BC latest….up North

After 10 days of excellent adventures and times with Carl it was finally time to hit the road for the trek North, up to Terrace to take in the Terrace Paddle Party, organised in part by Pat Colgan and Roger Fehr and others, as well as another week or so of boating to include a multi day trip on the Nass (another story)…

As usual the TPP was outstanding with a load of cool people and some great boating…

Pat 5-0 ingGiving 'er Butze

On the Saturday Butze Tidal Rapids (Prince Rupert) were the order of the day for a bunch of Canadian Boaters and us. A number of different channels form different features including Hawaii 5-0, a big surging dumpy wave in the main channel and the Cradle, a soft friendly hole, on the right hand channel, to name just a few…..But beware the surgy, squirrely, boily water in the run outs…

Hawaii 5-0 hitting back

Ronnie on the Cradle

Giving 'er in the Cradle

On the Sunday it was time for a mission to Davis (Khtada) Creek which involved an hours paddle across the Skeena, both at the start and the end of the day as well as a mighty bushwack ….
effort through the ‘jungle’ for almost 3 hours to get to the put in……Was it worth it?…’I tell you when we get to the end of the river..’ was the usual reply…but it most definitely was….The River was savage with big big slides and funky boogie water in between..

Not even halfway bushwacking!!

Slide fun

Still sliding

Part way down

All the way down

In the midst of the slide

Fran boogie water

Going big

Roger accelerating

Jeremy in the top of the S drop

Lining up the exit

A big thanks to Pat, Roger, Jeremy and Laszlo for this adventure…more to follow…