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Athlete Registration Opens for the 2023 GoPro Mountain Games in Vail
Better start practicing. Athlete registration is now open for the GoPro Mountain Games, which are returning to Vail, Colorado, June 8-11.
Each June the GoPro...
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Photo Essay: Wacky Red Bull Rapids!
Not all Red Bull events are uber-extreme. Case in point: Red Bull Rapids, which took place at at Riversport OKC in Oklahoma City on Aug...
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Great Alabama 650, the World’s Longest Annual Paddle Race, Kicks off Oct 1-11
The world’s longest annual paddle race is set to test the mettle—and blister threshold—of core-to-the-bone paddlers Oct. 1-11 in the Great Alabama 650, a...
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A Glint at Sprint: Olympians Add to Their Medal Tally
Apparently, Olympic gold medals weren’t enough. Olympic champions Lisa Carrington, Balint Kopasz and Shixiao Xu and Mengya Sun showed the same winning form that took them to gold in Tokyo last...
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Gore Race Cancelled—But Festival Still a Boatload of Fun
Darn insurance companies.
This year's Gore Fest race, Colorado's marquee Class V kayak race down Gore Canyon of the Colorado slated for Saturday, Aug. 27,...
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Sending It, Sierra-style: 28th Annual Cherry Creek Race Celebrates Beloved Capt’n Kirk
While Class V kayak races like the Green and North Fork Championships seem to garner the lion’s share of the press, countless others throughout...
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Paddlesports Booming: Big Gear Show Recap from Park City
The Big Gear Show, the marquee tradeshow for cycling, paddlesports and outdoor gear, wrapped up in Park City, Utah, on August 2-3, hosting two...
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2022 World Paddlesports Festival Set for Aug 26-29 in OKC
Call it a Festivus for the Restivus.
With the ICF Canoe Sprint Super Cup and Stand Up Paddling World Cup relocated from Russia to Oklahoma City's Riversport...
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Wind, High Water and One Whacko Race: 10 Records Set at 2022 Yukon River Quest
Crushing wind, unrelenting rain, high water levels, and dangerous debris are just some of the adverse conditions that made the 2022 Yukon River Quest...
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COVID, Schmovid: Dane Jackson, Great Britain’s Robinson-Shaw Take World Freestyle Kayak Crowns
Even COVID-19 couldn’t keep kayak phenom Dane Jackson from winning his fourth World Freestyle Kayak Championship.
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British freestyle paddler Ottilie Robinson-Shaw completed a record-breaking world championship clean...
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2022 Golden Rodeo Down River Race Results
2022 Golden Rodeo Down River Race On Wednesday, June 29th, the Colorado Whitewater Association hosted a spectacular down river race in the heart of Golden,...
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New King & Queen of North Fork Champs: Hayden Voorhees, Jenn Chrimes Take Crowns
There’s a new King and Queen of the North Fork Championships, Idaho’s prestigious Class V kayak race on the state’s crown jewel North Fork...
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Jackson Goes 3-for-3: Freestyle Win Caps Hattrick at GoPro Games: Next Stop, North Fork Champs
While most other mono-discipline competitors are either arriving in Banks, ID, early to train for the high-water North Fork Championships June 17-18, or heading...
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Double Win for Dane Jackson at GoPro Games
Wednesday's Steep Creek Championship in Colorado saw some equally steep competition but, in what has increasingly become as no surprise, Dane Jackson won the...
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On Your Marks: GoPro Games Off and Running in Vail, CO
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the GoPro Mountain Games are off and running, hitting Vail, CO, June 7-12, with a slate of paddling events once...
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Yampa River Festival 2022 – PL Catches up with Clay Wright of Jackson Kayaks
Paddling Life's Eugene Buchanan catches up with Clay Wright of Jackson Kayaks at the 2022 Yampa River Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO. Clay just finished...
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Little White Salmon Kicks Off Extreme Race Season; Wells Wins for Men, Newman for Women
The year’s extreme kayak race season kicked off with a bang on Washington’s Little White Salmon River on March 26, with boaters crawling out...
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Meet the USA Freestyle Kayak Squad; Next Stop, England Worlds!
Well, the USA Freestyle Kayaking Team’s Team Trials at Oklahoma City’s RiverSports Whitewater Center are all said and done, after a whirlwind of high-flying...
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OR Show Moves Back to Salt Lake City
After a run of five years in Denver, Colo., Outdoor Retailer is saying hasta luego to Colorado for its two annual tradeshows and heading...
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The Dusi: A Doozey of a Race
Chaos, carnage and camaraderie ruled at this year’s Dusi Canoe Marathon 2022 in South Africa, with champions crowned but others struggling to cross the...
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Blisters, Anyone? AR Panama Race Tests Mettle (Including 145KM of Sea Kayaking)
With Covid concerns slowly easing, Adventure Racing, with its finger-blistering and shoulder-blowing sea kayaking component, is coming back bigger and better than ever. Case in...
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Canoecopia Back on Track Mar. 9-11
It's baaaacckkkk! After cancelling the show at the last minute when the pandemic first hit in 2020, and changing last year’s in-person show into...
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Wait, What? $100K for Kayak Fishing?
Yep, you heard right. There’s big news on the 2022 Hobie Bass Open Series (B.O.S.) Anchored by Power-Pole trail. Hobie has just bumped the total purse for its...
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2022 Big Gear Show Update
It’s back. The Big Gear Show, which held its inaugural trade event at Park City, Utah’s Deer Valley Resort in August, will hold its...
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The Case for 12-foot Kayaks: Dagger’s New Vanguard Notches 9 of Top 10 Spots in Little White Salmon Race
Starting a hot discussion on Facebook, Dagger's new 12-foot Vanguard kayak notched a whopping nine out of the top...
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Upstate New York Launches 3-Trip, Scenic Paddle Challenge
Chasing the gnar isn't the only way to be challenged on the water. For whitewater paddlers, the area in the...
SUP Maker BOTE Opens 5th Retail Store, in Ft. Lauderdale
SUP, IK-maker Continues Growth with Immersive, Community-Driven Retail Experience BOTE, longstanding leader of innovation in the paddle board, kayak, and...
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