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Small World Adventures, which runs uber-sweet kayaking trips in Ecuador from its lodge on the banks of the Quijos River, is entering a new chapter with the sale of Small World and Cabanas Tres Rios lodge to Guy Erb, of Spokane, Wash. Erb plans on joining the SWA team for the 2012/2013 season and is leaving the structure of the staff, trips and logistics the same. Having been there to sample its first-class whitewater wares, PL checks in...

A few more kids might be getting wet than normal this paddling season, thanks to a new series of grants offered by Outdoor Nation. The group recently announced the 13 winners of its Paddle Nation Project, aimed at connecting young Americans with their waterways through recreational paddling...

Paddlers give up water? A tall order, perhaps, but that’s what Teva is asking paddlers to do on the eve of the 19th annual World Water Day...

Talk about throwing down when you need to. At this past weekend’s Pan American Championships in Foz do Iguassu, Brazil, with the U.S.’s sole C-1 and C-2 London Olympic spots on the line, U.S. paddlers Eric Hurdand and Jeff Larimer took first in the Men’s C-2 final, and Benn Fraker took home the Gold medal in Men’s C-1, ensuring the U.S. will have Olympians in both the C-1 and C-2 categories at the London 2012 Summer Games.

Who would think that a kayak fisher like Jim Sammons would wind up on NBC? Yet that's where Heliconia Press has landed the angler in a new TV series airing on the peacock channel...

Finalists have been announced for the 4th Annual MillerCoors River Network Grant Contest, which will award more than $55,000 in grants to local watershed protection groups.

Legally blind Canadian sea kayaker Doug Pace plans to paddle the length of the Mississippi River, unassisted, to raise money for blindness.

The international Reel Paddling Film Festival is on the road again, bringing some of the top paddling films in the world in nine categories to more than 100 cities.

While the Aussies won the team event (and coveted Club Waikiki Trophy) of the inaugural ISA World StandUp Paddleboard Championships in Lima, Peru, two U.S. SUP gals helped the U.S. secure a second-place finish. Emmy Merrill, 18, ripped her way to first place in the women’s SUP surfing final with a point score of 15.94, and Brandi Baksic swept the women’s marathon.

A trio of paddlers is banding together to raise money for global peace through competitive endurance paddling. PL checks in with founder Dwanye VanHoose...

2012 REP Whitewater Challenge $5,000 in cash and prizes for freestyle, SUP surf and downriver events at Select REP-designed river parks Recreation Engineering & Planning,...

Kayakers tackling Class V Gore Canyon on the Colorado might soon be bringing playboats on their racks as well as creekers. Grand County is planning to build a whitewater park on the Colorado River below Gore Canyon, just above Pumphouse and at Inspiration Point. But the movement needs paddlers' help by March 7...

The Green River's whitewater canyon Gates of Lodore and the popular fishing stretches upstream in Brown's Park have at least had a water flow stay of execution with FERC recently dismissing the initial permit application for pipeline project that would pull water out of the Flaming Gorge Dam upstream...

$27,500 can buy a lot of shuttle gas money. Or, it can buy you a stand-up paddleboard. That was the price tag for the world's most expensive SUP, a Jimmy Lewis-designed board which recently sold an auction as a benefit for the Everglades Foundation in Palm Beach, Florida...

A four-acre land donation from a resident of Friendsville, Md., should mean a permanent, safe, and convenient takeout for the Upper Youghiogheny this spring. The land is large enough for a 125-car parking lot with room for expansion.

What would you do if you were an extreme boater living Down Under in New Zealand and vying for a spot on the Olympic Slalom team to compete this summer in London? If you’re Teva team member Mike Dawson, you hang up gates on a flooding Class V Kaituna to train on perhaps the toughest slalom course in the world...

The extreme sea kayaking world lost one of its most ardent pioneers with the recent passing of Eric Soares, a founding member of California’s Tsunami Rangers, a kayaking club specializing in big-wave feats along the rocky California coast. Soares died unexpectedly on Feb. 1 at age 58...

Starkell is probably best known for his World Record two-year and 20,000-kilometer canoe trip from Winnipeg, MB, to Belém, Brazil. Don and his sons Dana and Jeff set out on June 1, 1980. Although only Don and Dana finished the journey, they arrived in Belém on May 2, 1982 after surviving alligators, piranhas, drug smugglers, pirates, food poisoning, hurricanes, and their own personal relationship issues.

Pelican International is adding 12 new models to its line-up this year, including six new kayaks and three SUPs...

Werner Paddles has another strong paddler in its line-up, recently adding Taylor Robertson as its new Southwest Sales Representative.

In 2009 Freya Hoffmeister—a 46-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant—paddled alone and unsupported 9,420 miles around Australia, breaking Paul Caffyn’s record set 27 years earlier. Now she’s at it again, this time nearly 150 days into her expedition to circumnavigate South America alone and unsupported. Click on for clips from her blog, which include surviving three brutal days on a deserted pile of rock called Isla Deceit while scratching her way to Cape Horn...

In the search for their newest Team Rider, Shred Ready was accepting video. While hundreds of stout paddlers submitted footage, only one, Jordan Byrum would join the team.

In this installment, USACK member Benn Fraker arrives in Australia to begin his training for the London Games. Who knew the training involved cliff jumping?

First Descents, a non-profit founded by Brad Ludden that provides free outdoor adventure experiences for young adults battling cancer, is taking its programs international with new offerings from Peru to Costa Rica...