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Feds Order Removal Of White Salmon’s Condit Dam
12.16.2010
American Whitewater Staff Report Published: December 16, 2010 The prospect of removing Condit Dam on the White Salmon River moved closer to reality today in a significant ruling from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioning formally ordering the removal of the dam. This past October the State of Washington gave their final approval for the project [...]
Paddlesports In The News
12.16.2010
News from around the paddlesports world… Olympic Countdown People love counting down the days til Christmas, and while that’s all well and good—it ’tis the season—there’s another countdown underway across the pond. Of course you probably know this already, but there’s something like 589 days until the 2012 London Olympics commence. BBC London, for one, [...]
Roundup
12.15.2010
People love counting down the days til Christmas, and while that’s all well and good—it ’tis the season—there’s another countdown underway across the pond. Of course you probably know this already, but there’s something like 589 days until the 2012 London Olympics commence. BBC London, for one, is already counting down. Recently, the BBC visited [...]
Dam Troubling
12.14.2010
British Columbia’s Ashlu before and after (below) Years ago, Edward Abbey fathered a radical environmental movement with the fictional account of George Washington Hayduke, a man who sought to blow up the Colorado River’s massive Glen Canyon Dam. Abbey’s 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang grew out of his experience paddling amid the sandstone arches [...]
Book Review: Reading the River
12.11.2010
By Conor Mihell Published: December 10, 2010 Laurel Archer has made a living going where almost no canoes have gone before. She takes 17-foot trippers down the wild rivers of northern British Columbia like the Stikine and Tatshenshini—rivers typically reserved for creekboats and rafts. Archer cut her teeth paddling the big, historic fur-trade rivers of [...]
Instructor Profiles: Dominick Greco
12.10.2010
Courtesy Dominick Greco Fishing guides inherently live a life less ordinary. And for that segment of the outdoor working class, Dominick Greco’s story is even more atypical. He guides from a kayak, has done a stint in Tinsel Town and has been showing people where to fish since his youth, guiding for stripers when we [...]
Debriefing: Deception Pass Dash
12.10.2010
By Tim Mutrie Published: December 9, 2010 The winner of the ladies surfski division, Heather Nelson, is seven months pregnant. Paddlers of all stripes—kayaks, outriggers, rowing skulls, SUPs—included at least two 70-year-olds and one former Olympian, Sherri Cassuto, who won her sea kayak class for a third year straight. With skies an unlikely shade of [...]
Chelan River: The Next Washington Classic?
12.03.2010
Central Washington’s Chelan River goes against the grain of typical Pacific Northwest whitewater. It features the same technical slots, big drops and massive boulders of classic runs like the White Salmon, Skykomish and Snoqualmie, but the water is warm and the scenery decidedly arid. And yet today the four-mile section of burly Class V drops [...]
No River For Old Men
12.03.2010
When Chris went down with a broken leg halfway through the portage, I started doing the numbers—25 miles against a strong current back to the put-in, then God knows how long a hike to the nearest home. No way. The takeout was 52 miles downstream, through a dozen named rapids we’d never seen. That would [...]
Instructor Profiles: Wayne Dickert
12.02.2010
Photo by Patrick Cavan Brown While Wayne “Wayner” Dickert is working toward his Master of Divinity degree at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C., it’s on the water, preaching his paddling wisdom, where he truly shines. “I like to teach a concept and work around that, rather than just a skill,” says the 1996 [...]
Running The ‘Last Great Unknown Canyon In Peru’
12.02.2010
“I mean, it wasn’t like a bullet-proof plan. But it was good enough.” — Matt Wilson Of the major tributaries that flow from the Andes into the Amazon River, only one section of one of them—The Great Bend of Rio Huallaga, in central Peru—could be classified as unknown at the beginning of 2010. Much of [...]
Once ‘Round The Big One
12.01.2010
Lucas Will and Greg Petry’s dream to paddle around Lake Superior began five years ago. As roommates and outdoor education students at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD), Will, 30 and Petry, 29 talked about their passion for the lake and how it had shaped their lives. They promised each other that in the summer of [...]
Instructor Profiles: Les Bechdel
11.25.2010
Photo by Alpenglow Press For McCall, Idaho’s Les Bechdel, rescue should be a vital part of any paddling instruction program. He should know. An ACA instructor-trainer for the Nantahala Outdoor Center for 10 years, it was the drowning of an NOC raft guide that led to his co-authoring River Rescue with Slim Ray in 1985, [...]
C&K’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide Part 2
11.24.2010
Teva continues evolving from its humble Velcro sandal roots into more lifestyle-oriented, yet functional riverside footwear. Case in point: the new Kayode Mid, a flexible Mush-infused insole paired with a rugged outsole and suede leather/canvas upper that keeps your ankles covered during any holiday snow stompings ($90). Too much fashion over function? The worthy Sling [...]
C&K’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
11.23.2010
You won’t find many waterproof-breathable jackets as reasonably priced as Immersion Research’s Zephyr. One hundred bucks gets you a foul-weather friend for drizzly days on the water, with a unique anti-microbial mesh liner to prevent post-paddling funk ($110, www.immersionresearch.com). Cut off an extra slice this holiday season: Give your paddler more slice through [...]
Video: Kate Wagner on the White Salmon
11.19.2010
Soulful look at paddler Kate Wagner on one of her local favorites, the White Salmon River, in fall, by filmmaker Skip Armstrong and Banks Mag. — C&K Staff Kayaking the White Salmon River, Autumn – Kate Wagner from The Banks Mag on Vimeo.
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