SCOTT MACGREGOR
b
o
a
t
s
s
m
S
’
,
R
t
a
r
c
E
i
s
T
TTBs (truck temperature beers) and stale nacho chips never tasted so good.
c
W
A
TAKE-OUT PARTIES k
,
50 ALL-TIME W BEST s , l l
E T
s k
SQUIRT BOATING PELICAN CASES
These waterproof plastic boxes were the biggest advancement in white- water photography. If you don’t have your camera on the river you can’t get the shot.
HIP PADS In the mid-1990s Chris McDermott took a jig saw and torch to a kitchen cutting board and shaped himself a set of hip pads for his Perception Super Sport C1. While the Super Sport has gone the way of the dodo, cutting board hip pads live on in almost every converted C1.
CUTTING BOARD
In 1987, Jimi Snyder published The Squirt Book, an instructional book that was also a semi-mystical scroll on the magic of going cubic. His semi-sub- merged acolytes spread his message far and wide—and deep. As Jimi wrote, “Squirt boaters are friends with the wild wind of wonder and just ahead of our time.” Surface boating quickly picked up on the flatwater gymnas- tics and vertical moves of squirt boating. It was the
progressive squirt designs of Jimi and his brother Jeff, which led to the first “hybrid rodeo” boats such as Pyranha’s Stunt Bat and Prijon’s Hurricane, which in turn spawned the Perception SS and Dagger Transition.
31
I
i
PADDLEQUEST
Whitewater filmmaking’s high point came in 1995 when Montana’s Robby Lindsay produced Paddlequest, still considered by many to be the best combination of superior big-water footage, remote locations, profes- sional editing and expert paddling by the likes of Corran Addison, Dan Gavere and Dean Cummins.
TEVA TAN
Nothing says “I’ve been living on the water, pushing rubber down a river for $50 a day” like the Teva tan. Those three white lines are like a bad tattoo reminding you of just how pasty you’re going to look in the school come winter.
NOSE PLUGS
You might sound like a country music star, but you can say goodbye to nasal irrigations at 300 cms.
100-FOOT DROPS
In 2003 Ed Lucero paddled off the 105-foot foot Alexan- dra Falls on the Hay River in the Northwest Territories, trumping Berman’s previous mark of 98 feet. It must have been a relief to Tao Berman’s family to know that they’re not alone.
Neon Gear It seemed so cool at the time.
H
s
RAPID
ROBERT FAUBERT
POLAR BEAR PRODUCTIONS
RICK MATTHEWS
RICK MATTHEWS
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