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Adventure Xstream’s 8th season--a 6-event multisport endurance series featuring paddling, navigation, mountain biking, trail runrning, rappeling and Tyrolean Traverses--started off witha bang with record numbers charging off the starting line in Moab, Utah, on April 5, 2008. PL's man in the field chimes in...

Topping this year's Most Endgangered Rivers List released by Washington, D.C.'s American Rivers are three paddling favorites: North Carolina's Catawba; Oregon's Rogue and Colorado's Poudre. “Water is a precious resource," says AR President Rebecca Wodder. "We must treat it as such..."

This Memorial Day presents a chance to satisfy your whitewater craving and conscience at the same time, all while boating with some serious big-shots. Coloma, Calif.'s “Paddle with the Pros” puts proceeds to First Descents, a program designed to empower cancer survivors. You’re likely to have so much fun you’ll forget it’s for a good cause...

PL gave this year's booties a run and we're back with the goods. Slide your dogs into a pair of these and put that uncomfortable past behind you...

Astral Buoyancy Company begins shipment of the highly anticipated V-Eight, the world’s first breathable PFD. Developed for recreational and touring paddlers in warm climates,...

No man chases down Class V cataraft descents like Mark Cramer, and he does so with an eye to safety, supported by the most functional gear available.

Resident badass Rusty Sage recently won the High Performance Finals at the World Kayak Surf Championships and finished third in the World Cup Men's at Santa Cruz. In an exclusive interview, he tells us all about his recent victories, the rigors of surf kayaking, the culture of the sport and upcoming events.

The Young Guns are the rave of whitewater kayaking these days. Maybe that’s because they’re going off the hardest? Whether it’s Tyler Bradt setting a world waterfall record or Anthony Yap inventing another new freestyle move, they're getting it done. And getting it all on film. Paddling Life recently caught up with producer Rush Sturges to talk about their new releases including Source and State of the Art.

Accidents happen, and the best we can do is learn from them. Last year's accident report by American Whitewater pegs the 2007 total for whitewater fatalities at 38, the lowest number since 1997. So the trend, for the time being, seems to be flowing down, just like the rivers where these mishaps occur...

Trip Jennings, Andy Maser and the rest of the Epicocity film crew are in the middle of an "epic" around-the-world river awareness tour. They blog in secret as violence erupts around them.

Our illustrious River Babe, Shea Stevens, is back with her third installment of going through the ropes of guide-training school on Tennessee's Ocoee River (and no, you still can't have her phone number...)

In Scott Lindgren's best work to date, Black Book chronicles the life and times of Steve Fisher, one of whitewater kayaking's most influential athletes. Paddling Life reviews this epic movie and interviews Fisher about the awkward task of editing his own biography.

Fifteen years of competitive freestyle kayaking can take a toll on the mind and body. So while physically still able to throw down with the best of em', last week Jay "All Day" Kincaid pulled a Brett Favre and walked away.

What started as a weekend sale 18 years ago in the land of cheese curds has grown into the industry’s largest consumer show. Held the second weekend of March every year, once again Rutabaga's Canoecopia offered the season's first glimpse at new gear to hit the water this season. PL was on hand to sniff out some of the goods...

While reviews are mixed about the effectiveness of an environmental restoration project that brought the Grand up to a whopping 41,000 cfs in early March, one thing's for sure: those along for the ride got an instant taste of some mambo big-water boating. PL checks in...

Kelley Woolsey has always been a surfer at heart. That’s why it was almost surprising to find him riding one wave for so long as the director of sales and marketing for Confluence Watersports, where he nearly single-handedly kept the company going through good times and bad. Paddling Life caught up with him between sabbatical surf sessions in Hawaii, Long Island, California and Florida to get his take on Confluence, the paddling industry and where the next wave might take him...

Travelogue? Environmental history? Portrait of the people? Mike Barenti's Kayaking Alone changes like the features of a river with every passing page, leaving boaters itching for an expedition. We interviewed the author and found out what wasn't written of his 900 mile solo journey to the ocean.

Duke's canoe club Waikiki supports polynesian voyaging society with Legacy of Aloha donation.

Stearns Inc. introduces the Puddle Jumpers.

2003 was a sad year as one of the most innovative paddling outerwear companies in the industry bid adieu to paddlesports. But now, after fighting through five years of strife, Bomber Gear and owner Rick Fanken are back with a new, recognizable partner and the same bomber gear.

We set out to learn about Idaho’s Payette Boise River Revival – a celebration of both the Payette and Boise River drainages. We ended up learning about the National Rafting Championships, the Boise Whitewater Park, beer and padding your pants for the ladies. Uh…thanks but that was a little too much information. We didn’t edit anything out so you, the reader, can come away with the same weird feeling we did after talking to organizers Sam Goff and Bill Driscoll.

It's the throwbag Eli Manning would want.

Darrell Leidigh laid the foundation of one of the most successful canoe manufacturing companies and leaves behind a legacy of highly acclaimed boats. The canoeing giant will be missed by all elements of the paddling community.

The Nile is one of Africa's greatest whitewater treasures. And by August 2008, it may be gone. Scott Ligare and Katie Scott take us behind the scenes of the Nile dam construction in the third installment of their Last Descents Project