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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 [...]
Canoe & Kayak, May 2007 – Table of Contents
05.08.2007
This latest issue of Canoe & Kayak is on sale now. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or paddling shop, or subscribe today! FEATURES Brothers on the Bashkaus – Perestroika, pork fat and homemade rafts. By Eugene Buchanan Legends on the Steel – Step aside, Brangelina. Meet canoeing’s celebrities. By Larry Rice Peter [...]
Miami2Maine Project
05.08.2007
At a festive send-off event at the Ronald W. Shane Watersports Center in Miami Beach, Pellegrino launched her boat into the surf and officially began her Miami2Maine project. She will paddle almost 2,000 miles in 11 weeks (approximately 40 miles per day) and hopes to reach Camden, Maine in late July. She will make 74 [...]
Permit Lottery for Colorado River
05.07.2007
Grand Canyon National Park will accept lottery applications for calendar year 2008 self guided Colorado River permits, beginning May 1, 2007. The open period to join the lottery will close at 12:00 noon (Arizona time) on May 28, 2007. The lottery drawing will take place on May 31st. The lottery is a new permit distribution [...]
Light in Liquid – Premiere
05.03.2007
We may be a decade removed from the paddling film heyday of the late ’90s, but you wouldn’t have guessed it by the energy in Fort Collins, Colorado, on April 19, where Adrian Matthew Glasenapp’s long-anticipated Light in Liquid premiered to a packed house at the New Belgium brewery. The event served as a fundraiser [...]
10 Most Endangered Rivers
04.11.2007
Rivers come in all shapes and sizes, and vary from pristine to heavily polluted, but it’s generally safe to assume that water is a common denominator among them. For the Santa Fe, 2007’s Most Endangered River, water is the missing ingredient, leaving this once-thriving river a dry, weed-choked ditch most of the year. The Santa [...]
Sea Kayak Technique – Skeg Adjustment
04.10.2007
first appeared in Canoe & Kayak, May 07 by Justine Curgenven In 2001 I embarked on my first big kayak adventure—the first sea kayak circumnavigation of Wales. I was determined to prove myself to my paddling mentor, Fiona Whitehead, who had invited me to join her. We started on the island of Anglesey at the [...]
Whitewater ’07 Table of Contents
04.09.2007
FEATURES HOT SHOTS – For your viewing pleasure – waterfalls, waves and boats from California to Canada. THE INSIDERS – a C & K exclusive report: Six local paddlers dish their secret stashes. GREASE GOSPEL -Hitchin’ a ride with the Oil and Water Project in Panama. By Joe Carberry PHOTO ESSAY: DOMINICA – Pirates in [...]
Canoe & Kayak roof Top Racks
04.09.2007
by Dexter MahaffeyCanoe & Kayak Web Exclusive4/9/07 I hate lugging my crap around. I’m a sea kayaker, so the boat’s as long as my house, full of disorganized gear that weighs more than my car, at a put-in that’s half a mile away through loose sand. When I’m on my own, I hate it even [...]
Trans-Amazon Expedition
04.07.2007
The Wilderness Classroom Organization launched its tenth online expedition, the Trans-Amazon Expedition, on April 2nd, 2007. Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Over the course of three school years, Dave Freeman and Eric Frost will lead the Wilderness Classroom’s expedition team across South America by bike and canoe. The expedition began April 2 [...]
Wenatchee Whitewater Rodeo
04.07.2007
Mark your calenders so you don’t miss the Pacific Northwest’s paddling event of the year. June 8-10 marks the third annual Wenatchee River Festival and 2007 is shaping up to outshine the previous two years. Washington’s Cascade Mountains got a royal dumping of snow this winter and the runoff is predicted to be substantial and [...]
Wenatchee Whitewater Rodeo
04.07.2007
Mark your calenders so you don’t miss the Pacific Northwest’s paddling event of the year. June 8-10 marks the third annual Wenatchee River Festival and 2007 is shaping up to outshine the previous two years. Washington’s Cascade Mountains got a royal dumping of snow this winter and the runoff is predicted to be substantial and [...]
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