by Josh Galt | Sep 29, 2012 | Gallery
I love to standup paddleboard, whether in the ocean or in rivers. The Rio Savegre in Costa Rica is a great stretch of class 2 with some 3’s interspersed and makes for a challenging but fun whitewater SUP run. Photo by Keilyn.
by Josh Galt | Sep 29, 2012 | Gallery
Corkscrew is a hole on the Rio Cahabon in Guatemala that everyone avoids by skirting it to the left. I thought it looked like a fun surf, so I jumped in and took a few bouncy rides. It was fun, but incredibly violent. Pic from video by Paul...
by Josh Galt | Sep 29, 2012 | Gallery
By chance I ran into kayaker Sam Drevo while driving past a fruit stand in Costa Rica, and he invited me to come run the river with him and his (then) business partners. After a long day running the Rio Division and Rio Savegre, on a whim we decided to go check out El...
by Josh Galt | Sep 29, 2012 | Gallery
Running class 5 Rigormortis on Clear Creek in Colorado, I knew I absolutely didn’t want to hit the hole on river left. But dropping into a hole just upstream flipped my riverboard upside down, leaving me deep in the water basically swimming on my own. As I...
by Josh Galt | Sep 29, 2012 | Gallery
One of the first days on the river that I used the new foam hydrospeed I’d built after returning from France was on Canyon Creek in Washington State. I’d run it before on the foam and duct tape riverboards, but the hydrospeed was much better – more...
