The Mighty Homathko -Trip Report

This summer an international crew of class 5 kayakers made the amazing journey through the depths of the mighty Homathko's canyons during high flows.
Successfully completing the source to sea expedition in 4 days running some epic whitewater puzzles along the way.

Many thanks to all those who took part in this amazing journey.

Film By
Adrian Kiernan

whiteboxmag.com - ENJOY!

North Stein Whitewater Sickness!

The north stein is somewhat of BC epic. With around 14km of bc bushwacking and high alpine portaging in some of the most remote BC backcountry.
However... The North Stein's 1.5km of whitewater is worth every step, delivering you into the upper raches of the normal Stein fly-in run, taking a total of 4 days to complete.

This has to be on of the best multi day trips ever and is definatly worth the work to get in. Although with the 14km of pain behind you, fully loaded boats make some of the bigger drops pretty scary.

so very sick

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Whitewater Paradise

"WHITEBOX PADDLESPORTS VIDEO MAGAZINE"

"BRITISH COLUMBIA, WHITEWATER PARADISE."

"A visual taste of BC's best Rivers and Creeks."

Featuring the very best eye candy of stunning lines and landscapes, shot on BC's finest creeks, river and streams.

This whitwater hucker's guide includes everything from classic afterwork runs to multi-day expeditions - filmed in just over 2 months of BC summer.

KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN for part 2 coming soon!

Episode 1 Includeds: Tatlow Creek, Rogers Creek, Cheakemus, Callaghan, North Stein, Homathko, Clearwater, Raft River, Skookum Creek, Ashlu and many many more!

Plug in your load speaker and turn it up!

Proudly Supported By: Fluid Kayaks and Kayak4play

Enjoy! - Adrian Kiernan - Whitebox Magazine

Norrish Creek BC

GBA 6 - Norrish Creek BC from Adrian Kiernan on Vimeo.

My exited first day with my new Go - Pro HD, On a medium'sh volume Norrish Creek run.
This was my first creek run i ever did in when arriving in BC and is still a favourite.

Located around 1 hour from Vancouver

Adrian Kierna

Lea River Extreme - Headcam - Tasmania

GBA 5 - Lea River Extreme - Headcam - Tasmania from Adrian Kiernan on Vimeo.

Filmed during the 8th Annual TEVA Lea Extreme Race in northern Tasmania. It depicts Adrian Kiernan runnning a sub 10 minute race time from top to bottom and including all the significant rapids and their names etc.

Filmed on HD-Go Pro
For
Go Boating Australia

Leven Canyon River Guide

GBA 4 Leven Canyon River Guide from Adrian Kiernan on Vimeo.

Just finished a new video guide for the Leven Canyon in Tasmania.
This has got to be my favourite run in tasmania and arguably my favourite run of all time!

Video Produced for Go Boating Australia!

Adrian Kiernan

JAUNT - Available on DVD NOW!

JAUNT - Adrian Kiernan's latest creation for Go Boating Austalia and Skippy Films is now available on DVD
The DVD will be available through Leigh at kayak4play, Jez at Entropy Gear or online.

DVD's are $15 (17$ For NZ Customers and $20 for all other locations postage paid)

Postage Option

Australia $15.00 New Zealand $17.00 International $20.00

BC 2010 - Adam Cooper

Hi Everyone,
Adam Cooper was kind enough to allow us to use a short film he made of our trip to British Columbia this year.
Looking forward to seeing the full edit in the coming weeks!

TEVA Lea Extreme Race 2010

This years TEVA Lea Extreme Race held in Tasmania's Northwest.
Thanks to Go Boating Australia and Adrian Kiernan for the Video.
stay tuned for GBA new video magazine - coming soon!

GBA 2 TEVA Lea Extreme Race 2010 from Adrian Kiernan on Vimeo.

Puntledge River, Vancouver island, BC, Canada

The Puntledge river festival is held on the weekend of the 31st - 1st June in the town of Courtney on Vancouver island. It is a great river with a mix of both great low water hole play and high water wave surfing, including a fantastic "hair boating" section on the upper below the fish hatchery. The Upper Puntledge is known for its beautiful cascading "class 5" bedrock slides., but as with many surburban runs in north america is restricted to flows regulated from dams upstream. The festival is a perfect chance to go huck down some beautiful slides and falls, then surf your way into downtown Courtney and party hard at the camp site that night.... and thats what we did....

Boz taking a beautiful late boof stroke on the falls under the bridge.

Kieran boofing the same drop

Sam Ricketts launches on a late power stroke

Sam Tregenza putting on a show for the bOyz

Henry the van getting loaded up for another run.

Kieran having a little spew after a big big night at the festival party

can you say Hungover?

Sammy T firing up nymph falls right side

Sam Ricketts plugging into the pot-hole between slides

Boz

Sam T

Boz and the typical Puntledge shit-eating grin

Sam Ricketts

After firing up the section again and again, we watched as the water was slowly turned down after the scheduled recreational flows. Standing on the bridge wondering where to paddle next we watched as a stout line appeared to the right of the waterfalls downstream. so after a little extra motivation we decided to fire it up.

Sam R stepping up after winning the rock - paper - scissors

After rolling through some big cushions and diagonals you needed to stick a difficult little boof stroke in a dirty pot-hole right at the lip before dropping another 6 feet into a shallow powerfull hydrolic

Driving from the puntledge we headed south and camped near what we hoped was going to be a beautiful 35ft waterfall. with not many options to camp we pulled into a logging coupe and camped in the only available flat space. The boys all pitching in to cook up a feast that night, followed by cookies and milk, mmm yum

Boz waking up in a puddle from the heavy rain overnight

beautiful free camping

sam peering warm and dry out of the van in the morning at the early rising campers cooking him breakfast.