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Ask Eddy, the beloved boating guru in Canoe & Kayak’s print magazine, has come to life on the website. This story featured in the June 2007 issue and was written by Frederick Reimers and Sam Moulton.
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Olympic Flatwater Sprint Preview
08.09.2012
Tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 10, the 200-meter flatwater sprint is making its debut at the Olympic Games. It will also be the last chance for the U.S. Canoe/Kayak Team to take home a medal from the London 2012 Games.
10 years of PaddlePower
08.09.2012
CanoeKayak.com recently asked PaddlePower organizer Kristen Senz about the 10th annual, two-day event on Aug. 18-19, which raises funds for a crisis hotline that serves people with depression, including those close to committing suicide.
Thames Pub Crawl: High-Water Hangover
08.08.2012
Dispatch No. 3 from a 150-mile bar hopping paddle down The Thames River
Down The Dnieper: Ukrainka
08.08.2012
Jeffrey and Giulio dock at Ukrainka on Ukraine’s Dnieper River and make some new friends.
Final Countdown: Amazon solo
08.08.2012
Inside the final preparations for West Hansen’s bold 4,225-mile expedition to solo the entire length of the Amazon River.
Thames Pub Crawl: Lock and Dammed
08.07.2012
Dispatch No. 2 from a 150-mile bar hopping paddle down The Thames River
Running It Blind
08.07.2012
The only blind man to climb the world’s Seven Summits, Erik Weihenmayer now plans on kayaking the Grand Canyon in fall 2013.
Thames Pub Crawl: London Calling
08.06.2012
Dispatch No. 1 from a 150-mile bar hopping paddle down The Thames River
Brit Blitz
08.03.2012
With a style both fluid and aggressive, Tony Estanguet of France won his third Olympic Gold in the C-1 class on Tuesday, pulling ahead of his longtime rival Michal Martikan, and bringing the most celebrated duel in slalom history to a close.
2012 Canoe & Kayak Awards
08.03.2012
Final results from the inaugural Canoe & Kayak Awards, presented by Zeal Optics, celebrating 2012′s best paddlers, movies, film reels, expeditions, and philanthropic effort.
Testing Boundaries
08.01.2012
The Usumacinta has a reputation as one of the best river trips in the world, and also one of the most dangerous. It forms the border between Mexico and Guatemala through the heart of the Mayan region, a vast, densely jungled wilderness where traditional authorities hold little sway…because of these amazing features, the Usu became one of the world’s preeminent raft trips in the 1970s, and a prime winter playground for off-season Grand Canyon guides.
Testing Boundaries
08.01.2012
It took me two days to hitchhike from Haines, Alaska, to the Yukon highway bridge where Walt Blackadar started his fabled 1971 first descent of Turnback Canyon. I launched in a drizzle feeling quite puny, just as Walt probably did, which I guess was the point. I was alone, as he had been, with 10 days and 230 miles of the Alsek River ahead of me. Running Turnback was never part of my plan, though.
Testing Boundaries
08.01.2012
I always thought I needed to do something ‘legitimate’ for a living. Then when I graduated I got job offers in geology, and thought, ‘What do I need money for so badly that I’m ready to sacrifice my life for it?’
Gallery—Trey Cambern
08.01.2012
The inspiration to movie Deliverance which introduced a generation of adventure-seekers to the possibilities of river-running.
Gallery—Mike Leeds
08.01.2012
Washington kayaker Darren Albright boofs Rodeo Hole in Jacob’s Ladder, the signature rapid of Idaho’s North Fork Payette, during the 2012 North Fork Championship.
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