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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, […]
Article by Michael Potter, Ythsta Prather Resovich, and Mike Toughill; photos by Michelle Terrell, Kurt Stegen, Jesse Rider, and Valerie Gordon. Photo – MTerrell We the People: the first words of our constitutional preamble; words of power, words of hope and words that guarantee that our voice will be heard. Over 150 peaceful protests are scheduled […]
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 […]
Adam Piggott is a man who’s been there, done that and now written the book on it. Twice. Last year saw the release of his first book Pushing Rubber Downhill, memoirs of over 15 years of experience commercial raft guiding and professional dirtbagging across the globe. From the Tully to the Nile, the Rockies to […]
Two years ago, some friends and I bought a boat. It began as a laugh on a river that wandered its way into a whimsy that solidified into a dream that, finally, exploded into a full-blown mission. Two years ago, sixty-three of my paddling buddies and I bought a brand-spanking new, shiny, green Blackfly Option […]
The Guide Olympics: What is it? Where is it? Why in the world have I never been a part of it? Some of the many questions you may have asked yourself about this long told of event. My answers? The Guide Olympics is an annual event that truly brings all together. An event that at […]
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What does young up and coming singer, songwriter and producer Dion D’Lucia from London have in common with ten year old Gage Forrest Laughton, a whitewater kayaker all the way down in New Zealand? Well looking at them you would probably say absolutely nothing, and geographically, these two really couldn’t get any further apart but […]
A few days after arriving at the Dirt Bag Paddlers HQ at Kosir’s Rapid Rafts on the Wisconsin/Michigan border, a weather front moved in bringing rain to the area. It didn’t take much to motivate and rally when the gauges showed a rising Falls River by L’Anse, Michigan – just a few hours drive away […]
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Once again we wrap up another month by bringing you a photo spread from our Admins around the #DBWorld! As another glorious summer fades into autumn we look back at all the fun we’ve had… Enjoy! September is for Gauley Season, and Linc Stallings is back again in West By God. […]