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Let’s GoPro Games
The whitewater part of the GoPro Games went off with a huge splash as major paddling names duked it out both in creek races and freestyle competitions and a new generation of female paddlers took the podium.
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Virtual Coach Episode IV: Packing a Sea Kayak
01.05.2011
In this episode of C&K’s Virtual Coach, Paul Kuthe details the art of packing a sea kayak.
Man, Mission, Gear: Marcus Demuth
01.05.2011
(This article was featured in the December 2010 issue of Canoe and Kayak Magazine) German rock ’n’ roll drummer Marcus Demuth moved to New York City for the music scene. During a smoke break six years ago, he saw kayakers paddling on the Hudson River. Soon he could think of little else. “I just felt like [...]
Virtual Coach Episode III: The Stern Rudder
01.04.2011
Here, the owners of Body, Boat, Blade on Washington’s Orca Island, take you through the intricacies of the stern pry and draw.
One Heck Of A Snodger
12.30.2010
Australian kayak fisherman lands unofficial world-record barramundi fish
Virtual Coach Episode II: The Low-Brace Turn
12.23.2010
Here, the owners of Body, Boat, Blade on Washington’s Orca Island, take you through the intricacies of the low-brace turn.
20 Days Around South Georgia Island
12.23.2010
Norwegians complete first self-supported expedition around Antarctica’s South Georgia Island
Revisiting the Hendri Coetzee Tragedy
12.21.2010
By Joe Carberry Published: December 21, 2010 During the first week of December, Canoe & Kayak reported that legendary South African expedition kayaker Hendri Coetzee disappeared on the Lakuga River, a tributary of the Congo in Africa, after being attacked by a crocodile. His body has still not been recovered. Coetzee and his paddling partners, [...]
Virtual Coach Episode I: That On-Edge Feeling
12.21.2010
Here, the owners of Body, Boat, Blade on Washington’s Orca Island, take you through the intricacies of edging your kayak as first seen in the July 2010 issue of Canoe and Kayak magazine.
5 Minutes: World Champion Valerie Bertrand
12.20.2010
Photo: Benjamin Hjort When we talked to Valerie Bertrand, the 31-year-old Quebec native’s bell had just been seriously rung in the Norwegian kiteskiing championships, after a fierce gust unexpectedly grabbed her kite and dragged her upside down across a few hundred yards of frozen, rocky tundra. Concussed, the uber-athlete was in recovery mode as she [...]
The New Marine Land
12.18.2010
By Conor Mihell Published: December 17, 2010 Forward thinking, decades ago, made all 366 miles of the Oregon coast public property, allowing for unfettered access to some of the best sea kayaking in North America. Now, Oregon is on the cusp of creating a network of marine reserves that would ensure the coast remains attractive [...]
Feds Order Removal Of White Salmon’s Condit Dam
12.16.2010
American Whitewater Staff Report Published: December 16, 2010 The prospect of removing Condit Dam on the White Salmon River moved closer to reality today in a significant ruling from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioning formally ordering the removal of the dam. This past October the State of Washington gave their final approval for the project [...]
Paddlesports In The News
12.16.2010
News from around the paddlesports world… Olympic Countdown People love counting down the days til Christmas, and while that’s all well and good—it ’tis the season—there’s another countdown underway across the pond. Of course you probably know this already, but there’s something like 589 days until the 2012 London Olympics commence. BBC London, for one, [...]
Roundup
12.15.2010
People love counting down the days til Christmas, and while that’s all well and good—it ’tis the season—there’s another countdown underway across the pond. Of course you probably know this already, but there’s something like 589 days until the 2012 London Olympics commence. BBC London, for one, is already counting down. Recently, the BBC visited [...]
Dam Troubling
12.14.2010
British Columbia’s Ashlu before and after (below) Years ago, Edward Abbey fathered a radical environmental movement with the fictional account of George Washington Hayduke, a man who sought to blow up the Colorado River’s massive Glen Canyon Dam. Abbey’s 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang grew out of his experience paddling amid the sandstone arches [...]
Book Review: Reading the River
12.11.2010
By Conor Mihell Published: December 10, 2010 Laurel Archer has made a living going where almost no canoes have gone before. She takes 17-foot trippers down the wild rivers of northern British Columbia like the Stikine and Tatshenshini—rivers typically reserved for creekboats and rafts. Archer cut her teeth paddling the big, historic fur-trade rivers of [...]
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