Africa Revolutions Tour - Part 2 - Lesotho
Lesotho is an independant nation landlocked in north eastern South Africa. Known as the mountain kingdom, it holds the highest waterfall in southern Africa - Semonko Falls (700feet) on the Maletsunyane River. Our group of 5, plus 6 South Africans, hiked into the base of the falls to start a multi day first descent of this beautiful canyon.
Africa Revolutions Tour Part 1 - South Africa
Missions from the Transkei and Drakensburg ranges of South Africa, the team of Tyler Bradt, Ian Garcia, Lane Jacobs, Capo Rettig, and Pat Camblin have been rallying around South Africa looking for virgin runs and waterfalls... Follow the trip on the tour blog at www.africarevolutionstour.blogspot.com - This 10 country African adventure will attempt to paddle first descents and classic runs in 10 countries between December '07and April '08.
Marlow Stunt Doubles for 'Into the Wild'
Last august Marlow spent some time on the Grand Canyon with INTO THE WILD star Emile Hirsch (main character Christopher McCandless) and director Sean Penn...
Malaysia 07
Tribe paddler Anthony Yap has just completed yet another exploratory tour through Malaysia. This time he managed to meet up with a few more of the locals, and a jungle tribe that had been relocated due to damming. Further knowledge of the area gained by the locals not only led the expedition to newer rivers but also revealed that last years Malaysian expedition that visited one of the northern rivers is also home to a man-eating fish, The Toman. Last year the boys were seen happily and obliviously swimming around at the mouth of this river to cool down.
Petite Mecatina - 5 day self support - Part 2
Days 3,4,5 of this northern Quebec classic featuring Joe Barkley, Willie Kern, Fred Coriell, Billy Murphy, Anthony Yap, Erik Boomer, John Grace, Pat Camblin and Tommy Hilleke. Also make sure to check out the video on LVM TV ...
Petite Mecatina - 5 day self support - Part 1
The mission was simple, get to the bottom of the river in time to catch our ferry and avoid being stranded for an extra 7 days... The rest were just details and thoughts of the unrun gorge and the need to stay at river level if we were to make our ride were attempted to be pushed to the background..... The all-star team consisted of Tommy Hilleke, Erik Boomer, Willie Kern, John Grace, Fred Corriell, Joe Barkley, Billy Murphy, and Tribe pro team members Anthony Yap and Pat Camblin. The video will be appearing on the next LVM... subscibe at www.lvmvideo.com
First D - Monkman Creek, Tumbler Ridge – British Columbia
Rush, Patrick, Brooks and Tyler were joined by Nelson BC hucker Mikkel St. Jean. With boats loaded for 3 days away the boys headed deep into Grizzly country in Tumbler Ridge Provincial Park (which had just reopened after having been closed due to 3 Grizzlies that had been “causing a lot of grief”). From the photos and info we had the 20km hike in would lead us to 10 good to go trail-side drops in the 30-80 footer range… Unfortunately most of the drops turned out to be not so trail-side and not so good to go (rocks in landing, bad lips – some would be better with more water) The group still managed to get on a few great drops and some fun rapids on the paddle out.
World Record Descent of Alexandra Falls in Canada's North West Territories
The boys were up on the infamous Slave river filming for the upcoming YGP double disk feature "Source" and "State of the Art" wiith Brooks Baldin and Pat Camblin - Tyler and Rush fired up this monster today on our way south. Tyler won the rosh and went first. He greased the line and stomped the landing. Rush was looking good down the drop holding his form and nailing the entry angle but his skirt blew and he ended up behind the falls for a few scary moments... Everyone is ok and stoked on an amazing day. Congrats boys! We measured it with weighted wire cable at 107 feet from the lip. Stay tuned for a further update with some of the shots.
Slave River
Tribe pro team members Brooks Baldwin, Tyler Bradt, Rush Sturges and Pat Camblin on this northern big water classic. The boys met in Edmonton and made the long drive north to find the Slave running at a solid flow of around 4700cms (170,000cfs). The water was still fairly warm and the colder temps meant the normally heinous mosquito situation wasn’t a problem. The slave boasts some of the best big water boating in the world with a multitude of channels with waves of all sizes to surf and lines as burly as you want to make them.
British Columbia
Rush, Charlie, and Patrick arrived ready to huck. Record snowpack in BC meant rivers were pumping. We got on some goods right off the bat with local Mikkel St. Jean bringing us to the ~60 foot sutherland falls at juicy flow and some other gems between revelstoke and neilson. on our way back to the coast we stopped in kamloops and, unfortunately, had our car broken into and had all the footy/photos stolen along with expensive camera gear, passports and all kinds of other stuff thats a pain to replace. We regrouped at skook with Ian Garcia, Tyler Bradt and the BC kids, and then headed out to find more drops... BC has the goods, enjoy the shots from after the theft.
