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Berman: $500 Says No One Can Beat Me
06.01.2010
Tao Berman has a deal for you: If you can beat him in the Lyons Outdoors Games’ extreme race June 12 he’ll pay you $500, bringing the first-place payday to $1,000. But Berman also struck a deal for himself: If he wins by at least two seconds he gets the $1,000 cash purse, plus another [...]
Middle Eastern Surf
05.27.2010
Maybe you hadn’t heard but Israel has waves? Good waves. And a group of hardcore surf kayakers to ride these Mediterranean peelers. Check out this clip of a recent surf session in the Holy Land.
Dirtbag Diaries: Augrabies Gorge, Orange River, South Africa
05.27.2010
I met Rob Wilson when I was 15. He was the trip leader on my first commercial river guide job on the Orange River in South Africa, a mighty drainage that tumbles down the slopes of the Lesotho in the Drakensberg Mountains 2,000 kilometers before emptying into the Atlantic. I next ran into Rob on [...]
Crossing Over
05.24.2010
When it comes to mastering a single blade, Hawaii’s Slater Trout is hoping he can excel sitting down and standing up. The 15-year-old standup star, a freshman at Maui Preparatory Academy, is going from reeling in standup paddleboarding awards to kneeling in Olympic-style C-1s. And he’s doing a bang-up job. “He’s shown more talent than [...]
Colorado Season Opener
05.21.2010
Colorado Season Opener Paddlefest kicks off another season of boating in the mecca of whitewater At the center of the whitewater mecca of Colorado is the town of Buena Vista. Once a sleepy, mining outpost southwest of Denver, Buena Vista is now the site of a funky downtown community designed by whitewater kayakers and siblings [...]
Finally: A Paddling Game for your iPhone
05.18.2010
Josh Blazer is not a full-time developer, just someone who loves kayaking and does a little programming on the side for fun. His coding brainchild, “Extreme Sports Kayaking” was just approved and released for sale on Apple’s iTunes Store. Check it out at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/extreme-sports-kayaking/id371152361?mt=8 Or: http://sites.google.com/site/joshblazergames/ The current assistant vice president and regional director of [...]
Rock Recap
05.18.2010
It’s hard to believe that before Saturday, Red Bull-sponsored whitewater kayaker Tao Berman had never launched in his kayak off a ramp and into a river, especially with all the seasons he spent at the Oregon Cup, where ramp-hucking was an annual event. But at the big air ramp event at Richmond, VA’s annual Dominion [...]
When You Get Your Life Back
05.17.2010
BY ALAN KESSELHEIM On Friday I learned that I had a malignant tumor in my left eye. The doctor was certain. The first thing, he said, is to find out if it has metastasized. If it has gone to your liver, it’s time to get your affairs in order. If it hasn’t, there are things [...]
Rocking the River
05.12.2010
If there’s one thing common to urban development in North America, it’s the critical role rivers have played in settling the landscape. Most major U.S. cities are built on a body of water of one form or another, but few have embraced the natural assets of their riverfront like Richmond, Virginia. According to former world [...]
Mini Raft Mayhem
05.11.2010
Last June, Canoe & Kayak Associate Editor Dave Shively set out to test the heck out of four slick, two-paddler rafts. Four rivers in five days across Colorado’s Rocky Mountain runoff yielded high water (7,500 cfs on the Colorado’s Shoshone stretch; 3,000 on the Royal Gorge), technical low water (450 on the Piedra), and stupid [...]
Hotel Charley 5
05.11.2010
Enjoy creekin? Ben Stookesberry’s Hotel Charley 5 is due to be released this spring in celebration of the steeps . Here’s a sneak peak of the gnar, including their first descent of Mexico’s Rio Pixalta. Hotel_Charley_5_Teaser from Ben Stookesberry on Vimeo.
Nick Troutman Wins Reno River Festival
05.10.2010
In his hometown coming out party in the men’s division, junior World Champion and Reno Native Jason Craig took second at the Reno River Festival, coming up short to current men’s World Champion Nick Troutman. It was a huge day for the Jackson clan as Troutman’s wife Emily took the women’s title……Read more
Love Your Mother
05.06.2010
Kevin Callan never imagined that one woman’s love of canoeing in pristine Ontario wilderness areas would create a global movement to clean up and rediscover “lost” canoe routes. Callan, a well-known Canadian canoeist and author of 12 canoeing and camping guidebooks, is organizing the fifth annual Great Wilderness Clean-up this weekend. The grassroots event started [...]
The Lighter Side of The Wave:
05.06.2010
— A version of this story appears in 2010 issue of C&K’s Whitewater, available on newsstands everywhere now Advanced composites like Kevlar and carbon fiber have made their mark in everything from Tour de France race bikes to backcountry avalanche probes to tent poles. We’ve been using composite paddles for years, but only recently have [...]
Coolest. Celebrity. Ever.
05.05.2010
Read C&K’s editor Jeff Moag’s interview with celebrity canoeist Nick Offerman here
Vertical Reality
05.05.2010
Vertical Reality EddyFlower and First Descents team up to make the most of time on the water According to professional whitewater kayaker Brad Ludden, the rationale behind the fourth annual EddyFlower Vertical Challenge is simple. “It’s just another reason to paddle,” he says, “as if boaters need another reason to get out on the water.” [...]
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