Valsesia River Festival 2013 Round Up
After a month of near perfect conditions in Valsesia for Gene17′s Steep Creeking Trips, more fresh snow and blue bird days greeted paddlers for the 2013 Valsesia River Festival in Campertogno. Now in it’s third year, attracting paddlers from all over Europe, the Valsesia River Festival has action, excitement and entertainment for everyone. On the [...]
Sweet Rumble Results 2013
A great race day was had on the weekend. Saturday proved popular with almost 100 competitors, all trying to qualify on the Sesia Alpin Sprint for the Sweet Rumble. Lower water conditions, meant it was heavy going to find the fast lines and heavier going to pass the paddler in front. The spectacle in the [...]
Sesia Alpin Sprint Results 2013
Several cold nights last week made for ever dropping levels on the Sesia Alpin Sprint, so more lower water than normal. Yet lots of snow still up in the hills though after this late spring. See below for the shortened results, and head to 2013 Results for the full edition. For next year, the Valsesia [...]
Sweet Rumble BoaterX this Saturday evening
Race your friends new and old down a rapid, through a course to see who is lucky and quick In groups of 4, wave after wave of paddler’s battle it out to be the victor in BoaterX. This event will take place in Saturday late afternoon, meeting for 1700 in Campertogno, and the compulsory time [...]
Sesia Alpin Sprint – A Pyranha boat to win & getting ready with Strava
At this year’s Sesia Alpin Sprint we have a Pyranha boat to win. Plus a chance to win and not even come to the event with the Strava App. A few years ago at the Valsesia River Festival, the classic boulder garden run down the Alpin Sprint on the Sesia River was resurrected into a [...]
Palm Equipment Invites you too….
Back my very popular demand, Palm Equipment International Throwbag Olympics at this year’s Valsesia River Festival in Campertogno. To the participant, its all about speed, accuracy and rope management. For the spectator, its all about the chaos of watching would be rescues show off their skills or lack of them under pressure in a race [...]
Invitation to the Valsesia River Festival 2013
Issue: # April 2013 Your Invitation to the Valsesia River Festival 2013 Hello Paddler, Do you want to go Steep Creekin’, enjoy Italian food and love paddling? If so, we’ll bring all that together in one place, the Valsesia River Festival. This River Festival is for ALL paddlers; we have races for the competitive, clinics [...]
Races, Party, Clinics & more 2013 Winter Update
This year’s programme for the Valsesia River Festival has come to life. For 2013 we’ll going to offer more for less. Due to the events growing popularity we’re able to drop the entry price to 25€, that includes 3 nights of entertainment, 8 competitions including the Team Sesia Alpin Sprint & Sweet Rumble, plus a [...]
Valsesia River Festival 2012 Images
See the complete Valsesia River Festival 2012 Gallery See the Sesia Alpin Sprint collection The FreeRide Session Images The Sweet Rumble BoaterX Collection & images from the Gene17 Clinics And lastly, get it in your calendar for 2013, 22/26th May again in Campertogno-Valsesia
Valsesia River Festival 2012 Round Up
The sun shone, the paddlers came, races were won, fun was had and happy times were made. This past weekend in Campertogno, northern Italy was Gene17′s second Valsesia River Festival. With over 100 paddlers registered at the festival and more than 60 racing, there was a lot of paddlers enjoying the festival, that had an [...]
Sesia Alpin Sprint 2012 Final Standings
A huge thank you to Gravita’ Zero, Pyranha, Sweet, Palm Equipment & of course il Gatto e la Volpe in Campertogno. Our provisional dates for the Valsesia River Festival 2013 are 22/26 May again in Campertogno
Sweet Rumble Valsesia River Festival 2012 Standings
A huge thank you to Gravita’ Zero, Pyranha, Sweet, Palm Equipment & of course il Gatto e la Volpe in Campertogno. Our provisional dates for the Valsesia River Festival 2013 are 22/26 May again in Campertogno
Sweet BoaterX Qualification
With the Valsesia River Festival, just next week, we have decided to change the qualification for the Sweet Rumble BoaterX. There is now no Friday evening time trial, however the top 10 from the Sesia Alpin Sprint, plus up to 12 other paddlers will be the qualification. This means that for weekend paddler’s who could [...]
Your invitation to Valsesia River Festival 2012
Issue: # May 2012 Your Invitation to the VRF 2012 Dear Paddler, Do you want to go Steep Creekin’, enjoy Italian food and love paddling? If so, we’ll bring all that together in one place, the Valsesia River Festival. This River Festival is for ALL paddlers; we have races for the competitive, clinics for [...]
Our 2012 Boat Sticker
Are you ready to have one on your boat, got a team for the Sesia Alpin Sprint, or just wish to charge it out on the individual race. Why not compare your practise time with our Kayak – Sesia Alpin Sprint, Strava Segement section. The main Saturday race is for all Class III/IV paddler’s sponsored [...]
Online Booking now OPEN in English
With this year’s Valsesia River Festival a mere month away, we’ve opened up the Online Booking for english speakers, and will add Italiano soon. For paddler’s wishing to get on clinics, we strongly advise booking early so we can have all of Gene17′s plus great guest coaches available. More Options We’ve adjusted the offerings from [...]
Sesia Alpin Sprint Date & Sponsors Confirmed
We are pleased to announced that this year’s head line event at the Valsesia River Festival in Piemonte, Italy, will be the Sesia Alpin Sprint race on Saturday 2nd June. This race is from Curgo to Mollia in the high Sesia valley, down 6km of Class III/IV white water. The prefect boulder garden white water [...]
into 2012
The wait is almost over, the 2012 Valsesia River Festival programme will be coming online soon. We have a number of new sponsors, more focus on the Sesia Alpin Sprint and some of the best creeking in the Alps.
Valsesia River Festival 2011 Round Up
Thank you for coming and joining us in Valsesia. A great start for a new event. So much so, we’ll do it all again in 2012, although of course we’ll change a few things to make the event even better. Plus it’ll be Gene17′s 10th Birthday Party, so we’ve a lot to celebrate. Images from [...]
All Locations for the forthcoming Valsesia River Festival
View Valsesia River Festival locations in a larger map
New Valsesia River Festival Tee released
Our new Tee for this year’s Valsesia River Festival, designed by Pete Woods, and includes the shield of Piemonte with Monte Rosa in the background. We’ve only 150 printed, so we have a Tee for the first 150 paddlers to join us in Valsesia, next week. Pre-bookings are going well, with paddlers from all 4 [...]
Sweet Rumble and things
With arrangements in full flow, we have prefect here all week in Valsesia. The Tee design by Pete Woods, has been signed off and at the printers, Gene17′s own pop up tent is due for delivery today, and we been to see the police about you lot, nothing bad mine you, just that you’ll be [...]
Your Invitation to the VRF 2011
Do you want to go Steep Creekin’, you enjoy Italian food and love paddling? If so, we’ll bring all that together in one place, with a host of paddlers at the Valsesia River Festival. This all new festival is for ALL paddlers; we have races for the competitive, clinics for the aspiring, entertainment for the [...]
