Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 31st, 2009 | No Comments
Canadian Nationals
The Pan American Championships brought slalom kayaking’s top athletes to the Kananaskis River. The competition was fierce and after 3 days of competition, we had new Pan Am champions. In the K1W category, Jessica Groenveld, in K1 David Ford, in C1 James Cartwright, in C2 Ben Hayward and Cam Smedley,...
Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 31st, 2009 | No Comments
Instalment VI
Sturgeon Falls
The drive to Valleyfield was a quiet one. After a couple of weeks on the road, everyone is pretty tired. We arrived and set up our camp in the field of the high school. The B.C.E group arrived and what seemed like a pretty big green space soon shrunk. The Valleyfield training week went...
Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Instalment V
The Colorado Group
After all the rain in Minden, we were glad to move on to the Ottawa River where the sun was shining and the water was even warmer. We competed in the Junior Olympics freestyle competition. After waiting 3 hours for a feature to come in, the rodeo got moved from one wave to one just...
Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Instalment IV
Podium: 1st- Thea 2nd- Marissa 3rd- Jazmyn
Upon arriving in Minden, it promptly became known that we were not to have a sunny week. The Gull River offered us some of the coldest and wettest weather ever. Luckily with all the constant rain, the bugs were too scared to come out, so only in those short...
Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 12th, 2009 | No Comments
Instalment III- New York
Climbing into the van in Denver, I had no idea that we would be driving for 33 hours straight through. We wanted to do a river run on the way out there, something on the Upper Peninsula near Michigan. So we drove up North, sadly the GPS didn’t know where the put-in was and we ended up running a short...
Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Instalment II- FibArk
The FibArk Festival was great! I was able to catch up with friends from Golden Junior Olympics as well as compete in the slalom race and 26 mile downriver race. Friday night, we joined in on the festivities. Bands played the whole weekend at the outdoor stage riverside. Saturday morning brought the slalom...
Posted by Marissa in Spring/ Summer 2009 on 08 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Instalment I- Road Trip
Wow, what a summer. After 8 weeks on the road, it feels good to be home. In over three years, I don’t think I’ve ever been home for my birthday- refreshing. So, as promised, the adventures from my summer.
With school finally finished, mum and I started on our long journey southwards. Our first stop...