'lo para el amor' Sweet little Creeking Edit from Costa Rica trip 2010

A little edit of some boating me and Dean got to do before our work trip.

Rivers are Upper + Lower Pacuare and the Peralta to Siquirres Section of the Reventazon.
Based around Turrialba.

Enjoy

'lo para el amor' Costa Rica 2010 from Blair Trotman on Vimeo.

Peace

Blair

Octobre in Costa Rica & Panama

So I was lucky enough to spend the better part of October down in Costa Rica and Panama. The first two weeks myself and Dean made Turrialba our base in Costa Rica. This is a paddling destination with a huge range of runs to suit a decent range of abilities.
There is low volume steep creeking and all the way through to MASSIVE volume river running.
Costa Rica is a beautiful country with some very dramatic Geography and more than its fair share of absolutely mind blowing scenery!!!

I have to say the Peralta and down sections on the Reventazon is one of the coolest runs I have ever done. Never ending continuous big volume class III-IV with a bit of Class VI int here two. Absolutely sick!!!

From paddling through house sized boulders surrounded by the steep claustrophobic walls of the Jungle canyon to gorgeous white sand beaches with coconut palms lapping at the waters edge, Costa Rica has it all!!!
The Jungle is something I have to say is just absolutely fascinating. The biodiversity that is contained in that place is just something else. The ants are crazy, the birds are just stunning and the plethora of other creatures contained in this beast is amazing.
I was lucky enough to make it out to the Caribbean Coast with Dean before our work trip started. We stayed in Puerto Viejo and did a little biking mission down as far as you can go to Manzinillo. The coast is gorgeous and the water was so warm!! We skinny dipped before 6 am both mornings which was epic!!
The work trip in CR was phenomenal, we paddled some amazing rivers and saw some awesome progression from all the clients.

Panama was super awesome!! Great group of people with sick mustaches and the paddling was epic!! The food across the board was great even with myself being a Vege...

Here are some pics from my time down there!!

Dean, La Paz Waterfalls

Some Gorgeous jungle Scenery

The Iguana


Lower poza Azul Gorgeous

Dean bathed in Light in the Costa Rican Jungle

The Market..mmmmm

Living the Dream..

The Little Frog....

LAPD

http://www.lightandsoulcreations.com

The Cock Keeping guard in Panama City

The Panama Canal

Flower on Macro....cheers for the Lens Bruce!!

The War Beetles

The Lower Pacuare Warriors

Poza Azul Cascada, Myslef, Photo: Dean Woodgate

Poza Azul Cascada, 2, Photo: Dean Woodgate

Pejibaye, Myself, Photo: Dean Woodgate


Sweet Sketchy Brdge

Panama, GORGEOUS

The cute and Cuddly Sloth

Poza Azul Cascada, Photo: Dean Woodgate

Poza Azul Cascada, Photo: Dean Woodgate

The Reventazon huge goodness!!!

Dean with Vulture above his head...look carefully

Dropping into Upper Huacas with Huacas Falls in the background, Photo: Dean Woodgate

The Toucan

Shuttle Time

The Carribean

Huuge Tarantula

So all in all my time in Central America was super awesome, cool, amazing and wicked!! We got to paddle some cool runs personally and we got to take a bunch of cool people down some of the most beautiful challenging runs they have ever done!!
I still have a few more Panama photos to sort through so will chuck them up when I get a moment. Also a bunch of video. Keep your eyes out!!

hasta luego

Blair

'do it for the love' Finally up in HD, Western Canada Creeking

Here it is, my edit from this summer based out of Calgary Alberta. Plenty of Southern Alberta Classics in there with some good interior BC goodness thrown in there as well!!!
Keep your eyes out for some more coming soon. Scored a 4th place at the Aquabatics Film fest last week.
Check out my good buddy Jasons edit 'FOURTY 2 FOURTY' which took out 1st place at...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-XskI73mU&feature=player_embedded

'do it for the love' Enjoy





Peace

Blair

FOURTY 2 FOURTY out!! 1st Place at Aquabatics Film Fest

My good Kiwi buddy from the home land Aotearoa has put together this awesome video of our summer here in Canada. He is a budding paddler and has been getting out to some of our local creeks and doing some mad walk in missions to get some of this footage!!!!
Last night we had out first Annual Aquabatics Film Competition. There were 7 entries.
Jase cleaned up and took first place and got him self a brand new Dagger Nomad 8.1

Other entries included Mikkel with Yoho which took third and myself with 'do it for the love' which came in 4th. Congratulations to Jeremy Parker who came in second with 'Creeking, an example to avoid'. He took home a brand new Werner Paddle! Jeremy is only in his first season paddling and had made an awesome progression!!

All in all it was an awesome evening. Thanks to everyone who came along to make the night so great!

Here is 'FOURTY 2 FOURTY' from Sinistar Productions







check out Jasons blog
http://sinastarproductions.blogspot.com/
and keep your eyes on his youtube Channel for some sick skating edits from a bunch of our kiwi buddys here in Canada ripping it up!!!

Do it for the love will be up here by next week. Just having a few problems getting it uploaded.

Peace

Blair

BC Fall Creeking Photo Update, The Yukon, 'do it for the love' coming soon!!!

Apologies for the lack of updates. This has definitely not been because of a lack of paddling sweet runs but more due to my own slackness. However it has been a busy while of work now! The kayak school has had an amazing summer and I have been on a lot of amazing trips both with work and personal!
I made the long trek up to the Stikine a few weeks ago. I left very much undecided in my mind. I had not really seriously considered this run this season until Mikkel mentioned it a week or two before we ended up leaving. It is for sure something I have set myself a goal to do and spent a lot of time thinking about it.
We got to the put in at the highway bridge next to the infamous sign. I could not come to a confident decision to put on so I decided not to and hung out with Lianne driving shuttle.
It almost seemed like all the stars had aligned, awesome crew, low water level (unknown low mind you), great weather and great forecast! I just did not feel mentally prepared for the commitment of this run at the time and I am happy with the decision I made. Def a solid goal for the not to distant future!

A bunch of great trips to BC and one of my favorite runs the Yoho Canyon, which I shamefully left my GoPro in the car for....
All in all it has been an epic summer thus far. The weather here in Alberta and BC has not been very summery but all the same it has been a sick paddling season and with unusual amounts of fall rain we are receiving at the moment two of our local runs are back up and running..sick!! Here is some sweet photos from the past couple of months!!!

Enjoy....



Old School Gold Route on the Yukon. A crazy French Can TV Reality show. These guys were doing it old school for 3 monthes!!!!!


Bottom of Portage on Lower Pingston, I think with the right crew and lots of safety this goes....Double Stage 20ftr into Slightly angled 60ftr into boulder garden into Double Stage 30ftr.....Amazing place!



Scouting Curtain Call on the Big River River, Alberta, Photo : Dean Woodgate




Myeself on Freefall, Big Horn River, Alberta, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself, 1st Drop, Lower Perry River, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself, 1st drop of triple set into Arrow Lake, Lower Pingston River, BC, Photo : Dean Woodgate






Myself, Lower Perry goodness, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Low Water seam boof, Elbow Falls, ALberta, Photo: Dean Woodgate




The Yukon, Whitehorse again





Flying off into the smokey haze, Mt Mackenzie, Revelstoke, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself, Sutherland Falls, Revelstoke, BC, Photo: Todd Gilman




Ready to Fly, MT Yumnuska, Alberta




Wicked Reflection, BC




Sweet Reflection, BC





Main Canyon, Lower Perry River, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself Flying High, so sick!





Whiteswan Lake, BC




Whiteswan Lake, BC, So Beautiful




Myself Cliff Jumping with our Junior Dev Team, White River, BC





The massive forest fires in BC this season sure did make for some amazing photos. This was a silhouette at around 10am one day.
Near Golden, BC




Lake Laberge, Yukon River, Yukon




Lake Laberge, Yukon River, Yukon





The Yukon River, You have to go on this thing to truly understand how massive it is!!!!






Dawson City, Yukon, Amazing old style Architecture





Dawson City at 1am. It did not get dark there when I was in town. Got to experience this at some point!!!





The Yukon River Again....MASSSIVE




The Yukon River, GoPRo Image




Rail Tracks, White Horse, Yukon




Sweet Yukon PLates





Me n Simon, Somewhere on the Yukon




Secret Free Hotsprings, somewhere in beautiful British Columbia






Secret Free Hotsprings, somewhere in beautiful British Columbia....



Our Aquabatics Film Competition is coming up this Thursday. So if you are in Calgary come on down to Melrose bar and grill for 6pm. There will be a bunch of awesome edits up on the big screen with some sick prizes to be dished out!!

'do it for the love' is currently in the editing process. I will hopefully have t done by the end of the weekend. Been a bit of a hectic mission going through all my footage in the past few days organising it all.

Anyway hope your Fall is going awesome!!!

Peace


Blair