Lachine...

hmm, sunshine, montreal, good waterlevels...
this seemed to become a good morning, and it was.
went out to lachine rapids today for a relaxed surf and had the wave almost for ourselves.
the astro is so at home on these waves...
all pictures by dave pierse and myself. i love this spot!

the waves... the st. laurence is kinda wide.

big joe, the right shoulder launches...

just to give an impression on how wide the river is! spot me...

good night,
sven

Magnum and Rouge!

yey, i´ve had the magnum out for the first time last week!
i´m super stoked about that boat, pretty much feels as if riot´s built a boat exactly for me...
fast, responsive, everything just fits.
we ran the seven sisters section on the rouge river in quebec at probably around 30cms, nothing too hard, but a fun run!
pictures are not the best as it got dark while we ran the last and steepest section, a sweet gorge with six drops.
enough said for now, gotta get some breakfast and go boating at lachine. enjoy!

first drop in the steep section

going straight into the 2nd

entrance to the third

storing boats downtown montreal, fernando´s lovin it

peace out,
sven

Dumoine River, Quebec!

hmm, season´s almost done.
two more days at owl rafting and then i´m off to quebec, montreal and hopefully some creeking, too. i´m exited, as i just got a magnum, can´t wait to bring that baby out.
last week we already were out to run the grande chutes of the dumoine river, about 1 1/2 hours away from the ottawa.
this section of the dumoine, which apparently is a really nice touring and canoeing river is usually a pretty long portage. the whole section is about 1 km long and offers some excellent whitewater.
so five of us went to see wether it´s worth it. that is stephan "foerster" paetsch, andy, lachie and wylie from riverrun and myself.
took us close to two hours including filming, pictures and safety to run everything, plus two crashed boats and some minor bruises. unfortunately i didn´t make it to montreal before to get my own creeker so i had to borrow emre´s jefe. did the job, but i can´t wait to be in my own boat!
all pictures are by myself, wylie or lachie, thanks to you guys for some wicked shots.

locky scouting the 2nd big one

foerster running the first slide
the put-in is just above that bridge

lachie in the first slide

this and next shot: me running the 1st slide

foerster entering the crux rapid of this section

this and next shot: me running the must-make boof out of the entrance slide
the landing zone is a little bit shallow...

foerster coming out of the big one

happy foerster, yeah

foerster styling one of the bigger rapids a bit further down the run
a really nice boof into s-turn slide

andy in the same rapid

did i mention that the big one is kinda shallow?
yappa´s boat had to take a beating...

peace, out
sven