Destinations
It’s River Permit Time! (Link to Resources Here!)
It's river permit season, all you freeloading dirtbags.
Ensure your chance to keep getting invited on river trips by actually applying for, and hopefully pulling,...
Destinations
New River Gorge To Become National Park
Get ready to raft in a new national park. West Virginia’s New River Gorge is set to become the nation’s newest national park, thanks to...
Canoeing
How One California Outfitter Has Weathered 4 Fires (and now COVID)
For river outfitter Russian River Adventures, located in the heart of Sonoma Valley wine country in Healdsburg, Calif., adversity has come with the territory...
Canoeing
Nation’s Top River Sojourns
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Canoeing
Freakin’ Fluminkohala! Paddling the Big Island’s Irie Irrigation Ditch
While Hawaii’s Big Island might be known for its surf, snorkeling and lava flows, Class I paddlers also have an option in the 112-year-old...
Destinations
The World’s Top 10 Rafting Trips
Although many guides evoke the image, you don’t have to be a bleach-blonde, toothpaste poster boy to enjoy rafting. Once Covid restrictions lift —...
Destinations
Group Fights to Save Ecuador’s Newest Whitewater Gem: El Rio Piatua
Now, it's getting downright indigenous. In November, a coalition of civil society organizations and law professors submitted an amicus brief to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court calling...
Destinations
Dams Getting Closer to Coming Down on Cali’s Klamath
When two tribes, two states and Warren Buffett step up and commit to the world’s biggest dam removal project – it’s a big deal. So...
Destinations
Poof, Gone! 300-foot-deep Lake Above AK Sea Kayak Hotspot Disappears
Ice-dammed Bear Glacier Lake in Alaska, located above the popular sea kayaking spot of Bear Lagoon frequented by outfitters out of Seward, has vanished...
Destinations
Small World Adventures Cancels Ecuador Season Due to Pandemic
Now it’s getting personal for paddlers. Due to the global pandemic Small World Adventures is cancelling its Ecuador season of whitewater kayaking. In a letter to...
Destinations
New Wild and Scenic Rivers Bill Introduced for Montana
Forget Kevin Costner and his new watch-me-cowboy "Yellowstone" series. There's bigger news for Montana: the state might soon be getting more Wild & Scenic...
Destinations
Baffin or Bust: An Alpacka Packraft Paddle and Climb Expedition
Where can an Alpacka packraft take you, you ask? How about to Baffin Island, for a paddling and climbing expedition? Read on for just...
Destinations
Lord of the Fork Race (Spoiler: Dane Won) Kicks Off KY’s Biggest Kayak Weekend
It’s East Coast extreme kayaking race season, COVID be damned. And it kicked off the last weekend of October on Kentucky’s Russell Fork. Every...
Destinations
The Down-low on Creeking the Dominican Republic
By Adam Goshorn In the blue waters of the Caribbean, the island of Hispaniola rises from the sea to an astounding 10,164 feet atop...
Destinations
Gauley During COVID: A Personal Account
Essay By Darcy Gaechter It didn't feel like there was a global pandemic raging as we pulled into the Tail Waters launch site -- the...
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Canoeing
National Rivers Project Lists National Wildlife Refuge Paddling Trails
Want to paddle one of the country’s 18 national wildlife refuges and 103 official water trails?
It’s easier than ever now, thanks to the National...
Accessories
An Olympic Adventure: Tshletshy Creek – the Best Whitewater in Washington?
(By Ryan Scott) I’d been looking at the description for Tshletshy Creek in the ‘Paddlers Guide to the Olympic Peninsula’ for 10 years now, wondering and...
Canoeing
National Rivers Project Details Info on Wild & Scenic Rivers
Want to paddle a Wild & Scenic or other picturesque river? It just got a whole lot easier.
Put out by the River Management Society,...
Destinations
Kayaking Near Me: Great Southwest Trip Ideas from Alpacka!
Looking to avoid travel, but still want to have fun? Not all adventures require flight travel or long distances. Avoid the crowds, hop in...
Camping
Taking to the Trout Laden Waters of the Idaho-Wyoming Border
Sometimes the only reason to go paddling is to get out on the water and wet a line. Sometimes. Especially if you are in...
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Meet Alpacka Packraft Stud Stanley Mulvany (with Podcast!)
Want to get to know one of the packrafting world’s most ardent — and well-aging — paddlers?
Look no further than New Zealander and avid...
Destinations
1,000 Fish and Counting: Hobie Bass Open Series Sees Snyders Snag Podium
For most of the 84 kayak anglers fishing the Hobie B.O.S. event in La Crosse, WI, the prospect of fast action was never in doubt....
Canoeing
Permit System Comes to Lower Gunnison’s Dominguez-Escalante Canyon
Flatwater aficionados in Colorado might see another one of their favorite non-permitted multi-day floats fall victim to regulation again (like Ruby-Horsethief on the Colorado),...
Destinations
Kayaking Near Me: All the Tools You Need to Get Paddling in Amazing Places
When it comes to getting out to paddle, home or away, you need to know where to go! Make sure that you never go...
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PL Q&A Exclusive: Filmmaker Scott Blankenfeld Releases New Vid of Cali’s South Silver First Descent
First run in the late ‘90s, California’s South Silver drains the Sierra Nevada in a torrent of cascades, creating...
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Smokeless Fire Made Possible with BioLite’s FirePit+
Ideal for cool quarantine nights, BioLite’s FirePit+ makes smokeless fire possible in any environment. Review by Shae Laplace When I say...
Choo-choo Chew on This: Colorado’s Browns Canyon Threatened by Oil Trains
Paddlers taking to Colorado’s beloved Browns Canyon of the Arkansas could soon see the iconic wilderness whitewater run jeopardized...
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New River Gorge To Become National Park
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