Spring Squirt Update
Monday, April 19th, 2010
This weekend, Paul, Dave, Todd, Thomas, and Will went to the Noli to check out Cowbell at 1300cfs. Nice little spring dip.
Archive for April, 2010
Canyons Laiden With Gold – April 19th
Monday, April 19th, 2010Good Monday morning everyone. Tomorrow, 4-20-10, will be the final day to submit your Golden Strokes. We repeat that tomorrow, April 20th, will be the last day to submit Golden Stroke photos or video for the Werner Paddles Golden Strokes of April contest. We’ll continue to post submissions this week and have online voting the last week of April and announce the winner on May, 3, 2010. Thanks to all the participants and now the goooooolllllddddddd. This is a good Monday post with lots of photo and video gold. We’ll start with a post from Matt Wilson from Kayak Telluride on an early season run of Pandora’s Box on The Animas in Colorado.
Grace,
New put-in,,, Don’t pull a Demshitz and get shot gun pulled on your ass. I’ll show the way for some beers ( Like 12 ). Getting stoked for the embudo
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“Paddling for Life”
Matt Wilson/Owner
www.kayaktelluride.com
www.rapidactionrescue.com
Classic Pando Gold
Javier getting Western on That Gold
Nate Klema dropping The Golden Member
The put in.
Sieve...no gold down there!
Ben Luck making the gold happen, Rectilian
Matthew Klema on a long rapid.
From Colorado we jump right into New York State.
Hey guys,
Here’s a couple of shots from last year’s Beaver River festival here in NY, taken at Moshier Falls; what a shame that it only runs one weekend a year… Anyways, the first shot is of one of the Fluid boys Seth Chappelle, and the second is of my buddy Chris Burnham with the eye of the tiger on his first time down the falls.
Enjoy,
Harry Berking
Half the paddle twice the man...check out thecanoemovie.com
Golden Beaver
Shall we move to say…West by God Virginia? Yes we shall!
Sup LVM! Here’s a photo by Jake Ament of the me stroking into the bottom drop of Pillagers Plunder on Manns Creek, WV at 1 inch over spring break.
Peace!
Justin Kleberg
Man o Manns Creek
Moving on….
Hey LVM,
I’m taking a Black & White Photo class right now and I’ve been taking my camera out on river lately and snagged some Northwoods Golden Strokes on the Black River in Michigan’s Upper Penensula. They’re all 35mm shots that I printed and scanned onto the computer. The first one is Brian Krueger dropping Sandstone Falls, and the second is a little C-1 action with John LaGow running Jills Delight.
Rodney Claiborne
Looks like you are learning something in your class...likey.
Another proud stroke of black and white gold.
Finally we have a sweet little video that in our opinion sums up what kayaking is all about. Enjoy this piece sent in by Matt Porter and remember tomorrow is the final day for submissions. peace LVM.
Hey LVM,
Just wanted to share this film with everyone. Filmed during the last weekend of the Tallulah releases…I’ve seen some pretty cool shots this year and just wanted to give respect to all the films thus far. I hope everyone enjoys this…and as always thank you to the crew at LVM for continuing to inspire…
-Matt Porter
the steady rhythmic pulse of wood against metal is the soundtrack for a study on friendships and movement in a classic southeastern gorge
Enough with all this Gold, How about some Digger!
Friday, April 16th, 2010
While filming for the Canoe Movie we undoubtedly captured some great carnage. We have a series of Daily Diggers which pay homage to these brave and dedicated individuals who risk it every day for your entertainment.
Here’s Jeremy Laucks progressing the sport with some sick down river OC1 freestyle on the ferocious Baby Falls of the Tellico River. Way to push this sport forward Jeremy, no kayaks allowed. See Jeremy styling this move, along with lots of other big wave surfing and general radness in the Canoe Movie!
Golden Auriferous Effervescent Friday The 16th
Friday, April 16th, 2010It is Friday and I know everyone is ready to ride this weekend, so with no further delay…gold.
Hey guys,
These contests are sick, what a way to bring people out of the woodwork and share all their sweet shots…anyways, here are a few I have.
The first is Ben Guttridge on Toaster Falls on the New Haven Ledges in VT in the orange Fluid Solo, while recent Beatdown winner, Danny Sigers watches from below.
The next is myself in the blue boat, stroking through the Playpen on the same river.
And finally, Chris Morelli post gold-stroke dropping in from the last drop on the Eagle section of the Beaver River in NY.
Hope you like ‘em,
Eric Adsit
P.S. check out http://sites.google.com/site/newhavenextremerace2009/
for more info on the New Haven Ledges, as well as a short story featured in AW by yours truly.
Toasty Gold
New Haaaavvvvveeeennnn
Rad, What's he looking at, beautiful, odd, golden for sure
Darin McQuoid
As requested, early season Dinkey Creek golden strokes.
Oh yes very Gold Darin, Gold with Envy we are!
Drew Au
Golden Kid Cool
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh golden
Drive a spike in that gold
Gold for Breakfast Anyone? Taylor Feargoldenton
This in from Alex.
Alex Knupp Birthday Gold at Tanners Boof on the Tallulah!
First release of 2010.
Photo taken by Chase Fredrick.
Later
Alex Knupp
Daboofdengold
Hey Guys,
I took this photo of my buddy Zac Crouse paddling the Bass river in Nova Scotia, by the looks of his boat and helmet he could use some new gear haha! Anyway the coolest thing about this photo is his paddle blade, check out how flexed it is! That boy works hard for his boofs.
I can send a higher res version if you’d like it. Thought of this photo when I saw your contest.
Kelsey Thompson
Great shot Kelsey!, that is some high power golden flurry of goodness. Good weekend to everyone!
That paddle has golden strungth!
Gold Morning Everyone…It’s The 15th of April
Thursday, April 15th, 2010We like video here at LVM so let’s start off with a golden submission by Mark Zakutansky.
Hey hey!!! Up here in the Poconos of Pennsylvania… the land of the Delaware Water Gap (Raymonskill and Hornbecks) and steep creeking galore… we have an EPIC spring with the entire month of March showing good flows all across the board.
The video link above is Dave Meister of Danville, PA running the 30 footer on the rarely run Stony Creek, which is a steep creeking tributary to the Lehigh River. Its sees very little traffic and this local gem drops 600 total feet of elevation in just under 2 miles.
The video is by myself, Mark Zakutansky (C1).
You can download it off vimeo if you are so inclined. Here’s a picture of the same drop, C1 style, just before sticking a huge boof…http://picasaweb.google.com/mzakutan/StonyCreekLehighTrib3142010#5449985242541906514
Thanks and keep up the great work down there, we’ll keep merking it up here in the Poconos, rain dependent.
Peace,
Mark Z.
3/14/2010 Lehigh Tributary
Next up is Mark Taylor…
Hey guys,
Hope there’s been lots of great paddling for yall. Figured I would send in a few pictures for the contest. If any of yall know me, I have not been having great luck with paddles lately and am not much of a handpaddler. Being a college student is fun but having no money gets kinda old. Hope these are worthy. Thanks and enjoy this great weather on the river. Thanks to all that took pictures. Show some love to a needy kayaker fellow boaters!
In order: anaconda, Duane Gibson trying to keep his head on his neck, gorilla, notch, j wall stylin go left, basking in the sun, stateline, pencil sharpener
Good lines to all,
Mark
The snake and the raven.
Duane...keep those arms in.
pretty pretty pretty
Haven't seen this angle before...nice!
The Green Race is fun!
Finally a female entry! Looking good Nikki, but next time send an image that is at least 500 pixels wide.
Amos Ivey took this picture of me last summer boofing the middle line of Rewind on the Watauga. Amos has taken some amazing pictures over the years but this is one of my favorites. You can clearly see the last stroke taken to launch this boof and make a clean landing. I love how the water is falling away from the blade of the paddle and the boat seems to be completely out of the water. Thanks Amos!
-Nikki Malatin
OK that is all the eye candy for today. Check back in tomorrow as Eric Adist throws us some really unique gold!
Gold Gold Gold And More Gold
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010We’ll start off with a video of super fun, super fly, super when it’s not dry, Overflow Creek Georgia.
Hey LVM Fam! I couldn’t remember if there’s been a Golden Hand Paddle Stroke on there yet (I’m sure Keith’s got ‘em stacked up waitin’ to unleash ‘em though) and was lookin’ over some footage. This was from yet another fun filled day on the Georgia gem Overflow Creek. Here’s a little background to set up the clip. I’m usually a hand paddler when it comes to Class V, because my roll with a stick can be flakey under pressure. Well on this day I talked my buddy Greg Watson into droppin’ his paddle and hand paddlin’ with me. I ran Marginal Monster way better than I did my first time (melted down-super deep), but did not strike Gold like Watson did. Here ya go!
Here is a fine set of photos sent in by the ever talented Rob Hurst.
Heres a shot of Jeff Snyder getting golden on his feet off of Ohiopyle Falls during the Over the Falls Festival.
More to come…
Rob
The elusive stand-up golden stroke.
Mike Moore at Iron Ring being innovative
Evan Ross getting very golden on the Embudo
The extremely elusive triple stroke. First boater is Raphael Theibaut (sp?) and the last boater i think is Shane Benedict. Not sure of the middle boater. This is from the 06 Green Race. Back when there were only two greenboats in existence.
Hola LVM,
Hello, I hope this email finds you all well. I have dug through this season’s strokes and I believe there may be one or two worthy of the nomination for GOLDEN STROKE (angels singing AHHHHHHHHHHH).
Sunshines in the Gold of the moment
These shots were taken by Mike Thurber of Zak Sears. The first is on the Rio Fuy in Chile during some 2009 Christmas day golden stroking, and the second is on the infamous Rio Palguin. Worthy of gold for sure.
~ Zak
oh yeah
April Trece Werner Golden Strokes
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Here we are almost halfway through the month and the photos and video are still coming in. Boom right back into the gold from Michael Toth.
LVM,
Please break out the “I can’t believe it’s not butter spray” and start enjoying this golden stroke.
photo by McSwain
Spray the butter!
I’m still on the couch after a shoulder dislocation, so with no kayaking in sight for the moment, this seemed like the next best thing.
The first one is Leif Ellsworth about to boof the dog crap out of Dim Sum on Thunder Creek in Washington St. The rest of the run was a wood-choked, high water disaster, but this rapid was amazing.
The next two are different angles on a drop of the North Fork of the Jocko in Montana.
Thanks,
Nick Ianniello
goldy licious!
golden gooy licious
googoldenlosh
Hey Guys! I want to submit a few shots into the contest. The first shot is of me running the bottom slide of Toxaway Falls this spring and was taken by Jae Ellison. The second two were taken by Caylin Edwards on the Rio Alseseca back in February on a Girls at Play trip. They were taken the same day Will, Dooley, Eli and the boys at Esprit were shooting footage for the Canoe Movie. Good times, good times!
Thanks!
Marlo Wright
Crossville, TN
p.s. Looking forward to the Knoxville Premier tonight.
Toxy Gold
Mexican Gold
Mo Mexi'
And our final entry for the day is from the always golden Charlie Mix.
here’s some more golden stroking. I need that paddle, I’m using an old whittled down werner that held together with duct tape!!!
1st one-keith yell boofing “bow down” on jones creek taken by myself
2nd pic-yours truly boofing mortal combat on raven fork shot by joey jarrell
3rd pic-Daniel “Tuck” McCurry on Pin Ball-LRC shot by me
thanks,
Charlie Mix
Yell Goooooolllllddddd!
Oh yeah this is a sick photo
geeeoheldee
Golden Strokes of Monday April 12th
Monday, April 12th, 2010OK we are working our way through the month and it has been oh so golden. Let’s get into it!
Here are some golden squirt boat strokes. After all a good mystery move is golden. These shots are from cowbell, the cartecay, and nantahala rivers.
roy srymanske
Our first 'squirt' golden stroke entry
going down
taking a big breath...
not sure what is going on here
My brother, Josh Dalton, took this one during a road trip as we passed through Idaho. The falls is Lower Mesa just outside of Yellowstone.
-Matt Dalton
Golden Stroking and wishing we could kayak in Yellowstone!
Here is a little Spring Break action from Max Posner and company. This one includes a video which is better than most LVM’s! Great entry Max and more power to you and the fist pump.
Hey LVM,
Writing to submit some golden strokes from spring break a few weeks back. In order they are; me on the 2nd drop at Triple Falls (photo by Eric Mahan) me on the 3rd drop at Triple Falls (photo by Eric Mahan) Hunter Davis boofing on the Lower Rocky Broad (photo by Eric Mahan) Mark Taylor freewheeling Stateline (photo by me) and Eric Mahan boofing Stateline (photo by me) To see it all in moving picture format here is a link to the video: http://www.vimeo.com/10707387
Max Posner
Gold at Dupont
bouncing down the gold
a beauty boof
Wheeling Stateline
da boof
Traveling over spring break for 8 days of paddling in Nelson County, VA, western NC and Beckley, WV.
