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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 [...]
Sitka Sound Ocean Adventure Race
06.19.2007
Race co-founder Mark Gorman claimed the overall title in the inaugural Sitka Sound Ocean Adventure Race on Saturday. The race for any human-powered watercraft benefited the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society, which is renovating a historic boat house so it can be used as a museum. The entrants used kayaks, rowing sculls and two Tlingit warrior [...]
North Coast Surf Kayak Festival – Hobuck Hoedown
06.15.2007
The first annual Hobuck Hoedown – the North Coast Surf Kayaking Festival was a resounding success. The Memorial Day Festival was located on the Olympic Peninsula at Hobuck Beach near Cape Flattery ( a Makah Indian Nation town), the extreme Northwestern point of the continental USA. The festival, the first of its kind in the [...]
Bear Paw Resort Destroyed in Tornado
06.14.2007
Severe storms that ripped through the Midwest June 7 destroyed much of the Bear Paw Outdoor Adventure Resort in Northeast Wisconsin, leveling buildings and throwing kayaks and merchandise across the highway and into the trees. Co-owner Jamee Peters watched from the basement of one of 10 buildings on the 25-acre property near White Lake, Wisconsin, [...]
Canoe Paddle Review 2007
06.06.2007
A paddle is to canoeing what a pair of hiking boots is to backpacking—the wrong choice becomes painfully obvious about ten minutes into the trip, and no matter how long you keep slogging, it won’t let you forget. Not for a minute. Spending time bandaging blisters instead of enjoying your surroundings is a bummer, especially [...]
Teva Mountain Games 2007 – Summary
06.05.2007
Familiar faces captured the paddling podium at this year’s Teva Mountain Games, which wrapped up this weekend in Vail, Colorado. Paddling legend Eric Jackson took first in both the men’s paddlecross and freestyle events, while Nikki Kelly and Tao Berman absconded with the steep creek race crowns for women and men, respectively. Teva Games ’07 [...]
Whitewater Hall of Fame Nominations for 2007 Elections
06.05.2007
The nominees for the 2007 Class of Inductees into the International Whitewater Hall of Fame have been selected in four categories: Advocate, Champion, Explorer and Pioneer. The nominees are: Advocate: Bill Endicott (USA), Kent Ford (USA), Dave Kurtz (USA), Bill Mason (Canada), William Nealy (USA), and Risa Shimoda (USA) Champion: Dana Chladek (USA), Eric Evans [...]
Teva Mountain Games 2007 – Day One
05.31.2007
The Teva Mountain Games kicked off in Vail today with the Dowd Chute raft and kayak paddlecross competitions. Raft teams and kayakers ran down the Class IV Dowd Chute section of the Eagle River as the athletes charged through the boulders in the race against the clock. The winners : Dowd Chute Paddlecross Men’s Kayak [...]
Teva Mountain Games 2007
05.30.2007
At next weekend’s Teva Mountain Games in Vail, over 2,000 pro and amateur athletes are expected to compete in more than two dozen kayaking, rafting, running, biking, climbing and fishing competitions. However, outdoor competition is only half of the story at the Teva Mountain Games. The five-day festival is pleased to announce a nightly line [...]
Adventure Sports Center
05.23.2007
After 4 years of dreaming, planning, designing, and constructing,The Adventure Sports Center will open May 25th to welcome boaters to western Maryland , just in time for Memorial Day Weekend. The project has raised the bar for whitewater course design worldwide. The designers (McLaughlin Whitewater Design Team) were optimistic about the design since the drawings [...]
8 Days on the Steel River
05.18.2007
Our chief navigator is having difficulties locating the portage trail, which, he says, will take us straight up a steep ridge to a chain of lakes and obscure paths that eventually will lead to the Steel River, a rarely paddled southern Ontario waterway. With compass and GPS in hand, Cliff plots our position on the [...]
Kayak Fishing Classic
05.14.2007
In the wake of subtropical storm Andrea, great fishing weather prevailed as 282 kayak fisherman took to the inshore waters of North Florida in the 4th annual Jacksonville Kayak Fishing Classic. With over $60,000 in prizes, 100 sponsors, and 282 paddlers, the Classic is once again the largest kayak fishing event in the world to [...]
Teva Games Gets More Dam Water
05.14.2007
For the past several years, the world’s best kayakers have raced down Homestake Creek, a steep, low-volume river outside of Redcliff, Colorado, as part of the annual Teva Mountain Games in Vail. The problem: someone on foot could easily beat them–there was too little water in the creek to make the race seem legit. This [...]
Reno River Festival 2007
05.13.2007
The Truckee River Whitewater Park in downtown Reno, Nevada was host to an estimated 30,000 spectators who jammed the riverbank to see some of the world’s top river boaters compete in the fourth annual Reno River Festival. The festival celebrations took place in Reno’s typically gorgeous sunny weather and included a kayak expo with dozens [...]
Whitewater Kayak Review – 2007
05.09.2007
THE FIELD CREW Brian Fields Occupation: Manager, Alder Creek Canoe and Kayak Hometown: Portland, Ore. Favorite Run: Washougal, Wash. Last swam on: Oregon Coast at 12ft. Ken Pitta Occupation: Electrician, owner/ operator playboatingnorthwest.com Hometown: Portland, Ore. Favorite Run: Wilson above seven ft. Last swam on: Molalla River, Ore. Chad Randol Occupation: Head of athletics, University [...]
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