Eric Jackson going deep in Mexico Photo: Darin McQuoid. View Website
Photo by John Boone, a contestant in The Range Life's Photo Hold 'em Contstest. View Website
Circumnavigating Ireland. Photo by Inna Hoichman. View Website
Green Light on the Paddling Season: Leland Davis stomps Gorilla Falls on North Carolina's Green River. Photo by Andria Baldovin View Website
Best Competition of the Winter? Hands down, The Range Life's Photo Hold Em' Contest. Here, Hood River's Nate Herbeck becomes a subject in the final round. View Website
Leland Davis captures the warmth at Cascada de Tamul, Mexico. View Website
Wish You Were Here? Wave Sport's Jutta Kaiser rules Argentina. View Website
British Columbia's Big Silver Creek. To see a slide show of this new classic at The Range Life, click below. View Website
Sandal Splinters--Logjam on the Chevelon, Arizona. Photo by Tyler Williams (www.funhogpress.com)
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Hardly Flat: Aire paddler Darwon Stoneman rows through the tough stuff on the Upper Middle Fork Flathead River, Montana. Photo by Clint Walker
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Mikkel St. Jean and Chris Ryman hucking their meat. Photo by Andrea Miller-Ryman View Website
Fun with a Forklift in Routt County, Colo. Photo by Clay Rogers. View Website
Olympic Dreamin': Austin Crane (stern) and Scott McCleskey en route to a first-place C-2 showing at the Charlotte Slalom Team Trials last weekend. Photo by Issac Schmidt View Website
Loving the Los Pinos, Colorado.Photo by Scot Baker View Website
Going Deep: Mike Moser hits up Deep Creek, a late season run flowing into the Snake River near Hagerman, Idaho. Photo by Mike Copeland View Website
Will Parini hucks a Jefe on Middlebury Falls, Vermont Photo by Oliver Parini View Website
The Range Life's Bryan Smith on British Columbia's Tatlow Creek. Photo by Effigy View Website
California, knows how to party: Hospital Rock section of the Kaweah Photo by Charlie Brown View Website
Salmon Steak: Chris Imel surfing Trap Creek Rapid on the Main Salmon near Riggins, Idaho Photo by Joe Carberry View Website
Kayak or Mini-Yacht? Regardless, James Castrission and Justin Jones are attempting to cross the Tasman Sea and paddle into the record books. View Website
Fall paddling in Durango, Colo. Click below to learn more. Photo by Evan Ross View Website
Tis' the season to head south. Livin' large in Chile View Website
Tasman paddlers Justin Jones and James Castrission have entered the most dangerous part of their journey off New Zealand's rugged west coast. View Website
Paddlers navigate the Salmon River Gorge, Oregon. Photo by Lana Young View Website
South Island Circle: Justine Curgenven and Barry Shaw are circumnavigating New Zealand's South Island. They aren't alone. View Website
Wizard of "OZ": Read more about Australian Phenom Anthony Yap by clicking below. Photo Tanya Shuman View Website
Click below to check out the River Gypsies photo contest with shots like this of Jakob Kafer on BC's Callaghan Creek. Photo Dave Dickson View Website
Joe Stumpfel, former Freestyle Kayak Team member, launching way out on Washington's Spirit Falls.
Photo by Keel Brightman. View Website
Put Up Yer Dukes: Jana Dukatova of Slovakia, en route to winning this week's women’s K1 event by more than 4 seconds. (Photo courtesy ICF)
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Devon Pearse rides the line at Steamers during the Santa Cruz Surf Kayak Festival where England's Chris Harvey won the World Cup division. View Website
MMM... Yeah, so about that. Photo: LJ Groth Location: Lower Lewis Falls, WA Paddler: Austin Rathman Other: Evan Garcia View Website
Feeling like a surf? Click below for more information about raft-assisted kayak surf safaris on Idaho's Middle Fork Salmon. View Website
Melt Down: Winter has finally released it's grip out West. Chris Larsen, riding the melt, Escalante Falls, Colorado. Photo by Evan Ross View Website
A late winter in the West means the PL staff is getting desperate. Here's Joe Carberry hoping the melt starts soon. Photo by Corey Kopischke View Website
Big South Dreamin'. The water is still frozen in the Rockies. Photo by Russ Blackhurst View Website
Read about Kelsey Thompson's Leap of Faith in Fernie, B.C. by clicking below. Photo by Scott Feindel View Website
A team at the European Rafting Championships in Austria gets cozy to avoid a gate touch. For full results, click below. View Website
Corey Volt with his game face on during the third annual Paddling Life Pro Invitational Fish Creek Race. Volt finished third in the freestyle event. Photo Larry Pierce View Website
Jon Bowermaster nearing the end of his Oceans Eight project in Antarctica. For info on his project (and to order DVDs) visit www.jowbowermaster.com View Website
Adam Bigsby competes in the LVM Giant Slalom on North Carolina's Green River Narrows last weekend. For results, click below. Photo by Rob Tompkins View Website
Madams with Medals: Gold-Elena Kaliska SVK; Silver-Jacqueline Lawrence AUS; and Bronze-Violetta Oblinger Peters AUT.
(Photo courtesy IOC)
Flatwater Facial: Australia's Ken Wallace after winning the Men's K-1 1000-meter semi-finals in Beijing.
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Penetrating the Cruz del Condor in Peru's upper Colca Canyon, the deepest gorge in the world, in a PL-attended expedition that ended Aug. 31.
MMM... Yeah, so about that. Photo: LJ Groth Location: Lower Lewis Falls, WA Paddler: Austin Rathman Other: Evan Garcia View Website
Matt Radis in Santa Cruz, CA showing surfers that kayakers don't need tow-ins. View Website
Plunging Probe: In an Incan gold-chasing, mummy-finding first descent that turned into a Polish Race to the Bottom of the Earth, PL's Eugene Buchanan gets lowered into the depths of an unexplored section of the world's deepest canyon in Peru. View Website
The Spanish C-1 Team en route to its first podium finish at the ICF World Slalon Championships, which just wrapped up Sept. 13, 2009.
Photo courtesy: ICF/Balint Vekassy
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Celebrating a loss Gore-fest style. (Photo courtesy rapidimagephoto.)
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Thun Fun: Wave Sport's Kelsey Thompson going big at the World Freestyle Kayak Championships in Thun, Switzerland. View Website
Good morning, class! Welcome to...China? World Class Kayak Academy's winter semester just kicked off in the Western China province of Yunnan. For two months, they'll be paddling on the 3 parallel rivers, completing high school classes and learning how to use eat rice with chopsticks. View Website
Gearing up for the Green Race: Kelsey Thompson stomping a boof on the infamous Gorilla. The Race is scheduled for November 1. Learn more about the race below. View Website
The Spanish C-1 Team en route to its first podium finish at the ICF World Slalon Championships, which just wrapped up Sept. 13, 2009.
Photo courtesy: ICF/Balint Vekassy
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Going big at the Adidas Sickline World Extreme Kayak Championships.
Photo courtesy: Adidas/Sickline
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Howard McKim tangling with a 300 pound marlin in the Sea of Cortez. This fish ended up pulling him 11 miles out to sea. Learn more about the fight below. View Website
Nick Troutman looking deep on Skookumchuck.
Photo by Steven Wright View Website
EP in the depths of the Himalayas. China was one of three of their expeditions in 2007/2008. Check out the story below. Photo by: Adam Mills Elliott View Website
On the set of Reel Water Productions
latest film, Eastern Horizons. Photo by Bryan Smith, taken in Quebec's Magdalene Islands View Website
Seconds away from Cerveza and Salsa: Paddling Mexico's Actopan (Photo courtesy Paul Villecourt)
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The black dot below the bridge is a kayaker, in a play-boat, dropping a 300-foot dam in the UK. Does this look really fun to anybody else? Photo by: James Davies View Website
On the set of Reel Water Productions
latest film Eastern Horizons. Photo by Bryan Smith, taken in Quebec' Magdalene Islands View Website
Scott Feindel grabbing the first
descent of a 50-footer in
Papua New Guinea. Photo by: Matt Feilds-Johnson View Website
Joe Stumpfel, former Freestyle Kayak Team member, launching way out on Washington's Spirit Falls.
Photo by Keel Brightman. View Website
What season is it, again?
While some are trying to hit North Carolina's Green, others are trying for golfing's version. Tiger, eat your heart out. Photo courtesy Corey Kopischke. View Website
Coronas and waterfalls...winter boating in Mexico with Anna Levesque's Girls at Play. Photo courtesy Paul Villecourt. View Website
Coronas and waterfalls...winter boating in Mexico with Anna Levesque's Girls at Play. Photo courtesy Paul Villecourt. View Website
Two great reasons to stand-up paddle. Photo courtesy Corran Addison/Imagine Surfboards. View Website
Christie Glissmeyer plunging 82-feet
to the new women's world waterfall record.
Photo by Erik Boomer
Okay, Christie, you had your turn with your waterfall record. In honor of the SUP National River Champs, back to another shot from Corran Addison's wave-making Imagine Surfboards testing grounds in Canada (models not included). View Website
Think 75 cfs can't have some push? Tell that to New Zealand winner Mike Dawson (above) and other competitors at this year's Bud Lite Lime Homestake Creek Race at the Teva Mountain Games (and to Ken Houeve, who dislocated his shoulder). View Website
Who needs a playboat? Certainly not three-time world cup slalom champion Scott Shipley, who ripped up the Salida playhole, including cartwheels and all, in his slalom boat at this year's 61st anniversary of the FIBArk festival. (Photo courtesy Clay Rogers)
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Racing 460 miles down the Yukon in the Yukon River Quest, which ended in late June. (Photo courtesy Yukon River Quest)
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Gorilla-sized Cajones: Derek DelBuono firing the monkey at this year's Green River race.Photo by Jessica Volt
Photo courtesy: Adidas/Sickline
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Gorilla-sized Cajones: Derek DelBuono firing the monkey at this year's Green River race.Photo by Jessica Volt View Website
Save the Yough! A local advocate soaring over OhioPyle Falls.Photo courtesy Youghiogheny Defense Fund View Website
Gratuitous SUP Shot. (Hey, it's a trend...we have to cover it).Photo courtesy Corran Addison/Imagine View Website
Gratuitous SUP Shot. (Hey, it's a trend...we have to cover it).Photo courtesy Corran Addison/Imagine Surfboards View Website
Bonito Back Breaker: Rush Sturges slighlty offline on the Chilean waterfall that fractured his vertebrae.Photo courtesy Rush Sturges/Dream Result View Website
Bonito Back Breaker: Rush Sturges slightly offline on the Chilean waterfall that fractured his vertebrae.Photo courtesy Rush Sturges/Dream Result View Website
Masked Avenger: Nick Troutman giving a scary ride on Skook.Photo courtesy Jackson Kayak View Website
Masked Avenger: Nick Troutman giving a scary ride on Skook.Photo courtesy Jackson Kayak View Website
Surf's Up: A Scene from this year's Santa Cruz Surf Kayak Festival.Photo courtesy Dominick Lemarie View Website
Robe Warriors: Ken Olivier and Sam the Kiwi charging the Robe Race at a swim-inducing 5.8 on the gauge.Photo courtesy Ethan Smith View Website
Robe Warriors: Ken Olivier and Sam the Kiwi charging the Robe Race at a swim-inducing 5.8 on the gauge.Photo courtesy Ethan Smith View Website
Houston, we have a problem: Tao Berman winning his first-ever ramp competition, at the Red Bull Canal Crashers Big Air Contest during Richmond, Va.'s Dominion Riverrock Festival. "I had never gone off a ramp like this before," he says. "My initial goal was to not embarrass myself."Photo courtesy Dominion Riverrock Festival View Website
All In a Day's Work: Another hard day at the office for stand-up paddleboard maker Corran Addison of Imagine Surfboards.Photo courtesy Imagine Surfboards View Website
Inviting Watwer: Jeremy Laucks soaring off a drop in the Paddling Life Invitational, brought to you by Steamboat in the Summertime, Kokatat, NRS, MTI, Thule, New Belgium and more.Photo courtesy Imagine Surfboards
Inviting Water: Jeremy Laucks soaring off a drop in the Paddling Life Invitational, brought to you by Steamboat in the Summertime, Kokatat, NRS, MTI, Thule, New Belgium and more.Photo courtesy Imagine Surfboards View Website
Inviting Water: Jeremy Laucks soaring off a drop in the Paddling Life Invitational, brought to you by Steamboat in the Summertime, Kokatat, NRS, MTI, Thule, New Belgium and more.Photo courtesy Corey Kopischke View Website
Taking It All In: A view from high above
the 2010 Teva Mountain GamesPhoto courtesy Darin McQuoid View Website
Hospital Air: Paddling Life's Eugene Buchanan hucks a back flip while guiding a five-day Rocky Mountain Youth Corp trip
down Yampa CanyonPhoto courtesy Kent Vertrees
Winners of the "Hooligans Race"
at the 2010 FIBARK games in Salida
Tao Berman hucks himself
off Lewis Falls. photo courtesy
Jock Bradley View Website
Tao Berman hucks himself
off Lewis Falls.
photo courtesy Jock Bradley View Website
Tao Berman hucks himself
off Lewis Falls in Washington state.
photo courtesy Jock Bradley View Website
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