Posts Tagged ‘gold’

April 21st, Aureate, Aurelian, Auric, Aurous…All Things Gold

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

OK submissions for the Werner Golden Strokes Contest are over. Feel free to continue to send in those golden moments throughout the season as we love to see them, but this years contest has capped it’s submissions.

Now we will perform a golden dump the next few days and put up all the photos and video. Then next week we will go live with online voting/judge in a head to head battle of the sweet 16 photos and vids. Essentially we will put the entries in a bracket tourney format and through single elimination battle it out until we find a champ. Good luck everyone and now, gold.

What up LVM!

This is a pretty cool sequence shot of me on sunshine, taken and edited by Rob Hurst about two years ago. Pretty sweet angle and lighting with the fish eye lens. Mr. Hurst does good work!

Peace,

Ryan DeKay

Let the gold shine down.

Hi LVM,

Here are few photos from the past two weekends on Vancouver Island. MG_4556 is of Jakub Drnec running the high water entrance to the Middle Gordon River. MG_4595 is of Braden Fandrich running Landslide on the Middle Gordon. MG_4583 is of Chris Mennell running the entrance to the Middle Gordon. MG_4918 is Jakub Drnec on the end of the 1st canyon the the Lens River. MG_5003 is Joe Box on the notch of Stairway to hell on the Lens River.

Hope these are interesting for you.

Thanks,

Dave Prothero

Gordon Gold


Au


auriforgoldelicious


gold indeed


Golden Stairs

Hey LVM,
Here are a few strokes that made my balls bounce. Thanks for checking them
out.

Jeff West

Golden Bouncing Balls


True Golden Love


Sail Gold


Hey Y’all- Just dumped a bunch of photos off my camera, and thought
I’d send ya a couple “Golden Strokes” from my recent exploits.

#1- photo of me by Charley Bartlett, Boxcar on the North Fork French Broad.

#2- Photo of Jon Weiner by me on Looking Glass Creek

Take care, see yall around

Tyler Boeing

Golden Fork of The Third Oldest River in The World


Tyler Gold

Hey,

Picture is of John Trembly and I squirting Fayette Station on the New in WV at 22,500 cfs. this was our second lap on this rapid after squirt the lower new that day. Hand paddling the new in a squirt boat with that much flow was out of control! but so sick! we were hitting rides in our creeking vests up to 30 seconds! Anyways in this photo we decided to do it with no pfd.

Taylor Martin

Oh oh some unique gold.

Hey guys,
first picture is me on West Cherry Creek taken by the Taft Sibley. Second photo was taken when I was ball’n as a child. thought it would be a good picture since i had a gold shirt on.

Thanks,

Taylor Martin

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Twice the squirt taken at halls of karma by Jon Shannon. Picture is of Steve O’keefe and I playing in the seams in the eddy. the second picture was Taken of me at Fishing with Ghandi on Tremont last fall. Hands down the best spot in Tennessee. Sorry Cowbell you’re second now.

Taylor Martin

Double yo


GhandiGoldenGooyGoodness

And finally for the day a combo entry of video and photos by former Russian President Dave Gorbachev.

Hey LVM,

Was just checkin out the contest, and thought I would turn up the heat and include some new stuff to my entry. These Golden Strokes are courtesy of Joshua Wall on a recent trip to the Raven’s Fork in Cherokee, NC. Southeast is where it’s at!!

First two shots are of myself dropping in to Mike Tyson’s Punchout. Third is myself at Caveman- aka the best boof in the southeast!

Enjoy,

Dave

p.s. real last name is (Ledford). I just made the Gorbachev thing up for yahoo. thanks guys

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gold puncher


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Josh Wall, Mark Taylor, and Dave Ledford make a spring trip up to the Raven’s Fork in Cherokee, NC.

April 4-20 Afghani Gold, Last Day to Submit

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Today is the last day for submissions…get to work. Now gold.
First we have a golden shower submitted by Ryan Allen.

Here is a old photo of my golden stroke taken by Brent Meadows (photo 103)
and also a newer photo of a subterrainian gc photo taken by Nick Murphy

Taste It!,

RA

very nice


ohhh yes, golden nastyness, aaahhhhhhh

one more of Jeremy Pou golden stroking this first D.

You may say why has noone run this little 8′ drop before? It is due to most of the water then drops 25′ into an underground jumble of rocks with only a sliver of water leading into the next drop ( which has been run) that goes into a sweet boof to slide.

gold gold gold gold gold

Now for a little Gold outside of the lower 48.

Here’s a set from a few places I’ve been recently.

first photo (file name ‘dan’) is Dan Dixon paddling his Pirouette on the Piatua river in Ecuador

second one (Diego) is Diego Robles also on the Piatua

Third we have JD Batove on the Upper Willow in Alaska doing a race for daylight run, we took off the river around midnight.

Last is Zach Stipe on the put-in falls of the Hollin river in Ecuador, a 2 day class IV remote jungle run.

Thanks,

Brandon Gonski

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Next a pile of photos by Mark Taylor. Gold.

I really want to stop having to borrow paddles so I’m gonna just keep sending them your way. First sequence is me dropping Big Boy. Next up is Josh Wall firing through mortal combat. Second sequence is what happens when you catch an edge trying to wheel groove tube. I would call it a golden-brown stroke because you’re like “oh crap but then something cool comes out of a mistake and you don’t eat rocks at the bottom. Not intentional but cool nonetheless. Both photo sequences by Josh Wall and Mortal Combat by me.

Good Lines,

Mark











Once again we will finish with a little video. Not sure if this has anything to do with golden stroking, but enjoy none the less. Thanks Weaver for the video and until tomorrow happy 4-20.

Collawash 04-10-2010 from SinkSpots on Vimeo.

Canyons Laiden With Gold – April 19th

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Good 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


“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