S T A N D I N G W A V E S Upper Ottawa Valley
One foot before the other. PHOTO TORE MEIRIK
DOCTORS WANTED
PRACTICE.
PADDLE.
Why wait until your holidays to go paddling when you can paddle and practice in the heart of the Whitewater Capital of Canada?
Live here and enjoy rivers like the Ottawa, Madawaska, Petawawa, Dumoine, Colounge, Noire and Barron, plus Algonquin Park all just minutes from our state-of-the-art regional hospital.
Don’t believe us? Come and enjoy
true Ottawa Valley hospitality while our local river runners show you the rivers and our medical experts
show off our health care, cultural and educational facilities.
Tere is no obligation,
just an invitation to experience the best paddling in the country.
Call our resident Master Canoeist Fred Blackstein at (613) 638-1994
Sponsored by a volunteer group of concerned outdoor enthusiasts and paddlers who live, work and play in the Upper Ottawa Valley.
WANDERLUST
TO TRULY KNOW SOMEONE ELSE, walk a mile in his shoes; to truly know one’s self, huck a mile’s worth of waterfalls. For no other reason than to test their mettle and
prove it can be done, two Norwegian and two Brit- ish extreme paddlers are teaming up to conquer just one mile in one month. Not impressed? Con- sider that it’s a more upright expedition than most, as the team attempts to drop 5,280 vertical feet (one mile) of waterfall in just 31 days. Bliss-Stick team paddler Mark Burton, Liquid-
logic’s Martin Vollen, Dagger’s Ed Cornfield and Pyranha’s Per Christian Pedersen will have to maintain a 170-foot per day average as a group. A 50-foot waterfall counts as 50 feet toward the goal, but only once. Then, the group has decided, they must move on to find another drop. Although still plotting the course and schedule the foursome has chosen Norway for their free fall
16
ONE MILE, ONE MONTH, ONE WATERFALL AT A TIME
road trip. Burton explained there are plenty of suit- able drops all within short distance of each other, many close to the main roads, eliminating the need for time-consuming portages. He said there could be a couple of first descents, but for the most part all four paddlers will know the drops already, cut- ting back on time needed to scout unfamiliar runs. “The big thing for us is time. We all love to huck,
so getting us off the edge won’t be the problem, it’s the travelling between,” says Burton. “I’ve al- ways enjoyed running drops, but I want to see how much we can do physically and mentally; I think we are going to learn a lot about ourselves.” “And I love the fact that for a month I don’t have
to work my ass off to get someone to go hucking with,” adds Vollen. Once the expedition begins later this sum-
mer it can be closely monitored at www.onemil-
eonemonth.com. —Neil Etienne
RAPID
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52