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Enter Photo Contest
04.09.2003
We are accepting submissions for the 2004 Canoe & Kayak Magazine Amateur Photo Contest. Deadline is Friday, Oct. 10, 2003. Entries should be sent to Photo Contest, PO Box 3146, Kirkland, WA 98083-3146. Send original slides or high-quality prints. Prints will not be returned. Please include your full name, address, phone number, and e-mail address [...]
Illinois Paddlers Seek Access
04.08.2003
Paddlers in Lake County, Illinois, are seeking a lake site where people can launch and paddle their own canoes and kayaks. While the Forest Preserve District has done a great job creating access points on the Des Plaines River, they have only two lakes where canoes and/or kayaks are allowed – and they must be [...]
What Mom Didn’t Tell You About the Bow
04.05.2003
I love paddling the bow of a tandem canoe! Whitewater, flatwater, racing-doesn’t matter. The most action can be in front. Since I’m a pretty big guy, it is difficult to find a partner to balance the trim when I’m in front. So I’m mostly stuck in the second seat of a canoe. Therefore, as a [...]
California Creekin’
04.04.2003
High-quality whitewater, blue skies, and smooth granite–California rivers were made for paddlers. It is home to some of the best rivers and creeks in the world. The Sierra Nevada is host to an endless amount of whitewater–classic river runs, steep tributaries, first descents, and multi-day self-support trips. If you are a whitewater paddler, California has [...]
Pennsylvania
03.31.2003
KITTATINNY CANOES Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328 800-Float-KC Website: www.kittatinny.com Award winning, the first and largest outfitter on the Delaware, with 62 years experience in providing quality service and equipment. Our bases are strategically located to insure the most diverse river trips, river front camping and paintball. Kittatinny offers, custom trips, group discounts, learn to canoe [...]
Sprint Worlds
03.25.2003
As many as 800 athletes from 65 participating countries will converge on Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia, in September, for the 2003 Sprint Canoe/Kayak World Championships. The championships, the first ever held in the United States, will be the biggest event to come to Lake Lanier since the 1996 Olympics. In addition to the participating [...]
Choosing the Right ASA
03.21.2003
Problem: You are still taking pictures with your faithful film camera and haven’t moved on to digital. Given the many different film types, what kind should you use? It really depends on your desired end result. If you want to give shows to your friends, then you should pick slide film. If you’re working on [...]
Boating in the Backcountry
03.21.2003
It is quarter to nine, dinner is cooking, and fantastic pink and purple castle-building clouds hide the sunset. Stopped by the wind about two and a half miles from the put-in on Lake Kontrashibuna, in Alaska’s four-million-acre Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, our group of four is camped on a small beach littered with [...]
What Mom Didn’t Say About The Bow
03.20.2003
I love paddling the bow of a tandem canoe! Whitewater, flatwater, racing-doesn’t matter. The most action can be in front. Since I’m a pretty big guy, it is difficult to find a partner to balance the trim when I’m in front. So I’m mostly stuck in the second seat of a canoe. Therefore, as a [...]
Crossing Quetico
03.15.2003
Canoeing through a landscape of interconnected lakes and rivers, wide-open sky, and forest primeval, modern-day voyageurs traverse Ontario’s venerable Quetico Provincial Park during the onset of autumn, when few other paddlers are there to witness its beauty. My little Kevlar canoe, patched with duct tape as a result of a long-ago wrap around an ill-placed [...]
Magellan
03.14.2003
The Magellan SporTrak Pro GPS from Thales Navigation packs a lot of features into a hand-held unit. It comes with a pre-loaded 9 mb North American database of roads, highways, waterways, marine navigational aids, parks, and airports, and you can upload more detailed topo maps and street maps. It has an impact-resistant waterproof plastic case [...]
Iceland Expedition
03.14.2003
Three intrepid kayakers, Chris Duff, Shawna Franklin, and Leon Sommé, are planning to circumnavigate Iceland this summer. They will depart from Syedisfjordur in June and attempt to paddle around the entire island nation in less than four months. Duff is a veteran of big solo trips on challenging waters, and a noted paddling author as [...]
Whitewater Play
03.14.2003
For women and other paddlers with smaller hands, Werner Paddles is offering a smaller-diameter shaft option on all its paddles. It’s shown here with the Double Diamond, which has a flashy new metallic back and the neutral carbon bent shaft. Double Diamond is $425. (800) 275-3311; Wernerpaddles.com.
Splashy Fun
03.14.2003
Kokatat‘s new Knappster splash jacket, inspired by Brandon and Dustin Knapp, is made of W. L. Gore’s Paclite waterproof-breathable fabric with a double-tunnel waist and a coated-Lycra neck closure. $175. (800) 225-9749; Kokatat.com.
Adventure Time
03.14.2003
The Yukon Yak by Alpacka Raft of Alaska is designed for back-country adventurers. It weighs an astonishing 3 pounds 12 ounces and fits easily in a backpack. It inflates to 68 inches long and 38 inches wide. It’s not a toy – seams are welded and the floor is made of 870-denier nylon ballistics cloth. [...]
Write On
03.14.2003
The Extreme Notebook by Rite in the Rain is waterproof, tearproof, and bloodproof. It’s made of synthetic DuraRite paper-and has reference pages for wind, water, snow, and climbing, including whitewater river ratings and river emergency signals. $7.95. Shown here with the All-Weather pen, $7.95. RiteintheRain.com ; (253) 922-5000.
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