Author Archives: "CanoeKayak.com"
LESSONS FROM THE RIVER: Ditch the Heavy Stuff
Dispatch No. 4 from C&K Online Editor Dave Costello’s week at First Descents.
LESSONS FROM THE RIVER: Self-Rescue
Dispatch No. 3 from C&K Online Editor Dave Costello’s week at First Descents.
Memories of Distant Summers
P.G. Downes newly published journals reveal the ways of the Old North.
LESSONS FROM THE RIVER: Keep Paddling
Dispatch No. 2 from C&K Online Editor Dave Costello’s week at First Descents.
LESSONS FROM THE RIVER: We’re All Just In Between Swims
Dispatch No. 1 from C&K Online Editor Dave Costello’s week at First Descents.
Video: The 2012 Little White Salmon Race
A look inside the 2012 AWP Point Series Little White Salmon Creeking Race.
Video: The New Dagger Jitsu
Rush Sturges checks in with a sneak peek at Dagger’s new playboat on Skookumchuck, the Ottawa, St. Lawrence, and Maruia Falls.
Let Them Paddle
A review of C&K editor-at-large Alan Kesselheim’s new book, which explores how paddling has shaped the lives of his three children, and the looming epidemic of “nature deficit disorder.”
In Their Own Words: Birch-Bark Odyssey
Dan Blessing and Marc VanGrinsven’s 4,000 mile journey from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean in a homemade birch-bark canoe.
Video: Bam, After the Falls
C&K staffer Michael Gordon recently ran into Bam Margera of MTV’s popular television series “Jackass,” in Iceland of all places, and couldn’t help but ask him about his most recent stunt with pro kayaker Steve Fisher: Hucking himself off Oregon’s 88-foot Metlako Falls in the front seat of a Jackson Dynamic Duo.
En Route: The Wilderness Classroom (Lake Superior)
Six weeks have passed since Dave and Amy Freeman set out on Lake Superior by kayak and began making their way towards the Atlantic Ocean. This is the fifth stage of their North American Wilderness Classroom Odyssey, a cross-continental trip by dogsled, kayak, and canoe.
En Route: The Trans-Territorial Canoe Expedition
Photos and stories from the beginning of a 2600-mile canoe expedition through Canada’s Territories.
The 50-Year Itch
Saturday, June 11, 2012, marked the 50th anniversary of the annual Texas Water Safari, a 260-mile canoe race held the second Saturday of every June since 1963 on the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers, from San Marcos to Seadrift, Texas .
Borderline Crazy
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to support an omnibus bill that would waive environmental legislation like the Endangered Species Act, the Wilderness Act and the Clean Water Act and transfer full control of a 100-mile-wide strip of land along the United States’ northern and southern boundaries to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Voting Now Open for Canoe & Kayak Awards
Canoe & Kayak magazine is pleased to announce that voting for the first annual Canoe & Kayak Awards presented by Zeal Optics is now open in all categories.
Of Souls + Water: The Shapeshifter
What’s cooler than watching Ben Marr shredding big waves in Quebec? Watching him do it with road flares strapped to the stern deck of his kayak at night.
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