Date: Tues 15th-Fri 18th March
Location: Lake
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Kayaking- Personal
Date: Sunday 23rd September
Location: Crooked
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 2
Group Members: Myself, Tui, Gretchen, Luke, Watson
Accidents/Incidents: None
Awesome, cruisy day down the crooked. Played in all the waves and caught as many eddies as we could to get the most out of the day. The flow was pretty low so we decided not to walk up to the grade 3 put in but still not a bad flow to play in waves etc. As Luke ran the shuttle we stayed in the river practising back deck and rodeo rolls. Didn't quite manage to nail it but it's my goal to try get one.
Location: Crooked
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 2
Group Members: Myself, Tui, Gretchen, Luke, Watson
Accidents/Incidents: None
Awesome, cruisy day down the crooked. Played in all the waves and caught as many eddies as we could to get the most out of the day. The flow was pretty low so we decided not to walk up to the grade 3 put in but still not a bad flow to play in waves etc. As Luke ran the shuttle we stayed in the river practising back deck and rodeo rolls. Didn't quite manage to nail it but it's my goal to try get one.
Kayaking-Personal
Date: Saturday 22nd September
Location: Arahura
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 3
Group Members: Myself, Gretchen, Eckies, Jake, Dan, Harvey, Sara, Martijn, Watson, Ru, Lenny, Tui
Accidents/Incidents: One swim from Eckies
Nice day for a walk up the Arahura. Big crew but we managed that by splitting into two groups so we wern't so clustered. Martijn and Jake went up further to run Cespit. We met them at the grade 3 put in and headed down. Not too far into it Eckies had a swim but no problems cleaning that up. Headed on down catching heaps of eddies and trying to milk it. Sweeet day!
Location: Arahura
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 3
Group Members: Myself, Gretchen, Eckies, Jake, Dan, Harvey, Sara, Martijn, Watson, Ru, Lenny, Tui
Accidents/Incidents: One swim from Eckies
Nice day for a walk up the Arahura. Big crew but we managed that by splitting into two groups so we wern't so clustered. Martijn and Jake went up further to run Cespit. We met them at the grade 3 put in and headed down. Not too far into it Eckies had a swim but no problems cleaning that up. Headed on down catching heaps of eddies and trying to milk it. Sweeet day!
Monday, 17 September 2012
Raft-Tech
Date: 18th-20th September
Location: Arnold, Upper Grey River
Weather: Fine
Group members: Tech raft students
Grades: 2-3
Accidents/Incidents: 4 broken paddles
Fun 2 days on the Arnold guiding and doing rescue scenario's such as tethered raft, throw bagging, z-drags and pig-rigs. The last day we went to the Upper Grey river to get some grade 3 guiding in.
Location: Arnold, Upper Grey River
Weather: Fine
Group members: Tech raft students
Grades: 2-3
Accidents/Incidents: 4 broken paddles
Fun 2 days on the Arnold guiding and doing rescue scenario's such as tethered raft, throw bagging, z-drags and pig-rigs. The last day we went to the Upper Grey river to get some grade 3 guiding in.
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Raft-Personal
Date: Sunday 17th September
Location: Crooked River
Duration: 2.5hrs
Weather: Fine
Group Members: Tui Kraal, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson, Myself
Flow: Low
Accidents/Incidents: None
Fun run down the Crooked practising our guiding skills and rescue skills for assessments. Started with doing some tethered rafts, some systems, flipped raft and just a good time guiding the Crooked which i haven't rafted before. Nice weather for it too!
Location: Crooked River
Duration: 2.5hrs
Weather: Fine
Group Members: Tui Kraal, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson, Myself
Flow: Low
Accidents/Incidents: None
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Raft & Kayak-Personal
Date: Saturday 8th September
Location: Arnold
Duration: 1 day
Weather: Thunder, heavy rain
Group Members: Myself, Ellis Slee, James Sadler, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson
Flow: 100cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: None
Monday, 6 August 2012
Kayaking-Personal
Date: Thursday 2nd August
Location: Hurunui
Duration: 1 day
Group memebers: Jimmy Jarvie, James Sadler, Myself
Weather: Rain and cold
Flow: 180cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: Heading into the gorge (Maori gully) I had a swim. Got tipped getting pushed under a slightly undercut/overhanging rock, losing my paddle so couldn't roll . Lost the paddle, so had to walk up the steep bank out of the gorge onto the road, haul the kayak up the bank and walk it to the take out. Not ideal.
So we headed to the Hurunui thinking the 180cumec flow was gunna bring something exciting, but all that we got was a washed out, faster flowing river. It was very boily and lots of lateral waves, buffer waves off the rocks on the side of the river so not as fun as it gets at a lower flow. Boils got the better of me a times, rolling alot but the one time i happen to roll over and lose my paddle, it was as we headed into the gorge so my swim was not ideal. Made a very hard walk out but all went well with communication with Jimmy and James. Once i got onto the road we blew our whistles to locate where each other were. Met them at the take out and drove the 4wd motorbike (As our shuttle) to the truck at the put in. We got changed, drove back to the take-out, loaded the kayaks and headed home. Not the best of days but a good learning experience. Maybe i need to get a hand roll locked down!
Location: Hurunui
Duration: 1 day
Group memebers: Jimmy Jarvie, James Sadler, Myself
Weather: Rain and cold
Flow: 180cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: Heading into the gorge (Maori gully) I had a swim. Got tipped getting pushed under a slightly undercut/overhanging rock, losing my paddle so couldn't roll . Lost the paddle, so had to walk up the steep bank out of the gorge onto the road, haul the kayak up the bank and walk it to the take out. Not ideal.
So we headed to the Hurunui thinking the 180cumec flow was gunna bring something exciting, but all that we got was a washed out, faster flowing river. It was very boily and lots of lateral waves, buffer waves off the rocks on the side of the river so not as fun as it gets at a lower flow. Boils got the better of me a times, rolling alot but the one time i happen to roll over and lose my paddle, it was as we headed into the gorge so my swim was not ideal. Made a very hard walk out but all went well with communication with Jimmy and James. Once i got onto the road we blew our whistles to locate where each other were. Met them at the take out and drove the 4wd motorbike (As our shuttle) to the truck at the put in. We got changed, drove back to the take-out, loaded the kayaks and headed home. Not the best of days but a good learning experience. Maybe i need to get a hand roll locked down!
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