whitewater kayak
Bashkaus Expedition Signs Book of Legends
04.10.2011
One of this video’s opening narrations says it all: “Day one, we found a dead body… It’s the second one we’ve found.” That sums up the intensity of Siberia’s Lower Bashkaus Gorge high in the Altai Mountains just north of Mongoia, tackled last summer by Sickline Adidas Team members…
March Madness in NorCal
04.08.2011
Oh spring, glorious spring! On April 1 the California Department of Water Resources reported that the Shasta River Basin was showing 199 percent of its average snowpack. At the end of March, Northstar-at-Tahoe reported 42 feet of snow—the ski resort’s snowiest winter in 25 years. Most whitewater paddlers are frothing over the length and potential of this fresh season with the amount of precipitation feeling borderline biblical.
Landslide Poses New Access Challenges for Washington’s Icicle Canyon
04.07.2011
A landslide last week hit Icicle Creek Road, near Leavenworth, Wash., closing the road at the site of the slide and barring boater access to the upper section of Icicle Canyon, the deepest canyon in Washington state and popular Northwest Class IV/V whitewater kayaking run.
Dooley Tombras’ Open Boat Horizons
04.01.2011
Die-hard single-blade Tennessean believes the future of open canoeing is bright
Bolivia’s Rio Altamachi by Makeshift Raft
03.30.2011
In Autumn 2009, Natasza Szalajska and I descended Bolivia’s Rio Tuichi on a self-made raft. We had gathered lots of information about the river from the Internet, like how it makes its way right through the middle of the Madidi National Park; how the canyon is unusually beautiful…
The Santa Cruz Stoke
03.25.2011
The weather may have dropped a bomb on the 25th anniversary of the Santa Cruz Paddle Fest but longtime competitor Vincent Shay says it couldn’t spoil the festivities for the surf kayakers and standup paddlers who came to the infamous break at Steamer’s Lane last weekend to paddle and party.
Ageless Wonder: Harry Cox
03.21.2011
Going as strong as he is puts Harry Cox, age 61, in pretty select company. But, in fact, his accomplishments and zeal for life elevates him—a sort of Dean of Atlantic Canadian Kayaking—to a class all his own.
Slippery When Wet, No. 3: Drew Duval
03.15.2011
The latest webisode trailer for Shasta Boyz Productions’ forthcoming film
Remembering Ellen DeBondt
03.11.2011
Washington resident remembered for brilliant smile and passion for paddling
Gatherings: La Push Pummel
03.09.2011
Winter wave seekers gather on Washington coast for annual weekend surf session
Video: Historic Boats in the Grand Canyon
03.07.2011
Documenting a unique Grand Canyon run in historic wooden boats
Unplugged: Washington’s Canyon Creek
03.07.2011
Enormous logjam created two years ago by flooding flushes out in more floods
First Descent of Pennsylvania’s ‘Powder Hole’
03.05.2011
Jared Seiler runs infamous falls of Wapwallopen Creek near Nescopeck, PA
Photo Book: 2011 Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon
02.23.2011
Images from South Africa’s legendary three-day kayak marathon
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