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Eddy Out in Blacktail Canyon -- Live Music by Jimmy Mac, Cricket, and Jed Alan
Season 2 · Episode 12
Thursday, April 29, 2021 • Duration 56:02
What’s up everyone, how’s it going, hope you’re doing well! Thanks for tuning back into another episode here of the podcast.
I just returned from the Mighty Grand Canyon where I was a commercial river guide on a 16 day Hiker Special trip with Canyons Exploration or CANX.
It was such an epic trip. Our weather was overall sunny and warm with the expected spring gusty winds. Our guests were so damn amazing and the guides were just fucking incredible.
Speaking of guides, today’s episode will be a little different this week. I decided to change things up for you all and offer up some acoustic tunes instead of our usual interview. The music from today’s episode is coming to you live from BlackTail Canyon at Mile 120 in the heart of the Grand Canyon.
Blacktail itself is a special place for both river runners and native people. The narrow canyon walls offer an incredible space for playing music, telling tales, or hearing the faint echo of the canyon wren.
The guides performing live today are Jimmy Mac aka Ringtail Jimmy, Amy Rust aka Cricket, and Jed Gantert aka Uncle Jedler. Songs played are mostly originals and some covers from their favorite artists.
I recorded only with my iPhone for this performance and was thoroughly impressed by the quality of the sound that I was able to capture. I loved these tunes and know you will too.
And without further adieu, a live performance in Blacktail Canyon.
Rumor has it that Bob Quist (aka Hayduke) roamed around the Southwest with Ed Abbey and Ken Sleight (aka Seldom Seen) Monkey Wrenching and playing poker together.
-Shoutout to Ray's Burger Shack. Order Jay's favorite...Double chops with custom fries
Meet Nouria, a bad-ass kayaker who’s definitely on the short-list of the most progressive kayakers out there, regardless of gender. Nouria Newman combines a surprising adeptness at playing on white waters with an endless thirst for discovering new horizons.
While most paddlers struggle to master just one sport, Nouria Newman combines several of them. She competes in canoe, freestyle and extreme kayaking, and excels in each and every one of them. Her achievements in the various disciplines prove she’s one of a kind.
In 2013 she won the Ottawa XL, one of the most important freestyle world meetings, followed that by taking K-1 silver at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, and just a few months later she was crowned extreme kayaking world champion. The following year she won team gold at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and team bronze at the European Championships. In 2016 she was runner-up at the Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championships and in 2017 took first place at the GoPro Mountain Games Steep Creek Championships.
As if competition wasn't enough for the seemingly inexhaustible athlete, Nouria ventured on a solo kayaking trip down the Tsarap, Zanskar and Indus rivers in the Himalayas in August 2018. During the week-long adventure she says she "cried, laughed and talked to myself like a crazy person."
It’s hard to understand how such an outstanding athlete would have any spare time to partake in any 'normal' activities, but she also has a masters in journalism and political science from Sciences Po Toulouse. “Journalism is actually very similar to kayaking,” she says. “You always have to adapt!” But that’s Nouria, always where you least expect her.
Reta is an all around whitewater paddling enthusiast that specializes in whitewater stand up paddling. She has paddled on rivers in Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Costa Rica and Ecuador.
In addition to SUP you can always find Reta going with the flow; singing her way down a river behind the oars, working on crushing bigger lines in her kayak or trying to roll an OC1. Reta just wants to be on the water!
Reta is the founder of CANRVRSUP Instructor Collective. She started the collective to bring instructors together in hopes of supporting her passion to grow a safe community of River Stand Up Paddlers through quality instruction and training. As head instructor and Paddle Canada Certified Instructor Trainer, she plans to work with all the collective instructors to provide high quality training for all students wanting to take courses related to SUP.
Reta fell in love with SUP after she was first introduced to it in 2010. It is a sport that anyone can enjoy and the sport can be as challenging as you want it to be as you progress from flat water on lakes to whitewater on the rivers.
Bruce’s 30 years of guiding have taken him around the world, paddling and rowing the most challenging whitewater run commercially. No use listing rivers, there are too many to bother. In addition to guiding rivers, Bruce is a heli-ski guide and a ski instructor.
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