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Back to the Amazon
10.09.2009
When Canadian filmmaker Chris Forde paddled the Mississippi River with Don and Dana Starkell a few summers ago, he couldn’t help but feel he was part of the original 1980 father and son journey from Winnipeg, Manitoba to the mouth of the Amazon River. “They were pretty much using the same equipment they had on [...]
C&K On Assignment
10.07.2009
C&K On Assignment Wabakimi Provincial Park Imagine a tract of roadless wilderness the size of the Boundary Waters and Quetico combined that’s laced with whitewater rivers and interconnected lakes, peppered with smoothrock campsites and is home to one of North America’s most southerly herds of woodland caribou. At 2.2 million acres, northwestern Ontario’s Wabakimi Provincial [...]
Outdoor Retailer Moves to back to August
10.02.2009
Outdoor Retailer Moves to back to August Organizer announces discounts for paddlesports companies San Diego, Calif. – This week Nielsen Business Media and the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) Paddle Council announced that Outdoor Retailer Summer Market (OR) will move from July to the first week in August 2010. Boat exhibitors also will receive discounted booth [...]
The Hurricane Riders | Pushing Sea Kayaking to the Edge
10.01.2009
The Hurricane Riders Pushing Sea Kayaking to the Edge Like so many nefarious plans, the idea for The Hurricane Riders was hatched in a Volkswagen Van. In January 2008, after a stormy day paddling off West Vancouver’s Ambleside Beach, sea kayak instructors James Dunderdale and Marty Perry took shelter in Dunderdale’s bus, where they passed [...]
Rivers Revolution
09.23.2009
Rivers Revolution Mark Angelo never imagined that by rounding up some paddler friends and rafting British Columbia’s Thompson River on a September afternoon in 1980 he’d start a global environmental movement. “We cleaned up garbage and debris from the river and hired a tug to pull some old car wrecks off the river banks,” says [...]
Tom Bergh Unfiltered
09.16.2009
Tom Bergh’s moustache is older than most of the folks he boats with. He makes his living paddling, and if you pry, he’ll tell about self-supported missions to the ends of the earth, but he’s not your typical pro. He is a guide, first and foremost. It’s a role he values in a deep way. [...]
Women Sprint Canoeist Want Shot at Olympic Glory
08.27.2009
When Washington, D.C.-based paddler Pamela Boteler began her sprint canoe-racing career, she could only compete against men. Sprint, or “high-kneel” canoeing, has been an Olympic sport since 1936. But only in 2002 did USA Canoe/Kayak establish national competition for women sprinters, and only twice has the International Canoe Federation (ICF) allowed women to compete in [...]
Gear Guide Listings Legend
08.26.2009
KAYAKS: USAGE: CR–Casual Recreation; ST–Sea Touring; WW–Whitewater; SQ–Squirt Boats; WS–Whitewater Slalom; DR–Downriver; OF–Olympic Flatwater; OT–Open Top; WV–Wave Skis; SK–Surf Kayak; SY–Specialty; “T” at front indicates tandem boat; MATERIALS: CO–Composite; TH–Thermoform; RO–Rotomolded; SF–Fabric skin/frame; WO–Wood; BOLD= new product for 2010 CANOES: USAGE: CR–Casual Recreation; TR–Touring; CS–Cruising; WT–Wilderness Tripping; WW–Whitewater; DC–Decked Canoe; DR–Downriver; SP-Sportsmen; ST-Sport; SY-Specialty; “S” [...]
Spine Tingling
08.18.2009
THE DEFINITION OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE IS EXPLODING IN EVERY SEGMENT OF PADDLESPORTS, but none more so than whitewater kayaking, where young boaters have been chasing the waterfall world record with incredible audacity. The mark has been eclipsed four times in 21 months, culminating in Tyler Bradt’s 186-foot styling of Washington’s Palouse Falls, April 21. Please [...]
Fish On Ice – Kayak Fishing
08.12.2009
“This is the big one,” Chris Mautino says as we pause our kayaks beneath the dark cliff at the mouth of Holgate Arm. Our destination is the icy heart of Aialik Bay, but to reach it, we must cross the yawning mouth of this tributary fjord. Some five miles away but looming so large it [...]
Nahanni Gold: Iconic Canadian watershed preserved
08.10.2009
Iconic Canadian watershed preserved By: Conor Mihell The silver anniversary of Nahanni River Adventures has been a golden year for owner Neil Hartling. Northern Canada’s iconic South Nahanni River, one of many wild waterways originating in the mountainous spine of the Northwest Territories, has always been the centerpiece of Hartling’s canoe and raft outfitting operations. [...]
Alcatraz Outrigger Canoe Race
08.06.2009
2009 Round the Rock Alcatraz Challenge In San Francisco California Put on by The Northern California Outrigger Canoe Association.
C&K’s Ocean Performance Picks
07.31.2009
C&K’s Ocean Performance Picks Pick your poison: overhead set waves, a sprint through the breakers, or miles of open-water cruising (from your feet or your seat). C&K has you covered with 10 of the latest rides for the life aquatic. From central Cali surf to the inlets of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, we had the [...]
Pack It
07.28.2009
PACK IT Packable Crafts for any Paddling Mission That innate desire to get up and move won’t stop nagging. And that need to venture across the water, to chase the next horizon, often extends far past the reach of your primary car-topped craft. Rack and roll only gets you so far, and when your paddling [...]
Texas Water Safari
07.16.2009
TEXAS WATER SAFARI Words by Larry Rice Photographs by Blake Gordon I’m not one to take fortune cookies seriously, but this one nearly made me choke on my moo goo gai pan. “Watch out for little problems that could get a lot bigger,” it warned. If the little problems Marc “Canoeman” McCord and I had [...]
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