Date: 07/05/2017
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm Location: Crooked River, Westcoast Rivers: Crooked River Level: 10 Cumecs Weather: Clear, Mild People: Aaron Wheatley Grade: 4 Comments: A stunning trip. Both the walk in and the paddle out made this trip an amazing one. The walk is about an hour and a half through knee deep mud up and down hilly terrain. Although both Aaron and I were puffed at the put in, we both felt really good and took a few minutes to take in the amazing scene which was the upper crooked. The run is very committing and beautiful. I found that most of the rapids were tight, technical and sometimes hard to scout. But we managed to pull of the entire day safely. We took about 2 hours to get down the river, due to this being our first time paddling on this section. An awesome, amazing trip that I would love to do again.
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Date: 02/05/2017
Time: 6:00am - 5:00pm Location: Whataroa, Westcoast Rivers: Whataroa River Level: 30 Cumecs Weather: Clear, Mild People: Tom Beadle, Matt Sparrow, Gat Eades Grade: 3 - 4 Comments: My very first fly in adventure. Leading up to this trip was exciting. The planning, the talks and the preparation were all contributing factors to this trip being one of the most amazing experiences I've had in my sport. After much researching about this river, planning the trip, assembling an equipment list and preparing ourselves mentally, we drove up early on a fine Tuesday morning. Meeting the chopper pilot at 8:30, we fly up the Whataroa valley into Barrowman flat. It was a tense feeling watching the heli leave us behind, knowing that we were on our own from then on. The entire trip went very smoothly without incident, only slightly numb fingers. I loved this river a lot and it was an awesome first fly in. We took many things away from this trip and our next adventure will hopefully be the Whitecombe river. |
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