Sjoa River Festival

The Sjoa River Festival is a fun kayakers event organised by Simon Westgarth and hosted by Gene17, Strie Strommer, Palm, and Sweet Protection. The week long festival has races and activities ranging from guided beginner trips down more mellow sections of river to races down sections with a bit more gradient.

Kiwi boys Sam, Jamie, and Brendan taking out first place in the teams race.

 

 Due to some spray deck issues Team VRS came in a long way behind first place.

Strie Strommer roasted us some sheep for dinner

 Fun slides on the Ula Extreme race

 Walking back up for the second round

 Final drop on the Ula Extreme race

 Ula Extreme Results

Womens                                         Mens

1st Toni George                            1st Pavel Andrassy

2nd Lucie Sediva                          2nd Egor Voskoboynikov

3rd Zuzuana Balejova                 3rd Dag Sandvik

In the Sweet Rumble Finals I held a decent lead until the last rapid where I screwed up and flipped in a hole and missed the final banner. Bummer.

In the men’s rumble final Jamie managed to do some amazing overtaking maneuvers in a stacked final and moved from last place…

 … to first place ahead of Egor, Brendan, and Sam.

Simon demonstrating the throwbag olympics

Kayakers and raft guides unleashed!

 The sun setting on another great day… At 12pm!!!