Kafue River Expedition: Northern Zambia by christopherkorbulic | Jan 19, 2012 | Creeking, River Running, rivers, Team JK, WhitewaterThe man in back wants to see you; at border posts, visa offices, consulates, these are never words you want to hear, especially when at first it seems that you’ll walk away from the receptionist with visas in hand, grinning, and the sun shining on your face. It...
Toketee Falls First Descent by christopherkorbulic | Apr 29, 2011 | WhitewaterYou don’t have to go far from home to find some great adventure. Last week I had the good fortune of waking up to a surprising amount of water in the North Umpqua River at Toketee Falls. I had been to Toketee a few times before, never at a runnable water level,...
Stookesberry and Korbulic revel in final days in Venezuela by christopherkorbulic | Apr 16, 2011 | Creeking, WhitewaterRio Caroni, Bolivar, Venezuela We were sitting around a glowing fire that heated our dinner and lit the amphitheater of jungle around us as we leaned back on boulders or pieces of fallen trees. It was Pedro Oliva, Ben Stookesberry, and me waiting for what we were...
Chris Korbulic Reports from Venezuala- You Win Some, You Lose Some. by christopherkorbulic | Mar 25, 2011 | Creeking, Team JK, Whitewater You win some. You lose some. Such is life, such is the story of adventure, and of filming a kayaking television series. Sometimes it’s difficult to see the difference between a win and a loss, and reason doesn’t always support what you think you have in...
Brazil: Kaiak II and The New Hero Shines by christopherkorbulic | Mar 1, 2011 | Hero, WhitewaterI can’t imagine many better places to learn to paddle than the Amazon River or its tributaries. During the first week of filming Kaiak II in Brazil, we had the opportunity to paddle on the Amazon proper, where waters of the Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes meet at the...
“Kaiak II” by christopherkorbulic | Feb 23, 2011 | WhitewaterIn 2010 Ben Stookesberry, Brazilian Pedro Oliva, and I faced some of the most difficult whitewater in central Brazil. Thanks to Pedro, images from the trip were produced into a television series for a Brazilian network. To capture 13 episodes, we covered thousands of...
