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NOBODY’S RIVER
This summer, four women will attempt to paddle Mongolia’s Amur River—one of the planet’s longest waterways—as a part of a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant-sponsored initiative to collect scientific data and raise awareness of the challenges facing “global rivers.”
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The KEEN and Canoekayak.com Portage Photo Contest!
07.14.2010
Sometimes the carry is the crux. That’s why KEEN and Canoe and Kayak magazine are teaming up for the first annual Portage Photo Contest. Did a log ruin your rapid? Does a sieve make that cataract really suck? Or maybe you just had to carry your canoe between lakes? Send us your best photos featuring [...]
Hall of Fame: The Class of 2010
07.13.2010
It was only a matter of time before Risa Shimoda, a staunch river advocate and one of America’s most vocal supporters of whitewater paddling, became an inductee of the hall of fame she helped create. Shimoda is the only American in the International Whitewater Hall of Fame’s (IWHOF) class of 2010; she is being recognized [...]
Callaghan Fest – For the Love of Wild Rivers
07.13.2010
Leave it to a couple of boaters known as the River Gypsies to dream up a whitewater festival on a waterway 2,900 miles from their home. Asheville, N.C.-based whitewater guidebook authors Leland and Andria Davis are helping to organize the Callaghan Creek Festival and Extreme Race on July 24 near Whistler, British Columbia. Leland Davis [...]
Choosing the Right Rain Gear
07.12.2010
From summer thunder storms to fall showers, it’s never too early to purchase the right rain gear for canoeing, sea or river kayaking. Here, Canada’s Kevin Callan tells us what to look for when shopping for rain gear and puts his own outerwear to the test in the shower, at the carwash and up against [...]
Yukon 1000: The Last Great Race
07.12.2010
By Conor Mihell Peter Coates uses unorthodox methods to market the grueling 1,000-mile paddling race he organizes on the Yukon River. Streaming in bold letters across the top of the website for the Yukon 1000 Canoe and Kayak Race is the question, “Do you really want to do this?” Last summer, 17 teams of paddlers [...]
Kayak Fishing Tales: How to BBQ Fish and Simple Salsa Videos
07.09.2010
Matt Moyer is a pro kayak angler and the executive chef at LaJolla Country Club. In this episode, Matt explains how to barbecue fish to perfection.
Pick-up Sticks – Greenland Style Kayaking
07.09.2010
By Conor Mihell While other facets of paddlesports have ebbed and flowed in popularity, Greenland-style paddling – that is, using the ancient techniques and narrow-bladed “stick” of the early Arctic sea kayakers – has experienced steady growth over the past decade. A case in point of traditional paddling’s popularity is the series of Greenland-specific kayak [...]
Packing A Canoe Pack
07.08.2010
Canadian Kevin Callan is the author of twelve books, including the best selling The Happy Camper, a popular series of paddling guides, and his latest Wilderness Pleasures: A Practical Guide to Camping Bliss. To fellow Canadians, he’s a national canoeing treasure. To Americans, his humor might seem a bit random. But one thing is certain: [...]
Canoe Cinema: This Is Canoeing and The Canoe Movie
07.07.2010
By Joe Carberry Photography by Janusz Wrobel Paddling filmmakers Will Lyons and Justine Curgenven couldn’t be more opposite. Lyons is a dirtbag C-1 boater from Asheville, N.C., who thrives on the Green River Narrows and is part of the Lunch Video Magazine staff. Curgenven is a sea kayaker from Wales whose achievements include impressive circumnavigations [...]
2010 Freestyle Kayak Team Trials Wrap-Up
07.06.2010
Last weekend, Missoula, Montana played host to the U.S. Team trials. Here, C&K video correspondent Tom Gerencer (who became an Internet hero with his Wet Dream Results trailer) recaps the trials including Dane Jackson’s three national titles.
Boat Book – Current Designs
07.06.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Current Designs. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. KESTREL 120 $1849, composite hybrid L: 12’6″; W: 26″; 32 lbs. $699 in rotomolded polyethylene, 48 lbs. Recreational: The Kestrel 120 is the [...]
Aquaphile: Crossing The Threshold
07.01.2010
By Alan Kesselheim Photography by Kyle George Crouching by the three-strand barbed wire, fencing pliers in hand, my neck hairs prickle in anticipation, waiting for the hard violence of a shotgun barrel at the base of my skull. Cutting fence in Montana is up there with stealing water on the roster of mortal sins. I [...]
Colossal Effort – The River Gypsies’ Guide To North America
06.30.2010
Two hundred and ninety three river sections, nine regions, four years of work and one big continent. The numeric facts behind the whitewater tome, The River Gypsies Guide to North America says it all. Andria and Leland Davis, aka the River Gypsies, have attempted an incredible feet with one guidebook for one enormous continent. “We [...]
Boat Book – Chesapeake Light Craft
06.28.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of Chesapeake Light Craft. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. Shearwater 14 Hybrid $1,049 for complete kit (wood/epoxy/composite) L: 14’6″; W: 23″; 39 lbs. The CLC Shearwater kayaks are intended for performance [...]
Boat Book – ClearWater Design
06.28.2010
Each week, we highlight companies in Canoe & Kayak’s 2010 Boat Book. Today, we look at the 2010 designs of ClearWater Design. Stay tuned next week for more from our Boat Book. ClearWater Design MUSKOKA $675, Rotomolded Polyethylene L: 11’8″; W: 26″; 46 lbs. The Muskoka is the smallest of our Day Touring Kayaks. This [...]
Twisted Sisters
06.25.2010
If you paddle in Hood River, Ore., chances are good you boat with a few fearless female kayakers. Kayakers like Christie Glissmeyer, who notched the women’s waterfall world record on 82-foot Metlako Falls last year and bartends at night to accommodate her paddling schedule. Or paddlers like Kate Wagner and Melissa DeCarlo, who regularly join [...]
Standup Before Standup – Jim Snyder, Fletcher Burton, Nigel Foster
06.25.2010
Lately it seems as if standup paddling is everywhere you look. The movie stars are doing it, your river buddy just bought one, and the crossover sport utilizing bulbous surfboards and elongated single-blade paddles is even showing up in your favorite paddling magazine. But in case you missed it, let us be the first to [...]
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