West Sumatra 2009

Lower and Upper Batang Sangir in the Same Day – Awesome!

Friday, 16 April 2010 04:31 |

Sunday 22 November 2009. At 05:55 I was woken up to a television that must have been approaching maximum in terms of volume. Who knows why?! But it was incredibly annoying! We got up, ate breakfast which consisted of eggs and noodles and as per usual, it was really good. I fed my little cat, Lucky, under the table and gave him half my egg; the poor little thing. There would be no chance of losing weight on this trip, or so we thought. I think I lost about 5kg if memory serves me correctly. Some of the other guys more. We left at 07:30 and headed back on the long drive to the Batang Sangir which we had first descended the previous day for more action.

Batang Sangir – Clocking Up Another Great First Descent Part 2

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:19 |

Batang Sangir – Clocking Up Another Great First Descent Part 1

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:44 |

Friday, 20 November. We knew we more than likely not be able to paddle that day and somehow I was the first one of the westerners awake. After breakfast I began to fill in my journal but then we had to dress up in long pants and closed shoes and leave quite quickly. The weather was not ideal for this type of clothing but we had to because we were meeting with the government and would be filmed too.

Sungai Lambai – Jungle Creek! Part 2

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:45 |

Continued from Part 1

After this we had a fun run under a log, a small rapid, and then another horizon line. We scouted and this one seemed to be the business. It had a half foot drop, a two foot drop and then it dropped about two metres into a frothing pressure area, and immediately turned right and dropped another metre. This was followed by a swift flowing pool of about five or six metres and then another three metre drop that looked like it had a dodgy hole and something weird on the right hand side, which was right below us, so we couldn’t see. Andrew ran first again, much to my dismay as I wanted to hit this one first, and he had an absolute styler of a run, making it look fairly easy! Especially on the final hole.

Sungai Lambai – Jungle Creek! Part 1

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:00 |

Thursday, 19 November. Breakfast was some cake type stuff, and something similar to what we called vetkoek, neither of which appealed me so I wolfed down some monkey nuts and that was that. It was partly cloudy and quite hazy, it looked like it was to be a hot day. But no matter, another day of excellent kayaking lay ahead of us!

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