Friends of the Yampa Hosts 33rd Annual Yampa River Fest June 1-3, 2013, culminating with the Paddling Life Creek Race Mon., June 3. Read on for event details and poster.

 

Yampa River Fest Event Info: June 1-3, 2013

Designed to raise awareness for and protect the 270-mile Yampa River in northwest Colorado, the last remaining major free flowing river in the seven-state Colorado River basin, the event promises a fun-filled weekend for the whole family, with slalom and downriver races, a kids activity zone, freestyle competition, dog events and more.

For complete event details and schedule, go to: http://friendsoftheyampa.com/33rd-annual-yampa-river-fest-june-1-3-2013/

 

Paddling Life Creek Race Event Info: Mon., June 3, 2013

• 5 p.m.– Middle Fish Creek
One mile of Class IV-V continuous whitewater.

• 7: 30 p.m. Apres Paddle Party Carl’s Tavern
New Belgium Brewery beer, music, food & more

Dear Paddlers:

We’d like to invite you to the Paddling Life Creek Race in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Monday June 3 at 5 pm on Fish Creek as the wrap-up of the weekend-long Yampa River Festival. The 2- 3-minute course is Class IV/easy V, with a cash purse of $1,800 (Men: $600, $300, $200; W: $400, $200, $100)

The event is positioned to enable you to visit and compete between the Lyons Games and GoPro Vail Games, and post-race party at Carl’s Tavern downtown. Camping is available at Steamboat Campground (970-879-0273) along the Yampa. Registration is onsite at the put-in (registration closes at 4:30 pm) at a cost of $15 per racer. (Please park along Steamboat Blvd., NOT the road leading upstream to the put-in). More info can be found here: http://www.paddlinglife.net/article.php?id=257

There’s no freestyle event this year, just the creek race – which means there’s no splitting of the purse. So spread the word, come on up to race against some of the country’s best, and we hope to see you

For more info, call (970) 870-1376 or email invitational@paddlinglife.net.

For lodging, camping and lodging options abound (Visit www.steamboatsummer.com, 877-286-2628, for information), or visit our host Rabbit Ears Motel, where you can put on the Yampa right outside your door, at (800) 828-7702, 879-1150). And there’s plenty of other great paddling around, from the C-hole right downtown to the Elk River, Willow Creek and Gore and Cross Mountain canyons nearby.

 

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Annual Film Premier at New Belgium sponsored by Rocky Mountain Adventures:

We invite you to join us for the premier of Kadoma, a documentary exploring the final expedition of the legendary Hendri Coetzee.

When – Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Location – New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins, CO
Time – Doors open at 6:30 PM. Film begins around 7:45 PM.
Tickets – $10 in advance; $12 at the door. A portion of proceeds goes to Save the Poudre.

For tickets contact Rocky Mountain Adventures at 970-493-4005 or info@shoprma.com

After more than a decade exploring Central Africa, Hendri Coetzee is a modern legend in the annals of African exploration. He walked nearly a thousand miles of Tanzanian coastline and led the first team down the entire length of the Nile through war-torn Sudan all the way to the Mediterranean. He returned to kayak solo the most difficult section of the river through the densest populations of hippos and crocodiles found anywhere on the planet.

Calling the Nile’s source at Lake Victoria home, he was well known and loved by the local people. On the eastern side of the river, they called him Kadoma for his bravery in the face of a river they fear and respect greatly. Along the western bank, locals speaking a different dialect call out the same name, but with a different meaning – Kadoma: the little bee that travels and improves lives everywhere it goes.

Solo on the Congo River in 2009, Hendri received an email from American expedition kayaker Ben Stookesberry. “It would be ludicrous,” Hendri said, “to take an American who you don’t know, and who has never been to Africa, into its very heart.” But a year later, he did just that.

Ben’s long-time kayaking partner, Chris Korbulic, joined the group as Hendri led the way from his home on the Nile overland through Rwanda in order to kayak into the heart of the Congo on a previously unnavigated waterway, the Lukuga River. Seven weeks into the expedition, deep in the DRC, tragedy struck as a monstrous African crocodile silently surfaced and pulled Hendri underwater, never to be seen again.

On Hendri’s final expedition, he takes us on a journey of mind and heart through parts of Africa seldom seen, where his own words will always ring true: “Some of the things that we’re about to witness are so intense and horrible that they should stop the show, “Hendri said, “but they don’t. People still laugh and dance. Yes the bad things happen, but so do the good things, the amazing things, and the show goes on.”

Kayak Film Fest to Celebrate June Rise

THIS FRIDAY

Friday May 6^th – Avogadro’s Back Patio, Doors open 6:30, Films start 7:45

605 S. Mason, Fort Collins

$10 at the door includes a free New Belgium beer.

Join us for happy hour at 6:30 on the back patio for a great line-up of kayak movies: Halo Effect, paddling down waterfalls in remote Iceland & Norway andWildWater, a beautiful compilation of kayaking across the world. Plus short films of our own local paddlers on the Poudre River. Silent Auction with cool stuff from OtterBox, Astral Buoyancy, Level Six, Funkwerks Brewery, and Equinox Brewery and more…. All proceeds to benefit Save the Poudre®.

Halo Effect Teaser from thefishmunga

WildWater North Fork Payette Teaser from Anson Fogel.