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Texas Water Safari 2002 |
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WaterTribe EC 2003 |
WaterTribe EC 2004
Colorado Winter 2005
Colorado Winter Paddling
March 2005
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Paddling Sea Wind Canoe on Horsetooth Reservoir west of Fort Collins, CO.
I launched at North Eltuck Cove
from Lory State Park and paddled south to Orchard Cove and back. Water Abstracts
come from the same paddling trip.
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14.8 Mb
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far far away ...
Texas Water Safari 2004
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A short video clip from a trip to Texas in June 2004.
The 2004 Texas Water Safari has been postponed due to flooding. Bummer!
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Fun of Paddling Upstream
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Paddling upstream of Poudre River below Fort Collins, CO in May 2004.
The movie was shot with a "helmet cam" mounted on a bow of Sisson Nucleus 100 kayak and connected to
Canon Optura XI camcorder.
The royalty free music comes from freeplaymusic.
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(16Mb for
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WaterTribe Everglades Challenge 2004
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300 miles in Florida from Fort Desoto at Tampa Bay through Everglades National Park
to Key Largo in my Sea Wind during the
WaterTribe Everglades Challenge in March 2004.
The video was shot with Canon Optura XI camcorder and still pictures with Canon PowerShot S40 camera.
The royalty free music comes from freeplaymusic.
This is a second movie in the WaterTribe series after EC 2003,
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South Platte River Winter
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Paddling Sea Wind on
South Platte River in January and February od 2004.
The video was shot with Canon Optura XI camcorder and "helmet" camera. I used royalty free
music from freeplaymusic: "Far from Home","High Drama",
"Dark Haze", and "Abandoned".
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Surfrigger II
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Paddling Surfrigger on
Horsetooth Reservoir and
Boyd Lake. The movie was edited using video clips shot from July to December, 2003
using Canon PowerShot S40 camera on board in a waterproof case and Canon Optura XI camcorder on land
mounted on a tripod. This is a sequel to my original Surfrigger video clip.
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North Platte River, WY: Treasure Island to Pick Bridge,
May 26, 2003
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A day paddling trip from Treasure Island above Saratoga to Pick Bridge.
It was much higher flow than during my April 2002 run:
N. Platte @ Gateway ~1000 cfs + Encampment River ~1500cfs, N. Platte @ near Sinclair ~3500cfs, easy paddling,
no obstacles except the Pick Ditch Dam below Saratoga that was fun to run, a lot of floaters.
There was still a lot of snow in Medicine Bow Mountains.
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Colorado River, Palisade to Westwater
April, 2003
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A weekend paddling trip on the Colorado River, April 12-13, 2003:
Palisade (Riverband Park) - Fruita (Colorado River State Park) - Westwater.
River flow: ~300cfs at Palisade, ~1400cfs at Colorado/Utah state border.
More pictures from this trip.
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WaterTribe Everglades Challenge, March, 2003
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My photo impressions from WaterTribe Everglades Challenge and paddling in Florida
with my Surfrigger after a long driving from Colorado.
pictures & story
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Surfrigger, February, 2003
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First paddling with Surfrigger (solo outrigger canoe)
on partially frozen Beaver Pond in Arapaho Bend Natural Area in
Fort Collins, CO. Two days later the pond was frozen.
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Pyramid Lake, Nevada, September 27, 2002
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A short paddling on Pyramid Lake near Reno, NV (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation):
starting on the west coast below Indian Head rock,
crossing the lake to visit the Pyramid area, returning back on the other side of the Anahoe
Island.
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Texas Water Safari, June, 2002
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Highlights from the 2002 Texas Water Safari by Steffen Saustrup and Q-continuum team (Marek & Connie Uliasz).
More pictures and stories about this in my reports from TWS-2001,
TWS-2002 and TWS-2003
3:18m.
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5Mb versions
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11.4Mb avi
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In my TWS 2003 report there are two short video clips included:
my training run on San Marcos just before the race
and the finish of three boats at Seadrift.
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South Platte River, November 2, 2002
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My traditional winter trip on the South Platte River starting at
Mitani-Tokuyasu State Wilderness Area below Greeley, paddling upstream to Plumb Ditch dam and back.
Some snow and freezing temperatures but the river started to flow again
after very dry summer. Unfortunately, there was lot of duck hunters.
1:14m.
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Horsetooth "Rapids", Colorado, September 7, 2002
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Horsetooth Reservoir has been drained to about 5% of the its full capacity
for dams renovation. It consists of three ponds connected by two narrow channels.
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In the beginning
of September 2002 it was enough flow to create some whitewater and rapids in the first channel. Two
weeks later the whitewater was gone.
64s.
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Boyd Lake, Colorado, August, 2002
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An evening paddling on Boyd Lake with a beautiful stormy sky and sunset.
My first video clip with a camera mounted on the deck of my sea kayak.
30s.
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