Renaissance Man Corran Addison has seemed to touch all aspects of our sport. A canoeist and kayaker, a surfer and surfboard and kayak designer, he has been at the foremost of paddling innovation. An Olympian in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Addison competed for his home country South Africa in a number of world […]
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WELCOME TO THE WOLF PACK ~ by Taz Riggs
Some people, just by force of their basic nature, have a tendency to react to some of the ideals set forth by this group with a call for nihilism and anarchy. River guides are actually one of the most diverse groups of people you could find among any one profession. Because for them to live […]
In medieval folklore a mythical island known as ‘Ultima-Thule’ was foretold in the north. It was ‘a land beyond the borders of the known world’ guarded by an element neither sea, nor land nor sky: Icebergs. Since first learning of Lago Geike in my first guiding season on the Rio Serrano it had become a […]
“Whatever you do, Lou, don’t miss that eddy!” It was 1963; Lou and I were 15-year-old river-guide trainees on the South Fork American; and these were the words of our mentor and boss Bryce Whitmore, one of California’s first two rafting outfitters. The rapid before us–Devil’s John (now called Satan’s Cesspool and rated class III […]
Happy New Year, Dirtbags! 2016 is NOW, and with it comes our latest January cover photo here at DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE. I got to thinking about what image would portray January properly… Icy, snowy shots of whitewater extremists started springing to mind. Then it hit me: Wait a minute! Even though it’s full on winter […]
As we approach the takeout to the amazing trip that was the year 2015, let’s take a look back at the highs and lows of the journey. Dirt Bag Paddlers put together a top rank river festival schedule across the globe this year. We covered Gore Fest, Canoecopia, Ganga Kayak Festival, Russell Fork Rendezvous, Dagali […]
One of the pleasures in growing older in a sport is watching the development of up and comers, those young guns who take up the mantels of their predecessors and charge forward. Andrew Morrisey first came to our attention at Dirt Bag Paddlers a few years back, when he messaged us with a sick edit […]
As DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE Associate Editor and Chief Historian (we throw titles to each other faster than ropes; we’re Dirtbags of course) I want to encourage folks out there to write their own history. If the idea seems ‘nerdy’ or obsessive compulsive let me put you at ease. The first and perhaps only person […]
December 19th 2015 Another day starts on the Peshtigo. We wake late and as always I’m behind schedule for our 1pm put in time. I arrive at the house ready to rip, we partake then suit up. Todd and I dress slightly faster than Aaron, J-man, and Jamey and we head up to the put […]
Some of us Dirtbags are paddlers to our core, living, breathing and subsisting on little more than whitewater… Then there are those few boaters out there who shine the light, renaissance men who do as much away from the river as on it to further the sport and enrich our community and the world beyond. […]