'Let the Slave Run' Wins Best Action Film at Waterwalker Festival 2010

Hard work promoting the Slave River as a word class playboating destination is finally paying off. This year Let the Slave Run has won Best Action film at the 2010 Waterwalker Festival in Canada and has been included in the line up of films in the schedule for the 2010 Reel Paddling Film Festival. A lot of positive feedback has been received about the film and we are all hoping that it will bring more paddlers to the Slaver River Paddle Fest held in July this year. More information for this years festival can be found at the Fort Smith Paddling Club website through the link below. Thanks to everyone for all of their support!

http://fskayak.webs.com/slaveriverpaddlefest.htm

Slave River 2009 from Jacqui Whitehead on Vimeo.

Slave River Playground Video

During my stay up in Fort Smith a film crew came up to take some footage of the Slave to show during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver to promote other parts of Canada as tourist destinations. Here is a nice video of the Playground (also features ''English Channel'') which shows the Slave River is for kayakers of all abilities.

 

No Dam on the Slave!

With the White Nile being dammed kayakers will be looking for alternative rivers for playboating. The Slave River in the NWT, Canada offers world class play spots, river running, and even creeking with first descents still to be run! This video shows the 4 sets of rapids on the Slave and the features each set of rapids has to offer as well as making people aware that this unique river is at threat of being dammed.

Slave River 2009 from Jacqui Whitehead on Vimeo.