At the mid of June we went to Austria to do paddling. All the rivers in this area are to high, so first we went to Scuoll (again), to paddle on of the stretches of the Inn gorges. The Inn in Switserland (Engadin) is so great, there're are several stretches, from class III until V, and all with great nature suroundings. Also here was a good sporty flow (above commercial cut off level for rafting).

From there we went over the Austrian border, to Imst in Tyrol, just a 90 minute drive. It seems fun to us to paddle the rivers we worked on last year: the Imster and Lower Oetz. We had a great day of fun, and that's what it's all about isn't it?

Blow um up
I have discovered that running trips with 'inflatable canadians' is great fun. We can take people with no experience at all, and let them experience the excitement of white water. And it's even more fun tomake private trips with friends and family.

Idiots going on the river

There is also less exciting news: a few soldiers of the Swiss army went rafting, the officers thought it would be good teambuilding. They tried to run a few small wiers (in a row) but in the first wier it was already 'carnage time'.The soldiers didn't wear any river equipment and went in to a raft that wasn't suitable for wildwater at all. This idiot plan resulted in 5 deaths and there are still people missing. her eis a picture from the swiss medis of the incident;

Although every guide book describes this are unrunnable and very dangerous wiers, this idiot accident already resulted in 80 cancellations and 25% less bookings for our company Swiss raft. The media keeps on mentioning the raft accident so at the moment Swiss people just don't even think about going rafting. We have great waterlevels but very little work.

On the other hand, more time for paddling!!!
Steve Ed and Charlotte (from Kendall) are coming to visit us, and I'm sure this will result in lots of kayak missions and good stories andpictures for the next blog!!!

Next time more about the plan to spend the winter in India and organise a 5 day trip on the Bramaputra...

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written by jack, July 01, 2008

looks like ya havin fun keep it up cheers jack

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