Beautiful pics Mick!

Remember this old chestnut lads?

I'll be entering the senior citizen class by the time I get around to it.

Should be a great night.

Ok Gus, Steve, Micky B, Sharon and all the other freaks....Forget work, family commitments and the fact you may have to drive a long way to make it.....Be nice to catch up.

Hope you make it too Jules.

A fine example of the progression of Packrafting in OZ. Well played lads.

Cool trip and awesome looking river! Well done as always.

Sweet Jeremy.

Level looks awesome and after exploring a bit of the Shoalie, I'd have to say it was my favourite too.

Nice one Lizzy! Brings back some good memories. That last rapid is a real pinball machine at lower levels.

Nice one Duncan and Co. Cool vid!

The first grade 3 with the boulders can be tricky river left. I ran it at .23 and .34 down the left side (not the tight chute) and found it a little marginal and probably should have portaged as you guys did. It really is a fun little trip.

Awesome read and great vids John, thanks for posting them up.

Rad trip! Nice edits. D800....like

Spewing about the bags Mick!

My Coccyx hurts just watching that Steve....Hope all you guys are well.

Hi Sharon,

I was out there in late December and a guy turned up ready to paddle when they pulled the pin on him. Interesting.

They must have had some close ties at the Centre to be paddling a packraft. I wonder if things may change if/when the Diva (new boat) comes out.

Hey Mike,
Thanks for the reply mate, cheers. No point rushing a good thing.

Hey Jeremy,
Thanks for the heads up mate. Very interesting design and something that looks to have a different feel from a paddling perspective. I'll shoot Mike a pm.
Catch up soon, cheers D.

Hey all, I've been out of the loop for a while now so apologies if this has been done already (couldn't find anything with the search). I have heard the good folks at Alpacka are working on/testing a new boat for white water. Have I missed an obvious post somewhere or are we still testing/experiment...

Well played as always mate!

Thanks for posting, cheers.

Thanks Mark. It's always good to read debriefs when things become marginal. Cheers.

Any more on this Steve?
PM if its easier.

Looks like your quota of awesomeness has been reached!
Hope you are well.

Pics or it didn't happen Chris.....

Fishdejour wrote:And I yours Darren, I'm guessing your busy in the snow?

This Sunday was supposed to be the start of my season but work and life shit keeps getting in the way! You know how it is.... I'll be into it soon enough though.

You must know every inch of the Tuross by now! Great vid.

Love your work Steve!

Great work Gus, very jealous mate. Did you catch much?

Well done Mark & Co.

Its always a pleasure seeing what you guys get up to....and the AAWT....Mental! It's hard for most to fathom the concept let alone understand what it takes to achieve in winter. Again well done on both accounts.

Cheers Darren.

jeremy089786 wrote: Darren: you keen to head out for some colo action?

I'd love to Jeremy but things are pretty busy at my end at the moment mate. I'll make it happen eventually. Cheers.

Bumped you back up Sharon!

I wanna hear some travel stories soon!

D.

Back at ya Chris!

PMed.

Hey Chris, hope you hold out until Monday mate, I'm about to lose reception. Got a date with the Opera house hut via the Sentinel.... Get back to you ASAP. Cheers

Yep, calculated risk. Few really ever get to understand it but I find climbers just get stuff. Last big rain event, I headed up to see what the gorge looked like at 10metres but never made it beyond Upper colo and paddled from there down instead. Next big event I'll head up to one of the passes and ...

I'm interested in this kind of thing Rob. I've been off the water for a while but hoping to get back into it soon. I'll get in contact when I'm sorted at my end and I'm looking forward to learning more.

Cheers Darren.

Hi Dave, I wasn't having a go mate, just stoked to see others going for it. Yep the gauge takes a little longer to register so if you didn't see rock on the last one then definitely well over 2 metres! Probably the highest it's been packrafted so far.

Long day hey! Again well done!

Nice work. By the look of the gauge you guys got out just in time. It rose extremely fast in a short period and I think you may have been in real trouble if you didn't get through in a day!

Very keen to hear about this one Dave! Please tell me you took a camera....

You were pretty lucky to be able to portage in the gorge actually!

It never rains, but it pours hey Gus!
I was thinking of you and where you might end up! Would have been an interesting paddle from the Upper Colo bridge back down.

Great work Steve, and nice vid!

Love a good solo mission.

Jeez....forums are slow these days!

The Franklin! Lovely work lads, well done.

Great video boys! Looks like a good level for that section and the rolling practice has paid off hey Jeremy.

A bit late to the party....I put in at Welcome reef 10am and made Sewells by 2.30pm the following day.
I had a reasonable load (10 days worth of shit) and portaged the big ones. I paddled everything I could to make distance and the level hovered around a meter on the Hillview gauge.

Great pics Chris! I've been hanging to see some more trip reports. Was it a first packraft descent of Jacobs? Or have you guys run it in kayaks before?
(Sorry, not familiar with Jacobs)

Dreams......packrafts.......Steve......

Technically that's a wet dream.

Hey Jeremy, thanks for the kind offer mate. I probably won't be out until sometime in the new year at this stage but I'm stoked with all the offers.
You've come a long way since the Kmart job out on the nepean! Good to hear you made the course. Cheers D.

Cheers mate.

Funny shit! Good on you for making it happen Dale and I'm disappointed that I've missed so many trips including Jim's visit. Hopefully things will settle down here and I can get back into it.
Video?

Looking forward to seeing what went down at Penriff.....

Hi Bree, Your biggest danger will be getting hooked on Packrafting! I've done a couple of sections, but they would probably be best left until you have paddled the tamer bits first. Problem is, I haven't paddled the easier bits so hopefully some of the other crew around here will catch your message ...

chrisp wrote: PS - no photos...lost my camera

It never happened then Chris....

Hope it wasn't an expensive one.

Sounds familiar!

Thanks Steve, you know I love my inflatable toys....

You were in 1st Jeremy so I'll pm you all back later tonight. Just temporarily out for the moment.

PM's to those who inquired. I'll post up when the raft & gear is sold. Cheers.

$400 the lot. 2010 Denali Llama (No spraydeck) Splat carbon fibre 4 piece paddle (1 inch custom extension) Macpac rescue vest (Large) New Bax Gear Throwbag My 2010 Denali Llama and gear some gear is up for sale! I'll start by saying that the raft is very well used and has numerous dodgy field repair...