whitewater kayak
Video: Bam, After the Falls
07.12.2012
C&K staffer Michael Gordon recently ran into Bam Margera of MTV’s popular television series “Jackass,” in Iceland of all places, and couldn’t help but ask him about his most recent stunt with pro kayaker Steve Fisher: Hucking himself off Oregon’s 88-foot Metlako Falls in the front seat of a Jackson Dynamic Duo.
Rescue for River Runners
07.09.2012
Canoe & Kayak has teamed up with open-boat badass Jim Coffey—founder of Quebec-based outfitter Esprit Whitewater Worldwide as well as R3: Rescue for River Runners—and Mike McKay from Five2Nine Productions for a series of whitewater rescue lesson videos debuting exclusively on CanoeKayak.com. Here in Episode Three, Coffey covers safe swimming principles.
Of Souls + Water: The Shapeshifter
06.27.2012
What’s cooler than watching Ben Marr shredding big waves in Quebec? Watching him do it with road flares strapped to the stern deck of his kayak at night.
North Fork Championship EXTRA
06.19.2012
In honor of the spectacle that was the first-ever, June 9 North Fork Championship, we present an encore of imagery, with photos from Reid Morth and a fresh edit from Forge Motion Picture
Think global, paddle local
06.19.2012
A photo gallery and report from the seventh annual White Salmon RiverFest and Symposium, enjoying kayak and raft races on a southern Washington gem while addressing hot-button issues around the recent Condit Dam removal.
Awesome Dawson
06.14.2012
Catching up with Mike Dawson, 25, coming off his recent win at the Teva Mountain Games and currently looking ahead to his first Olympics representing New Zealand, plus video of his epic slalom practice course back home in New Zealand.
That Was Sick
06.11.2012
By Joe Carberry A beautiful thing happened on the river this weekend. The world’s best kayakers met on one of Earth’s toughest whitewater runs to test themselves and push the limits of the sport. It was a pinnacle moment. And everybody knew it. Despite rain showers and inconsistent weather, hundreds of people lined the banks [...]
Gallery: The 2012 Little White Salmon Race
06.06.2012
The Little White Salmon Race held last Sunday, June 3, on Washington State’s notoriously awesome “Little White” was the first of six events in the Association of Whitewater Professionals’ Whitewater World Series.
Rio Copon update
06.05.2012
Film trailer and the trip report from the diplomatic return trip to the Rio Copon-Chixoy in Guatemala, where Mayan villagers detained an international expedition intending to paddle the remote jungle river this January.
The Start of a Series
06.05.2012
Isaac Levinson and Evan Garcia secured the win at this weekend’s Little White Salmon Race, the first stage of the Association of Whitewater Professionals’ 2012 Whitewater World Series. Read more about Levinson, from our June issue, see a 2012 Series preview video and calendar of stage events.
The 2012 Teva Mountain Games
06.04.2012
High times with low water at the 11th annual Teva Mountain Games
Rescue for River Runners
06.04.2012
Canoe & Kayak has teamed up with open-boat badass Jim Coffey—founder of Quebec-based outfitter Esprit Whitewater Worldwide as well as R3: Rescue for River Runners—and Mike McKay from Five2Nine Productions for a series of whitewater rescue lesson videos debuting exclusively on CanoeKayak.com. Here in Episode Two, Coffey covers group dynamics.
Gallery: Homestake Creek Race 2012
06.01.2012
Photos and results from the 2012 Homestake Creek Race.
7 Rivers 7 Continents: Missouri/Mississippi
06.01.2012
After paddling the length of the Amazon in 2008, Mark Kalch now plans to paddle the longest rivers of each continent, starting with the Missouri and Mississippi.
Get Ready: The Teva Mountain Games 2012
05.30.2012
The annual Teva Mountain Games is here again, and will kick off at 10:00 am tomorrow, Thursday, May 31, with the (in)famous Homestake Creek Race near Vail, Colo.
Fall and Rise: Jason’s Story
05.30.2012
On March 20, 2011, Jason Craig, the 17-year-old reigning freestyle kayak junior world champion, struck a rock at the base of an unnamed 30-footer on California’s Dry Creek, shattering his pelvis, smashing his spine and rupturing his dural sac. In the year that followed, Craig used kayaking as motivation and tool in learning to walk again. In this exclusive C&K film, Jason takes us inside his trying recovery.
Video: Rheinfall by Night
05.23.2012
Ever wonder what it’d be like to run Class V at night? Well, this video is probably as close you’re going to get to experiencing it without actually trying it (and we don’t recommend that).
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