Yes, the Slave might be one of the largest rivers in the world, but this week, the flows almost doubled. On Monday, it was too low for Rollercoaster, which is a low water feature. On Tuesday, it was too high for Rollercoaster, and maybe high enough for the Sweet Spot, which is a high water feature. By Wendsday, is was too high even for the Sweet Spot. We have no idea what to paddle. We made a couple expeditions out to different spots, but mostly we've been surfing the waves out in the middle of the playground channel, which are good for once. We're all waiting eagerly for the levels to drop from "flood" to "high" so that we can hit Sweet Spot and the Forgotten. In the meantime, enjoy some random photos from the spots that we've investigated. Photo by John Blyth. Full album First we went to Rollercoaster, since we couldn't believe that it would be too high just one day after being too low. The only moves that we could do there were downriver m
A few years back we did our first top to bottom Slave River Run as a duo double date with our good friends John and Gen. It was a special trip. Since then, we have tried to do a top to bottom every year. I think we missed last year, but the year before that we had a nice trip with Leif's mom and boyfriend Rob. We just finished our top to bottom for this year dubbed by John Blyth as Fitz to Smith Bump and Grind Edition 2017. Yellow Route map by John Blyth, annotations are my own. Although the trip is becoming more 'normal' for us and it is easy to become jaded or to think that there is no new story here, I realized that our adventures with our northern family and friends and our adventures as a new family of three is worth writing about. Sure, the trip no longer carries that ring of doing something new which is always a great motivator for sharing the story. However, the newness is still there in other ways, the spectacular scenery is still there, and the
Or, for my kayaking audience: Sweet ill stuff to do while yo leg is broke. Specially if you are ballin on a budget. Brown. EDIT: I have written another article, featuring a newer stern mount, but also a short essay about my philosophy of GoPro filming. You can check it out here . Well, as you all know, I recently broke my leg, so I can't kayak for a while. During my downtime, I have been playing around with my camera equipment, and I thought I would write a post about some of the cool things that you can do to your GoPro. The GoPro HD cameras have revolutionized action cinematography, because they are so accessible and yet so high quality. I am still learning, but here are a couple of tips and modifications that I have found that help you get even more professional looking results with a minimal investment. I started this article by just writing about the time lapse tools, but then I just had to make a video showing them in action, and then it all spiraled out of cont
Further warning: Leif has learned to clean blunt.
ReplyDeleteIs that really the color of your boat or does your camera have some sort of color saturation problem?
ReplyDeleteYour mom has some sort of saturation problem. Yeah I'm rockin' the pink Nemesis. Want to make something of it?
ReplyDeletedoesn't count unless you clear the bow.....
ReplyDeleteNitpicker. I don't agree. Anyway, a couple shots before this my bow was clear of the water.
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