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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 […]
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Since my first day ever paddling back in 2003 I’ve boated with awesome ladies. On that first trip, I went rafting with Whitewater Adventurers on the Lower Yough in Ohiopyle, PA. Two of the guides were badass females, September and Zorb, and from the start I got to know that it […]
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 […]
Today sees the start of a new recurrent feature for DBP Magazine online! Paddling Banter is an awesome webcomic from a paddlers perspective. We are excited to be featuring them in a new feature at the end of each month! Paddling Banter comics are created by the awesome Connall Brown, kayaker and general outdoors nut! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Travis, Jennifer, and the kids Travis Sr. began canoeing in the early 70’s when this sport and lifestyle was still in its infancy. In 1981 I was old enough to begin my boat riding days. I enjoyed the view from the bow of my father’s Blue Hole OCA, watching my mother in her fiberglass Slipper […]