Pyranha team blog

There is still a lot of water flowing in Maine right now. I managed to squeeze a trip up there over the weekend. The Gulf Hagas was by far my favorite of the three runs we got on. What a classic. Some clean vertical stuff, some sweet boulder gardens, and one rapid with some serious consequences. During the run-out of our second lap we even saw a HUGE bald eagle. It was an awesome adventure. I will be back next spring for sure.

photo by: Scott Barnes

Last weekend I went to the 1st Extreme Kayak in Catalonia, concretely in the Upper Noguera, near Sort (Pyrennes). The event was really cool, with prelims in saturday and finals in sunday. On sunday we raced by couples and had to do an eddy and touch something like a bell for the cows.

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 Just got back from an awesome trip to the Swiss / Italian Alps. I spent 10 days ticking some off some of the classic runs with the Fat Cat lads. The weather was great and we got loads of stuff done despite a fairly laid back schedule. We made good time on the rivers making plenty of time to soak up the local culture and for a massive night out in Milano searching for the highest concentration of super models in the world. I would definitely recommend you get yourself out there. Here are a few pictures to give you an idea.

For some reason i can’t find the ones of the lads and the super models. 

Hi all!

We are frantically packing to leave for the West today, but have stuck a quick report that Andria wrote about last week up on our website.

Go to www.RiverGypsies.com for the full report.

Andria styling Wonder Falls
Photo by Leland

The last couple of days I went creeking in the beautiful Val Sesia/Italy and took part in the Teva Outdoor Games.

We ran the Egua and the Sorba several times to be well prepared for the race (downriver, team, slalom, sprint, boatercross), which offered some super-close results in the end! Our team (Jakobus Stenglein, Benny Herbrügger and myself) came second behind the Italians by only about 2 seconds.

I could achieve my personal best result in the slalom (4th place) and ended up on the overall 9th rank in the end. The event was won by Honza Lasko (CZE) in front of Michelle Ramazza (ITA) and last year’s winner Jakobus Stenglein (GER). To sum it all up: great rivers, big event, sunshine, lots of fun!

Here are some shots of the trip:

This weekend was the Reno River Festival. Team Pyranha was there in full force to do some Freestyle and Boatercross, and get some creeking and partying in between it all.

Dave looping the Rev in Reno

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While the British Columbia low lands have been covered with snow most of the winter and records continue to be set for low Spring temps, low elevation snowpack, ect…, Spring is finally showing its face. Weather forecasters are predicting that warmer temps will begin to prevail as La Nina weakens and as a result we will certainly have a big water season in store. Todd Gillman and myself have been out despite the lack of Spring breaking in our new Burns and also getting some cockpit time in the new Everest. From post holing into the Ashlu to racing Robe Canyon and from backyard classics to Van Island explorations, the BC boating season is in full swing. It certainly feels like Pyranha is taking over the world out here on the creeks. Everyone is either paddling the Burn (or Everest) these days or wants one!

The Everest loves BC creeks!

Todd Gillman Ucona River, BC

Bryan Smith Pamela Creek, BC

Chris Tretwold Ucona River, BC

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So some of you may be wondering where I am…and most of you might not care…and if thats the case don’t Read the rest of this entry »

Hey yinz! Dave Fusilli here, bloggin a couple videos myself and the demshitz Seiler brothers have put together. The first one, Click here for video, from Cheat Fest this past weekend, along with a couple fotos from two days on the Lower Big Sandy with a bunch of folks out shreddin in Ammos and Burns. Also, a video featuring the New REV the Seiler’s put together, click here for video, from a day at the Eternity hole in Western North Carolina a few weeks back. Enjoy!
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Me and Marks dog Inca enjoying the sun

This summer I have been asked to be apart of an awesome expedition out here in Norway. As you all know Norway has become well known for its waterfalls and steep creeks. The amount of drops seems endless. well this year we will find out.

Our aim is to descend 1 mile of vertical white water in 1 month. during the summer over a period of 31 combined days. Mark Burton, Ed Cornfield and Martin Vollen and myself will huck, fall and throw ourselves off as many waterfalls as we can. We need to average 42.5 feet each daily and as a drop can only be counted once this means a lot of classic and new runs. It should make for an awesome trip and I will be reporting as we go here so you can follow us. You can also catch us on our website linked below:

http://www.onemileonemonth.com

getting used to the handling on my new Everest

we are just waiting for the melt now which will soon hit Telemark so until then I´m getting out as much as I can in my new Everest which is going to be my weapon on this expedition and from what i´ve seen so far is an awesome boat.

Enjoy your spring, I know I will!

Per

Watching Dave and the guys leave, I was pretty sad. Spending almost every second with a bunch of fine people even for only 10 days can make you close.

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They say that Norway is the land of contrast. Fair enough. After a wiked winter kiting, it is now starting to smell spring again!! As we still got tones of snow up high in the mountains, Oslo and Telemark area are opening quickly. Awesome to get the show back on the road for a new season

Pyranha tent set-up for a Demo with Whitewater Warehouse.

In the past 3 weeks I have been traveling around in the team van with Dave Fusilli and my brother Graham Seiler hitting up some on-water demo days.
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It’s almost time for me to head west for a couple months, but this weekend I had some events to attend to closer to home. A busy weekend for sure, but a lot of fun and some good results.

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Monday last week, 14th April: Due to maintenance work on a hydropower facility, there was water in a normally dry creek with some bigger drops, so we had to ignore the weather forecast and go…

Our new Drysuits did fully pay off, as the VIDEO shows.

You know it’s spring time in the Adirondacks when people are trying to decide what is more important to stuff in the back of your boat: A breakdown paddle or snowshoes. It’s been a spring to remember up here lots of runs on the Boquet, John’s Brook, and the Branch amongst others. The highlight came over the weekend when Myself, Tom Vickery, Phil LeMarche, Bill Frazer, and Dave Carouso, walked 2 and a half miles up John’s Brook to see what was up there.

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We had an awesome weekend of racing on the LW. Sat was the down river portion of the event, and Sun was the first ever LVM Giant Slalom. I ended up finishing first place overall which was a great feeling on my home river. I feel like this type of racing is the way the sport should be heading and am stoked to do more of these events. Check out lvmtv for more full results and details. Read the rest of this entry »

Last weekend we went to paddle to Millau, France; however the river Tarn was little higher than normally due of some rains, so the slalom course was closed and it was forbbiden to paddle there. We looked for another spot around, but we didn’t found anything good enough. Next day we drove south and found a natural slalom course with a good hole, so we spent the whole day althought it was cold, windy and it rained. I don’t ahve any photo and not so much footage cause of the weather… will be better soon.
Here is a little video from last competition and this weekend, paddling with the REV.
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Last weekend I hit up the first annual Nortwest Creeking Competiton. I took down first place in the Huckfest over Sunset Falls on the East Fork of the Lewis River. It was a good time, lots of freewheels and whatnot. I went for a seal launch into the base of the falls for the crowd pleaser. The race was also sweet with a 80 racer turnout. I finished the race in 3rd place… but only 1/5th of a second off second. Here are some shots of the action. Read the rest of this entry »

Cody and Mike here just back from Three Rivers, CA! We’ve got our burns in and what better a place to break ‘em in than the Kaweahs. We had a great four days lapping the various forks and also ran into Josh B out there showing the World Class kids how to get it done. Hope all is well out there and enjoy the stills!

 - Huckin Huge

 Cody hitting the boof stomp on V Drop

 Lining up another one…

  More boofing

 Mike’s first rapid in the burn - Chuck’s drop

 Feeling like driftwood