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CHIAPAS: Land of Rebels
06.18.2013
Inside the making of Teva and River Roots’ new short film, ‘Beyond the Drop,’ documenting an international team’s March descent of the Five Falls of Mexico’s Rio Tulijá, documented in the June 2013 issue of Canoe & Kayak.
Inside Line: Destination Ecuador
06.13.2013
This installment of The Inside Line brings the destination story from our current, June 2013 issue to life, paddling the upper Amazon’s endless whitewater options in Ecuador with Small World Adventures.
NORTH FORK preview
06.06.2013
The North Fork Championship returns to Idaho this weekend, where an invited list of some of the world’s top paddlers (plus a top group of qualifiers) race a gated course through the crux of the roadside Class V classic. Chris Gragtmans lays out his first impressions of the course and field of competitors.
The Inside Line: Jerome Truran
06.04.2013
A deeper look inside the ‘Unfiltered’ profile from our current, June issue of Canoe & Kayak available on newsstands now, of South African Jerome Truran, one of the lead kayakers on the historic 1985 first expedition to paddle the Amazon from source to sea.
POWELL to POWELL
05.24.2013
The fifth and final installment of the Powell to Powell film series follows the group of college friends finish its Colorado River journey from the source by crossing Lake Powell in a solar-powered raft. The series points to the need for water-use awareness and progressive solutions, as the population of the Southwest will continue to grow, “the river will not.”
Paddle of the Sexes
05.23.2013
C&K Contributing Editor Kate Stepan delves into the recent heated debate on gender roles in whitewater kayaking sparked by the 2012 release of BDP Productions’ ‘Pleasure Strokes’ and the paddling community’s ensuing response.
Rescue for River Runners
05.15.2013
In Episode Eleven of the R3: Rescue for River Runners video lesson series debuting on CanoeKayak.com, Jim Coffey explores risk assessment further in order to create more efficient and timely rescues, highlighting a few specific techniques to create efficiencies in time-sensitive foot-entrapment scenarios.
POWELL to POWELL
05.14.2013
This fourth episode in the five-part Powell to Powell series explores the vast wilderness stretches of the Colorado River above Lake Powell and the small steps that users can take to demand protection for such a high-value resource.
POWELL to POWELL
05.07.2013
This third episode in the five-part Powell to Powell series debuting on CanoeKayak.com explores the booming natural-gas fracking industry and the continued stress of agriculture.
The Inside Line: Bill Nedderman
05.05.2013
In this installment of The Inside Line, we look deeper into the profile on Bill Nedderman from the “Covert Operators” feature package headlining C&K’s current May issue, available on newsstands now. The stealthy Iowa paddler waxes about life off the grid and on his low-profile, 6,000-mile route around the eastern United States in his homemade canoe.
POWELL to POWELL
04.30.2013
“Profit and Play” is the first installment in the five-part Powell to Powell film series debuting on CanoeKayak.com, which documents a 2012 expedition starting from the source of the Colorado River and punctuated by a series of interviews with water experts that contextualize the state of a vital river basin at risk.
Women of the Surf
04.29.2013
No less impressive were the women surfers, who came from along the western United States and Canada to compete. They surfed for two claims: to be the west coast kayak surf champion of the Pacific Paddle Surf Series and to represent the U.S. West in the Australian world championships in July of this year.
POWELL to POWELL
04.23.2013
“Complicating the Divide” is the first installment in the five-part Powell to Powell film series debuting on CanoeKayak.com, which documents a 2012 expedition starting from the source of the Colorado River and punctuated by a series of interviews with water experts that contextualize the state of a vital river basin at risk.
PREVIEW: Powell to Powell
04.22.2013
A sneak peek of “Powell to Powell,” a five-part film series debuting on CanoeKayak.com, which documents a 2012 expedition starting from the source of the Colorado River and punctuated by a series of interviews regarding the ecological issues and threats facing the basin.
‘PUSH’ BACK
04.19.2013
We recently caught up with Marty Perry of the Vancouver-based Hurricane Riders sea kayak crew to find out more about its new four-part series titled, The push. Our questions for Marty: What was the impetus for the series, where did you shoot it, and what exactly is involved in a new ‘recruit’ earning their THR stripes?
Rescue for River Runners
04.15.2013
In Episode Ten of the R3: Rescue for River Runners video lesson series debuting on CanoeKayak.com, Jim Coffey delves further into the topic of foot entrapment by going through the first, basic, and vital assessments any rescuer should consider and practice.
Five Weeks, One Film, One Crazy Raft
04.12.2013
Last May, four Fort Lewis College students began a prolonged 35-day connection with the local river that they too often took for granted. That’s no longer the case, after the students started an ambitious multi-sport river expedition at the absolute headwaters of the Animas River, which flows right through their college town of Durango, Colo. A month and half later, they crossed Lake Powell in a raft motorized with solar panels—something never before accomplished.
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