landing and a very nice entrance move.

When the water is this pretty it makes taking good photos easy.

Below is the left line of the Curtina waterfall, a really nice move when there is water. It’s boney now but Tomate still makes it look good.

April is almost here so its time for us to call it a season. I’ll do a few more updates in the next week or two. Hasta Luego
Aaron

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More Micos water levels.

March 9th, 2009 by Aaron

Some more photos of recent levels. This much water is due to the huge flooding that occurred in July and August this past year.

Still nice and fluffy on the bigger drops.

Marjie on the main line.

This year.

Last year. You can really see the difference. Lets hope the rain comes again this year. Keep your fingers crossed.

Aaron

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Micos river water levels.

March 8th, 2009 by Aaron

This season has been very good to us. The rivers have stayed at a low/medium level. Below are some comparison photos of years in the past. All dates are the same…just different years.
This year.

Last year.

This is the first drop. Dates from yesterday, 3-07-08 to 3-27-08

Yesterday.

Last year.

3-27-08
I have some more that I will post later.

Aaron

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Ruta Sin Limite

March 2nd, 2009 by Aaron

As promised, here are the photos of the Ruta article about El Salto.
Andrew is in most of the shots. Tomato is featured in the ever loved “mamacita”

It’s a great article if you can read a bit of spanish. CLICK ON THE PHOTOS TO SEE A LARGER VERSION.

Aquario is one of the easiest drops to photograph.

Enjoy the photos.

Aaron

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Andrew made a nice video of their trip to Mexico.

February 22nd, 2009 by Aaron

This video has a great view of Mexico. It really lets you see how life is here in the Huasteca. Click on the links below an enjoy.

Winter Road Trip from Andrew Koch on Vimeo.
Hope you all enjoy it.

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Some good Publicity for Kayak Huasteca.

February 16th, 2009 by Aaron

We submitted an article, about one of our local runs, to a National Magazine here in Mexico. This is a picture of the cover.
It is an exciting day for us. My brother Andrew is featured and I took the photo.

We also will be appearing in a half hour adventure show on Univision. Univision is one of the largest spanish speaking television stations in the states. Here is a link to the promo of that program.

http://www.univision.com/content/video.j…

Hope you all enjoy. I will be posting the entire Ruta Sin Limite article soon.

Aaron

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Time to loop!

February 8th, 2009 by Aaron

It seems like the loop is the popular trick these days. Loops and some variation of them, will get you big points in rodeo. This is a variation of the loop:

First you need a ten foot drop.

You have to plug it….DEEP

On the way back up, its gonna to feel strange. You have a ten foot waterfall, falling on your head.

Throw it fast, and try to keep your head out of the water.

Continue through the pool to the next 25 footer. Go to the take out and eat some gorditas.
Welcome to kayakers paradise….with tacos.