Vancouver Island Video

Hey Team,

Getting super slack on these updates. But here is a little video I have put together of our Vancouver Island trip I ran earlier this spring!!

Thanks a lot to Eric & Josh for the great time and awesome paddling! There is something for everyone out there!!

Aquabatics Vancouver Island Trip 2010 from Blair Trotman on Vimeo.

Cheers

Blair

Apologies for the lack of update recently. I have just been run off my feet with work and a tonne of siiiick paddling. The elbow is providing some awesome local paddling at the moment. As is the flows on the Sheep and Cataract. Have not managed to make it out there quite yet.
I did make it down to the bighorn and Johnston's Canyon over the past week which was fun!

The Bighorn is epic to say the least. It was super high and we walked a lot of it due to the water level. Still a absolutely stunning canyon!!!! Here are some pics. Enjoy

Ryan Scouting Curtain Call, High Water

Mikkel, checking if its not to high to head back in after a goood portage...

Stacked!!!

Freefall, some sooolid recirc at the bottom, walked this one. There is absolutely no way to set up safety. Fully walled in.

JD Creeking course, Highwood River

Imitate this Krista.....The best Eddy turn spot in the world!!

Etherington Creek, Creeking Course 3. Beautiful!!

Highwood River, Creeking Course

Highwood, Line practice, Creeking Course

Kelsey, Boof 30fts Johnstons Canyon

Dean Johnstons Canyon

Simon Mindbender, Etherington Creek, Creeking Course

Ryan, Creeking Course, Etherington Creek

Mike Creeking Course, Etherington Creek

Hope everyone is getting out on some sweet paddling trips at the moment. Really we are having a sick season of boating locally here!!!! All the snow and miserable weather was worth it for sure!!!!

If you want to get into creeking then our creeking courses are a great place to start! Look into it for next season!!! Safe boating! Cheers

Blair

Creeking Courses

So the last two weekend has been host to our first two creeking courses of the season. The first weekend provided a wicked adventure having to whip over to Horse thief River near Radium, BC as it was puking snow here in Calgary. That said and done we did manage to get a nice trip[ down Cataract on the Sunday!
There was at least a foot and a bit of snow on the ground at the put in. It was so beautiful out there paddling down between snow pillows on the rocks!! Awesome day had by all with some great lines on Zig Zag!
The past weekend saw perfect water levels locally and gave us a great day on the Highwood hammering homes skills and then a wicked day on Etherington Creek on the Sunday.
This was a quite the experiance for the team involved as no one had done anything close to such a low volume technical run before. Combined with most peoples first waterfall this creek has it all!!!!

Rob Zig Zag

Rob, Mindbender, Etherington Creek

Andy, Sweeet beauty portage, Cataract Creek

Paul P, Always Smiling

Pat, Slides, Etherington Creek

Patrick, Mindbender, Etherington Creek

Cataract with at least a foot of snow on the ground, gorgeous

Darrell Zig Zag

Breaking Trail to get to the river....cool

Aibert, Etherington Creek

John Zig Zag

John Everts, Zig Zag falls....sweet boof

The boss, Simon, Mindbender Falls

Check back tonight for the teaser for a little movie I am going to make this summer!!

As Always the creeking courses are such a weekend to teach on and tonnes of learning and fun is had by all involved!!!

Peace

Blair