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How to Portage with a Canoe
08.21.2007
C&K contributing editor Cliff Jacobson weighs about a Duluth pack below the national average, but there’s nothing small about his opinions. Especially when it comes to portaging. “It’s not my system,” he says. “It goes back to the early fur traders, and the Native Americans before that. Everyone did this the same way, because it [...]
Kayak Fishing on the Gulf Coast
08.21.2007
The first fin appeared about 20 minutes after we launched, a rust-colored tail weaving and wagging its way along a grassy bank about 40 feet off my bow. Straddling the stern of my kayak and kicking along the oozy bayou bottom with my boots—“Flintstoning” in local parlance after the cartoon character’s foot-powered car—I eased the [...]
August 2007 Table of Contents
08.14.2007
The August 2007 issue of Canoe & Kayak magazine is on sale now. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or paddling shop, or subscribe today! On the Cover:Joanie McGuffin greets an Ontario morning. Photo by Gary McGuffin. DESTINATIONSPortland, Maine – A paddler’s guide to Vacationland. By Sam Bass Flathead River, Montana- A 158- [...]
Potomac Whitewater Festival – Great Falls Race 2007
08.02.2007
For 364 days a year, boaters who want to run Great Falls on Maryland’s Potomac River wait for the tourists to go home, tiptoe down the access path, and quietly snap their sprayskirts in the pool above one of the East Coast’s premier Class V drops. For one day each summer, however, local paddlers organize [...]
California Kayaker Attacked by Shark
07.27.2007
BEAN HOLLOW STATE BEACH, CALIFORNIA – Dan Prather was smiling after his July 21 extreme close-up with a suspected great white shark. His boat didn’t fare as well. Friends of the Concord, California kayaker said the bow of his red Hobie Adventure sit-on-top was scratched, scuffed, cracked, and holed when a large shark believed to [...]
Fishing Kayaks Review 2007
07.27.2007
Ratings defined Speed: more stars indicate increasing speed. Maneuverability: measures ease of turning. Higher scores denote quick-carving kayaks; few stars indicate boats that easily hold their heading. Stability: measures the subjective feeling of ‘tippiness.’ Higher scoring boats feel rock-steady. Lower scoring boats have more wobble in them but may actually be less prone to turtle [...]
Red Canoe – South Fork
07.12.2007
It’s fitting that Red enters Idaho waters at the base of Palisades Dam. Without the Snake River’s dozens of impoundments, there’d be no Famous Potatoes on the state’s license plates. For that matter, without the moderating effect Palisades has on river conditions, there’d be fewer trout in this section—at least of the nonnative brown and [...]
Red Canoe – Jackson Hole
07.12.2007
Jackson Hole Paddling the Snake in Wyoming’s brutal winter historically has been regarded as the height of foolhardiness. That reputation was forged in 1876, when Lt. Gustavus Doane and six soldiers set out to explore the entirety of the Snake, from Yellowstone to the Columbia. The expedition was a disaster. Travel was slow in the [...]
The J-Stroke
07.12.2007
Gunwale, yoke, thwart, tumblehome? Canoeing has it’s own language. At least the J-stroke, the movement most commonly used to propel a solo canoe, is what it sounds like—the paddle blade traces a letter “J” as it provides forward momentum while keeping the boat tracking in a straight line. 1. Reach forward to plant the blade [...]
Red Canoe – Journey down the Snake
07.12.2007
Leg One – Oxbow Bend – Grand Teton National ParkRed has seen more abuse than most 17-foot Dagger Ventures her age, but never conditions like this……… Leg Two – Jackson HolePaddler:Jim StanfordPaddling the Snake in Wyoming’s brutal winter historically has been regarded as the height of foolhardiness……..
Canoe Costa Rica
07.10.2007
Costa Rica holds bragging rights to endless beaches, fertile valleys, rugged cloud-forested mountains, and more than 100 volcanoes.
Red Canoe – Oxbow Bend
07.06.2007
Red has seen more abuse than most 17-foot Dagger Ventures her age, but never conditions like this. It’s the middle of January, and Jackson, Wyo., is in the midst of an unusually bitter cold snap. On the way to the river this morning the car’s thermometer read 27 below and a sign on the road [...]
Glacier Park Family Paddle Trip
07.03.2007
Since moving down from Alaska a few years ago, I have longed for a place with the same glacier-sculpted landscape, where grizzlies lounge in pristine creeks, munching on salmon. In all the lower 48, I’ve only found one place that comes close: Glacier National Park in Montana. The park straddles the Rocky Mountains as they [...]
July 2007 Table of Contents
06.26.2007
Go Fish! with our special Kayak Fishing Issue of Canoe & Kayak magazine – on sale now. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or paddling shop, or subscribe today! On the Cover:Testing fishing kayaks in northern Baja, Mexico. Photo by Rober Zaleski. DESTINATIONSDenver, Colorado – Get wet in the high country. By Doug [...]
June 2007 Table of Contents – Canoe & Kayak Magazine
06.19.2007
The special Rafting Issue of Canoe & Kayak is on sale now. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or paddling shop, or subscribe today! On the Cover:Paddle-rafting Costa Rica’s Rio Reventazon. Photo by Paul Villecourt. DESTINATIONS Adventures in Tasmania – Ecology and Culture in the land beyond the seas. By John Bowermaster Living [...]
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