Paula’s Funsized Adventures

I had originally booked the last week of August off work thinking I would go to Ottawa like I did in that week last year - its a good week because there is a bank holiday in it, so I only have to use 4 days leave instead of 5. Well, funding didn’t work out for me on that front, and the same thing happened to most of the people I thought I would go there with… So I had a think and decided to do a road trip to the Continent. Anywhere where there was water. Probably around the North Alps area of Austria and Switzerland.

The week was perfect weather wise - we arrived in Munich to torrential rain on the Saturday after driving all night. My friend Benjamin who lives in Munich told us to meet him at a bridge over the river Iser. We parked up, bought some food and beer for the evening and then got changed in the pouring rain. The wave was pretty sweet, although the eddy access left a bit to be desired - we eventually set up a rope system which solved that problem.

Danny loving the wave on the Iser in the middle of town in Munich.

 
Teaching Cate how to kayak on the beautiful flat section of the river 2 hours drive downstream.

 That evening we headed off to a party at München Kajak Klub EV - a very random invite through a friend of a friend. We got horrendously drunk and met some new people, all good fun. The next day we took Benjamin’s insider tip for a picturesque (flat) river section on the Iser, two hours drive South for Cate, who had been kayaking once before the trip. The sun came out, and didn’t go away again all week! Afterwards we did an early evening run of the Loisach - a North Alps classic, a continuously fun class 3 with lots of eddies and rocks to play around on.

After that we headed off to Landeck to set up camp for the week. Rivers we managed to tick off included Inn sections Tösens, Haiming and Imst, the lower Oetz and the Venter Ache. Many bottles of wine and beer were consumed and the sun shone all week! We taught Cate to roll in the lake and on the rivers we met some Scottish, German, Austrian and Canadian paddlers along the way. Awesome holiday - thanks Cate and Danny!

Gnarly!(?)

 
An early evening run of the lower Oetz.

 
Danny on the picturesque Venter Ache, before it starts hotting up!

 
Poser!

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