This past winter in Phoenix really kicked for water levels, I was bummed to not be there for it.
This is a couple of guys, Hut and Paul, who I paddle with in AZ making the most of it.

J

On Trak Across a Wave

My heart pounded in my throat. My pulse raced. I carried a flimsy aluminum frame wrapped in a plastic impregnated canvas down to a surf beach. It looked like a sea kayak, and paddled like a sea kayak, weighed about the same as a fiberglass sea kayak, though it folded up into a golf bag.

Am I sane? I asked myself as I climbed into the cockpit, fastening the spray skirt amongst the swirling shore surge. I looked forward at the surf rushing in towards me with walls of ravenous white water. What’s the worst that can happen? I again rhetorically queried (not really wanting to know the answer). My mind was swirling like the foam in the shallows around me. I was about to take my Trak kayak out into the surf for the first time, and my doubts of it sea worthiness came leaping into my head and my instincts, though I Had to test what it could do and take. “Let’s see what you are made of!!!” I exclaimed and pushed off into the surf as the next surge lifted the boat clear of the sand.

I have had my hands on the Trak for a week now. And I have been very impressed by its pack ability, ease of set up and break down and how well it paddles in average conditions. I managed to get a bit of storm swell surfing on the inside passage of Vancouver Island and I was impressed by its speed. But could it take a thrashing on the open coast??

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Updates on my "'Yak about the world" are up on my other site. check it out!


http://onayakabout.blogspot.com/

Music

Here is a great track from a band I got to see live in Cumberland B.C. the other night.

Five Alarm Funk, man they rock, an eleven peice band form Vancouver. I can bearly walk today after dancing all night to there jams.

Check it out Voodoo Hairdoo



Website
http://www.fivealarmfunk.com/

Belize in Yourself

Here is a fun Video a Client of mine and friend ( Corri ) made of the trip she did with me in Belize.

enjoy

J

Timescapes

Found this guy’s work and felt it really captures the essence and beauty of the AZ Desert. enjoy.

Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Tome Lowes blog site is http://timescapes.org/blog/index.php/timescapes/
and website
http://www.timescapes.org/
all his stuff is amazing and the feature length film will be mind blowing.
J.

White water Kayaking the Salt River Arizona.

here is a video from our fun kayak trip in AZ.

Salt River Phoenix AZ from Jaime Sharp on Vimeo.

Salt River Phoenix AZ from Jaime Sharp on Vimeo.

To read more about the trip click here, or go to my Taking a Yak About the World Blog for other paddling stories; www.onayakabout.blogspot.com