A 6 day, 300km unsupported journey
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The adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championship is truly unique as it brings together athletes from all the individual kayaking disciplines, extreme expedition paddlers, freestylers and Olympic slalom kayakers, to compete against one another on a world class stretch of whitewater.
Just as the heat has finally let up and fall weather is in full effect, we get some… interesting news around many local’s favourite summertime pastime – canoeing. Previously canoeist in Ontario found with a blood alcohol level that went over the legal limit would be prosecuted under impaired driving laws.
This meant having their cars impounded, incurring demerit points, paying heavy fines, or even losing their license. All while never … More
A “sick line” is the perfect, smoothest and fastest line downriver. And that is exactly what the World Championship competitors have to find when racing down the famous section of the glacier-fed Ötztaler Ache River that is peppered with loads of natural obstacles. The Wellerbrücke rapids are solid class 5 whitewater, both technically difficult and dangerous. The course has the reputation of being the Eiger Northwall of whitewater kayaking.