Great fun in 2014

                               Jølgens Bølge, Sjoa (Waterlevel 351.55) 

Winter is half way now. It came quite a bit of snow this year, so far. A few days ago it started melting thoe. I am already over-exited over next season kayaking especially since i discovered how much rivers are offered close to my chosen home the old dirty Oslo. Looking back i had a great season last year. Big Volume in spring. Playboating in Summer and Creeking all the way through the season. I love the Bazooka I discovered a different style of boating with it and having edges in the back. It was first a big change but once the movements came to my hipps, awesome. It brought me a lot of fun down the river and good control in 2014.

                                                  Numedalslågen in high Flows, pretty intimidating. (Foto Andre Ramos Rocha)

While i tryed to cut a rodeoclip i remembered how boring it was so i just made a 30 second one :)

Jølgens Bølge, Sjoa, Norway from Slow Motion on Vimeo.

Rain in Oslo 

Written in Nov 15th 2014

The last week it was raining quite a bit in Oslo and i was lucky to meet a bunch of Paddlers who where keen to run some Rivers within an hour drive from Oslo. Every day for five days another river where flowing in a good level. We could just pick the one that looked most inviting. 

Oslo as a "Big Town“ offers 10 or more options to go boating. Most of it would be described as class IV double run double fun. To name a few Leira, Urula Jonsdalelva, Bingselva, Saggrenda...

We have been also to the Etna, a 19 km whitewatermassage. It took us 2,5 hours driving each way but was totally worth it.

There is a playspot in Hønefoss which is a 40 min drive away. And some of those named runs have big waves after heavy rain.

                                                River: Etna Foto: Beth Hume

                                                River: Etna Foto: Beth Hume

                                                  River: Bingselva Boater: Beth Hume

Nice little clip from a park and huck session Out of the view of Daniel Andersson

Bingselva, Drammen 16/11 2014 from Daniel Andersson on Vimeo.






Vuttudalselva in Sør Trondelag
Written in September 28th 2014

I did quite some bushwhacking in the past month. It got rewarded with the First Decent of the Vuttudalselva in Sør Trondelag. My mate Nathan, who lives just around the corner of this run, knew this stretch of river since quite a while but he never got the right water level or a crew to go and boat this class 5 gnarr.

So i visited him on rainy days. We checkt out the hole stretch and found a waterfall combo untouched waiting for the first Blast. 

 This event woke the interest of a Trøndelag newspaper which i find great. Bringing the Riverkayaking closer to the lokals and give understanding of what we love. Nathan gave a interview about possibillitys for the Outdoorindustry in the area. 

Here a video that Tore Meirink cut from the 1th Decent of the Hole Riversection

                   Vuttudalselva from Tore Meirik on Vimeo.