Kayak-Personal

Date: Wed' 22nd Feb
Location: Queenstown (Dogleg)
Group Members: Jimmy Jarvie & myself
Duration: 2.5hrs
Grade: 3-3+
Flow: Medium
Incidents: None

Me and Jimmy went for a paddle down dogleg which was a new river for me. goood fun. Trying to surf a good wave on do-little rapid. sweeet rapids towards the end that were quite big and fun. Camped at the take-out to hopefully kayak the meg the next day but it rained all night and the rivers were too high. but still a fuun paddle.

Kayak-Personal

Date: Sunday 5th Feb'
Location: Toaroha River
Weather: Humid, and warm
Duration: 2-3hrs
Group members: Greg lee, Rata, Phil P, Martijn, Luke, Sara, James Sadler, Jacob, Scott
Grade: 3
Type of river: Boulder gardens, boofs, technichal.
Flow: Low
Incidents: None

Had my best paddle on this river out of any of the other rivers i've paddled. We walked up our boats to the put-in which took 40mins. Never paddled this river before but felt really confident as five others had paddled it previously. First solid grade 3 in a while but after doing the first rapid i was quite confident. Had to scout about three of the bigger, technichal rapids. One which i was thinking about not doing as the others said they's portaged it more than once, but the flow seemed good and was a good run out if things went wrong but did it clean. No carnage, swims or any problems the whole trip which was sweet as we had 10 of us paddling. Wicked mission overall.

Kayak-Personal Hurinui, (Maori Gully)

Date: 15th January 2012
Location: Hurinui, (Maori Gully)
Duration: 1.5hrs
Group members: Nick Bishop, Martijn, Ben Searle
Grade: 3
Flow: 80 Cumecs
Incidents: None

We left Christchurch in great, sunny weather, got into the hurinui valley and the weather went southerly, cold and raining. So we had some problems with the kayaks on the roof with the wind which slowed the trip down as we were wanting to do more than one run. Got on the river quite late. Used my new mini mystic for the first time so that was a bit different but still a sweet trip.

Raft-Personal (Work experience with OPC Peel Forest, Rangitata River)

Date: December
Duration: 3 days
Group members: Christ College High School kids
Incidents: None

Worked three days on the grade 2 section of the Rangitata with OPC Rafting. Good learning experience and all went well. Was good to see how a company works etc.