DBP MAGAZINE ONLINEEditor-in-Chief "Chicago" Mike Toughill is co-founder of Dirt Bag Paddlers and former Peshtigo River Manager at Kosir's Rapid Rafts in Wisconsin. He's been Wallacing since 2003.
Gracing our February cover with three other amazing ladies is DBP Admin Caitlin Richard of Maine, representing the riverboarding discipline of whitewater runners. She’s a stone cold Class V bomber who will truly make you say “WOW!” I got the chance to ask her a few questions while watching her beloved New England Patriots pull […]
In November 2016, I informed my family and friends that I would be travelling to Mexico the following month, alone, to SUP whitewater in unknown rivers, unable to speak a single word of Spanish … other than ‘hola.’ That’s insane, I heard. Too dangerous, people told me. But the DC kayakers were supportive and simply […]
I’ve been paddleboarding around 18 months but at the end of 2016 I decided to take it up properly and invest in my own boards and paddle. I already had all the other equipment needed being a kayaker. Whitewater SUP was my main attraction being mainly a whitewater kayaker and in December I SUPed the […]
EDITOR’S DESK: January is a special month, because it sets the tone for a new year. We are very proud of the tone Dirt Bag Paddlers set for 2017 with the collection of #DBFamily stories we delivered to you throughout the month. We hope we’ve inspired you to get out there with your loved ones […]
EDITOR’S DESK: We finish up our regular articles on #DBFamily with a light hearted story from DBP Admin Cornelia Horch, translated from the original German. We decided to use both tongues to highlight that Dirt Bag Paddlers is a worldwide community and we reject an English-only philosophy that is so powerfully prevalent here in America […]
EDITOR’S DESK: The concept of #DBFamily is full of variety, but it’s not complex. For those who share a love of whitewater and live the #OneLoveOneRiver Philosophy, the norms of our community come almost second nature to us, but for the 99% of humanity looking in from the outside… Well, they have a harder time […]
Now for a story filled with love: for the river, for a father, and for four young siblings who have experienced some very hard and some very joyous times in life- the River Warrior Family of Oregon. DBP Admin Paul Eckel and his kids Uno (Cayden), BG (Ashten), Sweet Petunia (Lexie), and Little Beast (Tristan) […]
When I first started kayaking, I was 22 years old and in college. I wasn’t thinking anything about having a wife and kids. However, a bunch of years down the road, during the course of my biggest paddling adventure I met the woman who would become my wife. After a few years of courtship and […]
ONE LOVE, ONE FAMILY ~ On The River Through The Eyes of a Father & Son. by Joe & Jake Mayer When I first started kayaking, I was 22 years old and in college. I wasn’t thinking anything about having a wife and kids. However, a bunch of years down the road, during […]
EDITOR’S DESK: The bond between siblings, between brothers… Is there any relationship stronger in our human experience? It’s hard to imagine so. As we continue January’s #DBFamily issue, we thought we’d examine that relationship through the lens of theultimate two-man adventure sport: R2 or rafting with only two paddlers. And what more intense way can […]