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Inside France’s Paddle Sports Show: New Gear and Video Recap by Bren Orton!
You might have had a hard time getting ahold of company heads and designers at the end of September as most headed across the...
Competition
Slalom Worlds Wrap Up in Great Britain; Next Stop: Paris Olympics!
The ICF World Slalom Championships just wrapped up at Lee Valley, London, this weekend, with home country hero Joe Clarke winning his first ever world...
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Ocoee Carnage Party Celebrates Boating Biffs
Like carnage? It doesn’t get any better than the annual Ocoee Carnage Party, an annual event where raft guides, boaters, and outdoors enthusiasts around...
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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...
Canoeing
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...
Athlete Stories
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,...
Athlete Stories
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...
Canoeing
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...
Canoeing
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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Athlete Stories
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...
Events
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,...
Athlete Stories
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...
Athlete Stories
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...
Athlete Stories
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...
Events
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...
Events
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...
Athlete Stories
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...
Athlete Stories
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...
Canoeing
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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Inside France’s Paddle Sports Show: New Gear and Video Recap by Bren Orton!
You might have had a hard time getting ahold of company heads and designers at the end of September...
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YETI LOADOUT GOBOX 30 GEAR CASE GIVE-A-WAY
YETI and Paddling Life have teamed up to give away a new LOADOUt GOBOX 30. Enter daily for your...
Tahiti Host 30th Annual Hawaiki Nui Va’a (Outrigger Canoe) Race Nov 1-4
Get your outrigger on. Tahiti’s 30th annual Hawaiki Nui Va’a race will take place in the Islands of Tahiti, from ...
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Inside France’s Paddle Sports Show: New Gear and Video Recap by Bren Orton!
You might have had a hard time getting ahold...
Slalom Worlds Wrap Up in Great Britain; Next Stop: Paris Olympics!
The ICF World Slalom Championships just wrapped up at...
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AW Northeast Stewardship Director (and Friend of PL) Alan Panebaker Dies Kayaking in New Hampshire
In another blow to the close-knit paddling community, Alan Panebaker, 29, AW's Northeast Stewardship Director and native of Paddling Life's hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colo., drowned Sept. 19 while paddling with friends on New Hampshire’s Upper Pemigewassett River.