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Yukon 1000: The Last Great Race
07.12.2010
By Conor Mihell Peter Coates uses unorthodox methods to market the grueling 1,000-mile paddling race he organizes on the Yukon River. Streaming in bold letters across the top of the website for the Yukon 1000 Canoe and Kayak Race is the question, “Do you really want to do this?” Last summer, 17 teams of paddlers [...]
Pick-up Sticks – Greenland Style Kayaking
07.09.2010
By Conor Mihell While other facets of paddlesports have ebbed and flowed in popularity, Greenland-style paddling – that is, using the ancient techniques and narrow-bladed “stick” of the early Arctic sea kayakers – has experienced steady growth over the past decade. A case in point of traditional paddling’s popularity is the series of Greenland-specific kayak [...]
Packing A Canoe Pack
07.08.2010
Canadian Kevin Callan is the author of twelve books, including the best selling The Happy Camper, a popular series of paddling guides, and his latest Wilderness Pleasures: A Practical Guide to Camping Bliss. To fellow Canadians, he’s a national canoeing treasure. To Americans, his humor might seem a bit random. But one thing is certain: [...]
Canoe Cinema: This Is Canoeing and The Canoe Movie
07.07.2010
By Joe Carberry Photography by Janusz Wrobel Paddling filmmakers Will Lyons and Justine Curgenven couldn’t be more opposite. Lyons is a dirtbag C-1 boater from Asheville, N.C., who thrives on the Green River Narrows and is part of the Lunch Video Magazine staff. Curgenven is a sea kayaker from Wales whose achievements include impressive circumnavigations [...]
2010 Freestyle Kayak Team Trials Wrap-Up
07.06.2010
Last weekend, Missoula, Montana played host to the U.S. Team trials. Here, C&K video correspondent Tom Gerencer (who became an Internet hero with his Wet Dream Results trailer) recaps the trials including Dane Jackson’s three national titles.
Aquaphile: Crossing The Threshold
07.01.2010
By Alan Kesselheim Photography by Kyle George Crouching by the three-strand barbed wire, fencing pliers in hand, my neck hairs prickle in anticipation, waiting for the hard violence of a shotgun barrel at the base of my skull. Cutting fence in Montana is up there with stealing water on the roster of mortal sins. I [...]
Colossal Effort – The River Gypsies’ Guide To North America
06.30.2010
Two hundred and ninety three river sections, nine regions, four years of work and one big continent. The numeric facts behind the whitewater tome, The River Gypsies Guide to North America says it all. Andria and Leland Davis, aka the River Gypsies, have attempted an incredible feet with one guidebook for one enormous continent. “We [...]
Twisted Sisters
06.25.2010
If you paddle in Hood River, Ore., chances are good you boat with a few fearless female kayakers. Kayakers like Christie Glissmeyer, who notched the women’s waterfall world record on 82-foot Metlako Falls last year and bartends at night to accommodate her paddling schedule. Or paddlers like Kate Wagner and Melissa DeCarlo, who regularly join [...]
Standup Before Standup – Jim Snyder, Fletcher Burton, Nigel Foster
06.25.2010
Lately it seems as if standup paddling is everywhere you look. The movie stars are doing it, your river buddy just bought one, and the crossover sport utilizing bulbous surfboards and elongated single-blade paddles is even showing up in your favorite paddling magazine. But in case you missed it, let us be the first to [...]
34th Annual North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority’s Mattawa River Canoe Race
06.24.2010
Pattison Outdoor Advertising presents the 34th Annual North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority’s Mattawa River Canoe Race on July 24th, 2010. 64km Canoe Race – Race Start 7am-9am (scheduled category starts) Olmsted Beach, North Bay, Ontario 13 km Family Race – Race Start 12 noon Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park, Mattawa Area, Ontario *NEW* – 13km Junior [...]
Paddling In Circles – Joe O’Blenis
06.22.2010
By Conor Mihell Photography by John-Paul Marion The oval-shaped perimeter of the largest island in the Pacific Northwest has become a proving ground for speed-oriented sea kayakers. This summer, Canadian Joe O’Blenis is attempting to reclaim his record for lapping the 750-mile perimeter of Vancouver Island, which he set with a 23-day trip in 2007. [...]
The Scandinavian Frontier of Freestyle
06.21.2010
Canadian whitewater boater Tyler Curtis thought he’d never find a river that could match the diversity of play features of his beloved Ottawa River until he ventured to Norway five years ago. Curtis was initially drawn to Scandinavia for its plethora of steep, big-water creeks, the likes made famous by the Teton Gravity Research films, [...]
Canada’s Unofficial River Rally – Kipawa
06.18.2010
Low water levels have caused the official cancellation of the Kipawa River Rally, a popular Canadian whitewater festival on the Kipawa River, a tributary of the Ottawa River. According to Peter Karwacki, a member of Les Amis de la Riviere Kipawa (Friends of the Kipawa River), the river is flowing at “fall levels…the lowest we’ve [...]
Idaho’s Crown Jewel Blows Up
06.16.2010
In the last two weeks, record rain sent the North Fork of the Payette sky rocketing to unprecedented levels, tipping the USGS gauges between 8-9,000 CFS. Calling it historic isn’t a stretch. Jacob’s Ladder was dialed at never-before-paddled levels when James Byrd and Tristan McClaren fired up the gnar. Want to see what it looks [...]
British Invasion – Sea Kayak Review
06.15.2010
Eventually you have to make the call: British or North American-style sea kayak? Choose wisely. The distinction between our continent’s roomier, ruddered battle wagons and the Brits’ high-strung steeds is a cornerstone tenet of sea kayak snobbery. Conflating the two, one English member of our boat-test team patiently explained, is like confusing a bowl of [...]
Berman Backs Up Bet at Lyons
06.14.2010
Extreme racer Tao Berman flew home to Hood River, Oregon, Sunday $1,500 richer and stocked with a year’s supply of his favorite beer: Oskar Blues’ famous Dale’s Pale Ale. This, thanks to his dominating performance at the Lyons’ Outdoor Games’ extreme race and the $500 bet he placed on himself a week prior. “He f****** [...]
Northern Forest Canoe Trail Celebrating 10 Years
06.14.2010
WAITSFIELD, Vt. – Hundreds of canoe and kayak enthusiasts will gather in Rangeley,Maine, July 23-25 to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Inc. (NFCT). The organization created and manages the 740-mile recreational water trail by the same name that stretches from Old Forge, N.Y. to northern Maine. Activities planned for the NFCT Paddler’s Rendezvous [...]
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