We started out the school year on the Ottawa river in Canada, a large volume river with many playspots scattered about. The majority of our time was spent at two places, Garberator and McCoy's rapids. 'Garb' was a huge wave with a nice foampile on top, great for throwing any wave trick in the book. [...]
The World Kayak initiative would like to announce the recent creation of a new blog Worldkayakblogs.com. This is a first post on this blog’s behalf.
I found this piece of metal sticking out of the waters of the Ottawa River. The water has calm waves flowing through it with a grass bed sitting underneath the water. The stick breaks this tranquility, and is standing in solitude. It was shot at an f-stop of 3.5 with a shutter speed of 1/400th [...]
When traveling to the Ottawa river many people have dreams of flying high and hucknig huge on Garberator, clean spinnning endlessly on corner wave, or bravely punching through Phil's Hole. However, tucked away in a corner off to the side in McCoy's Rapid is a ramp.
Tino Specht prepares for takeoff. Photo by Sam Fulbright (c)
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Sam Fulbright is a senior leader at New River Academy, and is in his second year traveling with the program. The folks at NOC
brought Sam up in kayaking, and really instilled a passion in him for kayaking,
particularly freestyle kayaking, and he has been paddling non stop since. Lately a big passion of Sam's has been [...]
I'm Daniel Stewart, a student leader at New River Academy and whitewater kayak instructor for the US National Whitewater Center. This year I will be travelling with New River Academy and documenting our adventures as we travel the world in places such as Canada, China, Chile, and the U.S. I was also lucky [...]
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