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River Runners for Wilderness’s April Fool’s Newsletter!

Dozer Disappears in Reservoir Sediment...Freak Storm Brings Colorado River Snowpack up to 350% of Average Overnight (Glen Canyon Dam Operators Stock up on Plywood)...Colorado Runs Over Submerged Ridge in Grand Canyon. These stories and more in a PL Exclusive look at an April Fool's Day newsletter sent out by RRFW...
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Confluence Announces New Hires

Confluence Watersports has strengthened its engineering team, Harmony accessory team, and customer service team with three, key new hires in the first quarter, 2009....
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Epicocity Project receives National Geographic Grant for Bolivia Climate Change Project

The Epicocity Project is currently in Bolivia on an exploratory kayak expedition that combines class V adventure and an investigation of climate change.
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No Rest for the West

Boaters flocking to Vermont’s West River now need to play hooky from work and school rather than bag the run on a weekend. The Army Corps of Engineers announced that the spring release on the river will now be made during the week rather than on a weekend as has been the practice for decades. PL checks in...
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EddyFlower’s Vertical Challenge to Benefit First Descents

Now you can get your adrenal glands flowing while getting cash flowing for a good cause. EddyFlower has teamed up with First Descents for its Third Annual EddyFlower Vertical Challenge, which runs from May 15 through June 15 on rivers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Tribute to a Legend

The kayaking world lost one of its grandest legends March 13 when Durango, Colo.’s Lars Holbek lost his fight with cancer at age 51. A PL tribute to a true legend with more than 70 first descents worldwide, but more importantly, a spirit that has inspired paddlers for generations...
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Canoecopia Enjoys Solid Show

Every spring, consumers descend upon the annual Canoecopia tradeshow at the 100,000-square-foot Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis., to rub elbows with fellow paddlers, and rub fingers on and shop for the latest goods in paddlesports. As well as providing a glimpse of the new goods, it gives those in the industry a barometer of hte season to come...
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Zoar Outdoor Demo Fest

Zoar Outdoor will be hosting the 6th Annual DemoFest, June 26 - 28th, 2009 on the Deerfield River in western, Massachusetts.
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Confluence Revamps Web Sites

Beginning this week and continuing through the end of April, Confluence Watersports will debut completely new websites for its premier brands.
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Corran Addison takes a bold stand against climate change

In an attempt to promote his eco-surfboard company, infamous paddler Corran Addison recently tried to freeze himself solid while paddling a standup paddleboard. Known for pulling controversial media stunts, Addison attempted to once again out-do himself.
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Dry Top Gasket Repair 101

It’s happened to the best of us. It’s the first boating day of the season and as you’re getting your gear on you hear a loud pop. Not from your elbow joint or shoulder, but your dry top. You find it on, but your gasket is sitting on your head. Looks like you’re out of a gasket, and relegated to a cold day kayaking.
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2009 U.S. Freestyle Team Trials at new Glenwood Springs WW Park

This spring, Glenwood Springs will host the U.S. Freestyle Kayak Team Trials at their recently built whitewater park. The park, built last winter, ensures that there will be a good feature for the event in May...
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New World Waterfall Record Claimed in Brazil

Ben Stookesberry just checked in with an exciting update from Brazil, where's his team of Jackson paddlers is filming for the next Hotel Charley flick. Brazilian paddler and expedition member Pedro Olivia stepped it up and ran a huge one...
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Ammons Releases Whitewater Philosophy

With solo runs of Alaska’s Susitna and Canada’s Grand Canyon of the Stikine under his belt, you'd think Idaho's Doug Ammons has a thought or two to share about whitewater. Look for that and more in his recently released “Whitewater Philosophy.” A PL look at the man and his manuscript, complete with excerpts...
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2009 National Paddling Film Festival Winners Announced

The 26th annual National Paddling Film Festival went off yet again in the hills of Kentucky this year on February 20th and 21st. Between runs on the Elkhorn River and bourbon tastings...
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In the footsteps of legends: Oregon Team Attempts Columbia River Source to Sea

Right now, Ryan Scott, Paul Gamache and Keel Brightman are wrapping up day 2 of their two-month source to sea descent of the Columbia River...
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New York Kayaker completes first circumnavigation of Falkland Islands

On January 26, 2008, New York City kayaker Marcus Demuth completed the first successful circumnavigation of the Falkland Islands. Paddling a Nigel Dennis sea kayak, Demuth completed the 615-mile journey in 22 days.
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The Tangled Web of Paddlesports Associations

Rivers merge and become stronger. So what happens when associations representing the paddlesports industry fail to join forces and instead flow their own separate ways? PL dives in...
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Paddling Life Remembers Ann Dwyer

The paddling world lost one of its stalwart promoters and inventors recently when Ann Dwyer, known affectionately as “Grannie Annie,” passed away in January at the age of 83. Her pioneering work in introducing rec kayaks to the market is credited with growing the sport, creating recreational kayaking as a new niche, and bringing countless numbers of people into boats.
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Save Gauley Mountain from Mountaintop Removal Mining!

A destructive mining project is slated for Gauley Mountain, perched between the New and Gauley Rivers, but a campaign hopes to protect the area for local residents and paddlers.
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A Very Convenient Truth

Al Gore is not the only global warming crusader. Three sea kayakers are in the middle of a mission to the world’s most desolate place, Antarctica, to call attention to rising-thermometers as well as Antarctica's first self-supported kayak expedition...
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Paddling Life Recognized as Top Paddling Site by Outside Mag

When you run a first descent or complete a circumnavigation, you tell your peers, right? So allow us to toot our horn for a change. In a January 2009 feature on the 100 Best Adventure Web sites, Outside magazine listed PL as the nation’s best paddling site. Champagne, anyone? How about a cold PBR out of a wetsuit bootie... ,
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A Perfectly Runnable Northwest 70-footer

69-foot Outlet Falls!!! This epic gem was just discovered in Yakima, Wash., a few years ago, but it never had enough water - until Jan., 2009. Only an hour and a half from Portland Oregon, this waterfall flows out of the headwaters of the Klickitat River. Low elevation snow melt is required to make this tiny creek turn into a just enough of a raging torrent to create a soft landing. A PL look at the perfect "park and huck"...
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Riot Parent Co., Voodoo Technologies, Goes Bankrupt

In early February, rumors began to fly that Voodoo Technologies Inc., Riot Kayak’s parent company, had gone bankrupt. Details are sketchy at best, but some are speculating that the Riot brand will live on and continue to manufacture kayaks from their new headquarters in China.
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