May was pretty much a blur.
I managed to get out paddling on the Middle Channel of the Ottawa River once at +20 on the gauge.
Also got in a Lower Madawaska River run at 100ish on the gauge.
Other then that it was study study study for my CIsco re-certification exam which I passed!
Now the paddling season can reall get going!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
April went by fast
Alot has happend over the month of April.
I did not get any paddling in at all ... have not been feeling the urger to do so.
I think that stems from being busy at work and also worry about have to study/pass my Cisco re-certification exam in June. It's been stressfully just thinking about it.
I also managed to accidentally break my brand new 50 to 135 mm F2.8 lense. I ended up slipping and when I fell forward my lense heavy camera hit the ground first. The lense totally sheared itself off the mounting plate.
Good news is ... camera is still ok.
I spent easter weekend with the rents. I spent about four hours saturday afternoon up on the roof installing the rain guard ... but ... at least I had a great dinner afterwards with my dad, step-mom and my crazy sister and brother-in-law who decided last minute to drive about 340km on a coffee run and end up at my dads.
Soon it will be time to get wor down around the yard for spring cleanup which is a joy in itself ... not!
I did not get any paddling in at all ... have not been feeling the urger to do so.
I think that stems from being busy at work and also worry about have to study/pass my Cisco re-certification exam in June. It's been stressfully just thinking about it.
I also managed to accidentally break my brand new 50 to 135 mm F2.8 lense. I ended up slipping and when I fell forward my lense heavy camera hit the ground first. The lense totally sheared itself off the mounting plate.
Good news is ... camera is still ok.
I spent easter weekend with the rents. I spent about four hours saturday afternoon up on the roof installing the rain guard ... but ... at least I had a great dinner afterwards with my dad, step-mom and my crazy sister and brother-in-law who decided last minute to drive about 340km on a coffee run and end up at my dads.
Soon it will be time to get wor down around the yard for spring cleanup which is a joy in itself ... not!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A thank you note from a fellow paddler
During my first paddling trip a couple weeks ago ... I spent a few days on the Little River in the Smokie Mountains in Tennessee paddling with Mark Toddhunter.
I paddle with alot of people and will help anyone of my Paddling friends out. Mark and I decided to run the river together ... just the two of us. We left the main group that were dilly dallying trying to put on the water and they were all in the little itty bitty boats. It made sense for Mark and I to paddle together as he was in his Outrage and me in the barge were failrly close together boat size wise.
We had a fantabulous day on the river together. I explained my bizarre paddling style to him. We were able to take the same lines versus the lines the beer coolers would take. Mark swam only two times which according to him is way less then normally.
At the end of the day he had a big smile on his face and apparently at the campfire that night he was super stoke about his experience on the river according to his son Matt and other that were there listening to him
Today I received the following email which made me feel really happy about that day of sharing:
Hope you are well. Just wanted to say that I hope to come to the Yough trip that David Sink is coordinating. More than anything I wanted to thank you for the exceptional photographs that you were kind enough to take for us all at ALF. I have been wanting to “show off” to my pals at work for some time, and all I hear usually is “ so your goin raftin, or kayakin again?”. Now they have the great pictures of the real deal thanks to you. Next time you run Green Narrows I would gladly volunteer to take your photos if I could borrow your camera. Seriously I appreciate your work and our friendship. The day we paddled the Little was a much needed time for me. I had actually been considering selling all my stuff and taking up square dancing or something. You were an encouragement and made the day fun. You are indeed an ambassador for our sport.
Hope your hand has healed.
See you soon.
mt
I paddle with alot of people and will help anyone of my Paddling friends out. Mark and I decided to run the river together ... just the two of us. We left the main group that were dilly dallying trying to put on the water and they were all in the little itty bitty boats. It made sense for Mark and I to paddle together as he was in his Outrage and me in the barge were failrly close together boat size wise.
We had a fantabulous day on the river together. I explained my bizarre paddling style to him. We were able to take the same lines versus the lines the beer coolers would take. Mark swam only two times which according to him is way less then normally.
At the end of the day he had a big smile on his face and apparently at the campfire that night he was super stoke about his experience on the river according to his son Matt and other that were there listening to him
Today I received the following email which made me feel really happy about that day of sharing:
Colin,
Hope you are well. Just wanted to say that I hope to come to the Yough trip that David Sink is coordinating. More than anything I wanted to thank you for the exceptional photographs that you were kind enough to take for us all at ALF. I have been wanting to “show off” to my pals at work for some time, and all I hear usually is “ so your goin raftin, or kayakin again?”. Now they have the great pictures of the real deal thanks to you. Next time you run Green Narrows I would gladly volunteer to take your photos if I could borrow your camera. Seriously I appreciate your work and our friendship. The day we paddled the Little was a much needed time for me. I had actually been considering selling all my stuff and taking up square dancing or something. You were an encouragement and made the day fun. You are indeed an ambassador for our sport.
Hope your hand has healed.
See you soon.
mt
Sunday, March 27, 2011
End of sping roadtrip
Well I have been home for just over a week.
Lets see if I can remember what happened during my last week of paddling.
All I remember is great times on great rivers which included three trips on the Little in the Smokies and a day on the Tellico.
It was great to stay in Lenoir City at Karen and Jeff's place as it made it convenient to go about visiting other paddler that were in the area.
The only hard part of the whole trip was the drive back home. I left Tennessee at 3:30am on the friday and 850 miles .... 15 hours later I was home. This was not bad considering I stopped for about an hour total time including gas, lunch, bathroom stops, and a border crossing.
Would I do that drive again ... yeppers ... am I looking forward to spring paddling down in the USA next spring ... yeppers.
I was definitely wiped the weekend after the drive back. It was pretty much a whole bunch of getting stuff done around the house intermixed with a lot of being in a unconcious state.
I did manage to upload the paddling pics I took during the trip on my flickr
It's still pretty cold at home ... and the ice is still in so paddling in out of the question.
I am hopefully going to keep busy with some up coming studio photo shoots plus some photo shop from some shoots I did just before I left.
Lets see if I can remember what happened during my last week of paddling.
All I remember is great times on great rivers which included three trips on the Little in the Smokies and a day on the Tellico.
It was great to stay in Lenoir City at Karen and Jeff's place as it made it convenient to go about visiting other paddler that were in the area.
The only hard part of the whole trip was the drive back home. I left Tennessee at 3:30am on the friday and 850 miles .... 15 hours later I was home. This was not bad considering I stopped for about an hour total time including gas, lunch, bathroom stops, and a border crossing.
Would I do that drive again ... yeppers ... am I looking forward to spring paddling down in the USA next spring ... yeppers.
I was definitely wiped the weekend after the drive back. It was pretty much a whole bunch of getting stuff done around the house intermixed with a lot of being in a unconcious state.
I did manage to upload the paddling pics I took during the trip on my flickr
It's still pretty cold at home ... and the ice is still in so paddling in out of the question.
I am hopefully going to keep busy with some up coming studio photo shoots plus some photo shop from some shoots I did just before I left.
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