western canada!!

okay folks, once again I have been slacking off. no, there was no two weeks break on the road trip, it's just that i am in costa rica now!!!
so i have been kinda busy with adjusting to the place i will be living in, finding a place, a job. and i succeeded, it's all set now. i will write about costa rica later though, only so much right now: it is an amazing place, so different than everything i have done before!

back to canada though!
after kelowna we went on a mission for some creeks in bc, and got pretty lucky. especially considering that it was bone dry for the first part and then too rainy and cold for the last.

we made it down:
the spillimacheen - awesome low volume creeking, nicest moves being a slide into 90° drop, tons of fun boofs and then a nice little twenty footer (foerster broke his paddle, popped his skirt and still didn't swim!)

the jordan - even less volume but some good tight and steep lines, one slide into autoboof where skipped across the pool into the next unscouted rapid

the box canyon of the illesillewaet - even in lowest water still somewhat pushy, fun run

the perry - too low when we ran it

the soo - a lot like the oetz in austria, shallow, fast, dirty, some fun moves but not my fav

the upper cheakamus - fun class IV, on sweet sweet boof!

the callaghan - three times, big playground including sketchy little boofs, attempts on grinding logs down drops, a good 25/30footer and lots of steep bouldergardens. highlights? neil getting trashed at the bottom of the drop.

the ashlu: mini mine, pretty high, pretty fast, pretty sweet (except for that i dented my boat, argh!)
BOX CANYON!!!!! what a beautiful run! class IV/V, bryan smith took us down, almost no scouting, sick lines, complete commitment, no way to get out. it was great to finally run it, i had heard so much about it and it surpassed all expectations. the downside was that we got to see how much progress the hydro companies have made already, the run is gonna be dry from next year (?) on, DAM!!!! check therangelife.blogspot.com for some info on the protest and the other intense stuff those guys are pulling off, there are some gems around!

the area around whistler and squamish is considered to be the adventure capital of canada, and i can totally see that now that i've been. sea to sky, everything from coast to big mountains, so much stuff to be done here!
i will definately come back for a while, maybe even try to work there for a while.

oh, i talk and talk, and no shots? well, to be honest, i don't have too many, as i lost my battery for the slr, so we only took video of most of the runs. just be patient, it'll go online at some point...
and there still are a few...

what a day! sunshine, nice creek, good lines...

davies. jordan.

that boof turned out so well that i skipped the pool and went straight into the next rapid. unscouted...

me. jordan. stomp!

foerster and davies. jordan. boof.

outch! what where you thinkin!
foerster. callaghan.
(also the last shot before i lost my/ran out fo battery...)

there were some chill times, too!

and sometimes having some time away from the boys is sweet, too ;)
enjoying the view over the ashlu valley.

yours truly from turrialba, costa rica.

sven

p.s.: it´s raining like crazy here, hasn´t stopped for six days!