This past week, New River Academy took a two-day drive from Lijiang to the Salween River. This may be my favorite river ever and it had some of the best big wave surfing I have ever experienced. Growing up in West Virginia, I have seen my far share of good waves but the Salween blew [...]
We just got off a 5-day river trip on the Mekong River in China. It was a spectacular run tucked away in foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. It is a high volume run with big water play and big rapids. With the support of four rafts, our team covered close to 50 miles of river [...]
Some of the great shots from our Huge Experiendes in China!
New River Academy Students explore Shanghai as they arrive in China
Matt West captures photos of his classmates on the Salween River
Tyson Rowley catches a Tut-tut taxi to “Fortune Cookie” on the Salween River.
New River Academy students practice their Spanish skills with a game [...]
Gonshang, China
It took the New River Academy two days on our private bus to arrive to the Salween River near the Nu Jang Valley town of Gonshang. We drove five hours roadside to the Salween peering our windows prior to arriving to our Gonshang base.
Students woke up each day for morning workouts, completed an accredited [...]
Hey Everyone,
I hope everyones Thanksgiving was great! And filling! We had some duck, some potatoes and some onion soup. Pretty awesome for China. Anyway. We are finally at a good internet connection which allows me to post up our latest video which is a short peak into what we have been doing on the Mekong [...]
Mekong Expedition
Describing the Mekong would not be right without first detailing the drive. The drive from Lijiang first required a layover in the town of Jadien. Jadien is a town resting on the slopes of the Tibetan region of Shangri La. Much of the road was high above the Yangtze and we saw the famous [...]
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank David Hughes for having this wonderful school. My son Cael
Jones has always struggled in the public school system. Since Cael has
been enrolled in New River Academy he really enjoys school. I feel New
River Academy is a great balance of the outdoors and keeping the students
active. Since [...]
How To McNasty
1. Start on top of the foamy stuff, front surfin it like a champ
2. As you ride it down into the trough, place one blade in the water, to start spinning in that direction. Place it deep! Gotta grab that green water.
3. Lean forwards and allow your boat to keep its spinnin’ motion, [...]
We were meant to spend 5 days paddling the Mekong River stopping in the afternoon to make camp and get some camps in, however on our 4th day of camp some local chinese police came and told us we couldn’t paddle any more. They wanted us to take out at camp. We layed over a [...]
We drove about 12 hours out of Lijiang over a 14500 foot mountain
pass. Everything was covered in snow and we had snowball fights. We put
in right above a huge rapid. We spent a little while scouting and those
who were running it did and the rest portaged. We continued down
through more big water until we reached [...]