Anyone for some hydrospeed?

It is hard to believe but the end of the ski season is approaching, though given the snow this year we are still hopeful of skiing well into April. Nevertheless, plans for other outdoor activities must be made. With the big snowfalls this year it would seem that white-water rafting could be fun - but then I came across something new to me - hydrospeed. Having persuaded Caroline do go skiing do you think she might try this out as well? See the video. It looks to be great fun.



From Wikipedia "Riverboarding is believed to have originated in the late 1970s. It is claimed to have originated in France, when raft guides stuffed a burlap mail sack with life vests and went down rapids. Soon, riders adapted a personal submarine shell for their molds and the plastic version of the riverboard was born. Sometime in the late 1980s, Carlson began running rivers in California using an ocean bodyboard and ended up making his own board that was bigger, thicker and handles.

European riders also developed a foam version (called a hydrospeed ) of the plastic board to reduce weight and avoid injuring each other during collisions that sometimes resulted from one rider travelling downstream and another facing upstream while surfing a hydraulic. Today, homemade foam hydrospeeds are found primarily among European riders. A growing sport in North America, riverboarding has grown in popularity from media exposure and the emergence of commercial operators running riverboard trips."

More information on white-water sports in the Haute-Savoie