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It’s my favorite time of year in the Pacific Northwest. The leaves of autumn have fallen, and the mosses and ferns that lay dormant on tree-trunks throughout summer spring to life as a new season of epiphytic foliage joins the conifers for winter. They pitch the Coast Range and lowlands of the Western Cascades of […]
Some days we are the Bow, some days we are the Arrow. United States military veterans are now arriving at the Oceti Sakowin Camp outside Standing Rock to act as a human shield to protect the Native Americans and protesters who have gathered to impede further progress of the DAPL oil pipeline under construction across […]
There is only one downriver whitewater race in the world I will ever compete in. The Animal Race on the Class V Upper Gauley River in West Virginia. Why? It is summed up succinctly on their group page on Facebook: “The Gauley River…. just the mention of it causes a whitewater paddler to go into […]
Have you ever had one of those spur of the moment opportunities that you just can’t pass up? I mean something that you have no idea what is going to happen, but dang it you’re rock solid, dead set, no matter what, going to do it? That’s the way this amazing weekend came about for […]
Photos & reports by Steve Moore, Aaron Kendall, Armando Castro, and Chris Macdonald EDITOR’S DESK: Magic, amazing, coolest, best, friends, party, Champions Killer. These words appear over and over when you ask about Sickline. Hosted by Adidas last month in Oetz, Austria, this event is the premier kayaking race in Europe, and perhaps the world, […]
EDITOR’S DESK- We are back with another installment of Highlight Paddling Media with an inside look of one of our favorite photo/video collectives, Black Owl Media (BOM)! These guys have been sending stouts with many of our Admin team over the last few months. The roots of our name “Dirt Bag Paddlers” is from the […]
We once again welcome a guest post from Nick Boreham of River Stench, this time with a very funny recounting of a rather dry trip to the Scottish Highlands. The Scottish mountains are old, older than the furthest reaches of comprehension. They do not expend their energies on the frivolities of spires and sharp peaks […]
EDITOR’S DESK: A party as huge as Gauley Fest, and a river as epic as the Upper Gauley (or is it a party as epic and river as huge…) cannot be summed up properly by only one voice. There is so much to see and do, and such high levels of fun being had that […]
The Nantahala Outdoor Center provides a Guest Appreciation Festival for the southeastern community each fall. This gathering is based mostly, but not solely, around whitewater events. The event is highly publicized and brings an astronomical amount of people to converge upon the sleepy little valley located due west of Bryson City, NC. to paddle the […]
Whilst on my travels this summer running IRF & Rescue 3 courses around the globe for raft guides and safety kayakers, I find myself running into the same problem when it comes to guides carrying the correct personal rescue equipment (PRE). “Nobody has ever told us how much to carry.” During this post I want […]