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Paddling Life Exclusives
Detroit Loses Paddling Advocate and Philanthropist
Let's just say the world needs more people like Missy Kinyon. And so does the paddling world.
As reported in the Detroit Free Press, Musician...
Events
Northern Forest Canoe Trail Silent Auction Nov. 15-30!
Forget Black Friday. Score great paddling gear and other products while supporting the greatest paddling trail in the country by visiting the Northern Forest...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Richard Bangs Releases New Book: “The Art of Living Dangerously” (with Special PL Q&A)
In 1973, Richard Bangs founded Sobek Expeditions, the original and now largest adventure travel company in the world, with over a million clients guided...
Athlete Stories
Paddling Rigs: Hard Core Paddles Owner’s Chevy Express Van Conversion into an Adventure Rig
The Adventure Rig
Mike Nash is known throughout the greater Seattle area and Northwest as a fabricator, paddle machinery designer, creator, kayaker, honey badger, and...
Destinations
Oklahoma Gets New $30M Whitewater Park
WOKA is transforming the town of Watts, Oklahoma.
Following 2016’s opening of the $45 million Oklahoma Whitewater Center/Riversport Rapids in downtown Oklahoma City, the town...
Destinations
Sea Kayaking Deception Pass
(by Ken Campbell) Deception Pass is home to the wildest salt water in Washington State. There are other places that boast strong currents, to be...
Paddling Life Exclusives
One Down, Three to Go: First Dam Down on Cali’s Klamath (A Report from American Whitewater)
An Important Milestone on the Klamath – Removal of the Copco 2 Dam Complete! By: Thomas O'Keefe Crews spent October putting the final touches on the...
Athlete Stories
Nepal Earthquake a Scary Experience for Kayakers on Thuli Bheri
According to Rush Sturges, who was on a kayaking trip in Nepal with Benny Marr and several other paddlers when the recent earthquake struck,...
Competition
Family Affair At the NRS Green Race: 1st Mother/Son Duo, Multiple Father/Sons, and Friedenson Bests Jackson
It was a family affair at this year's coveted NRS Green Race on Asheville, N.C.'s Green River, with multiple parent/sibling pairings showcasing boaters paddling...
Athlete Stories
Hip Problems for Kayakers (FAI), and Surgical Repair
We all know kayaking uses your hips. "Hip snap!" we all hear when learning to roll. And we use our hips when bracing, boofing,...
Canoeing
This Man Has 130 Kayaks at His Home: Kayak Museum Curator Charlie Albright
Spouse give you a hard time about how many boats you have laying around the house? That’s nothing compared to the quiver amassed by...
Sweepstakes
2023 Paddling Life Photo Contest
2023 FALL PHOTO CONTEST IS HERE
Yep, with autumn's colors in full swing, send in your best fall photo (with a boat in it, of...
Sweepstakes
2023 Paddling Life Fall Photo Contest!
2023 FALL PHOTO CONTEST IS HERE
Yep, with autumn's colors in full swing, send in your best fall photo (with a boat in it, of...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Hala Pits Its Boards Against Cowboys in Marketing Campaign
Want a firsthand look at how tough Hala Gear SUPs are? Now you can say they're cowboy tough. Witness their unique marketing campaign, Hala...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Forget Canton: IWHOF Releases 2023 Whitewater Hall of Fame Video
At its induction ceremony hosted at this summer’s Paddle Sports Show in France, the World River Centre, on behalf of the International Whitewater Hall...
Camping
TESTED : SylvanSport TraiLOFT Rooftop Tent/Trailer Combo: Campalicious!
With fall happening in the Northwest, the perfect time to do a few trips, Paddling Life had the opportunity recently to test out the...
Destinations
Sea Kayaking Washington’s Dungeness Spit
By Ken Campbell Every year Dungeness Spit gets a little bigger. This striking landform that extends out into the waters of Washington's Strait of Juan...
Paddling Life Exclusives
“Arctic Cowboys” Team Completes First-ever Sea Kayak Navigation of Northwest Passage
It’s a big, big first. An expedition team dubbed “The Arctic Cowboys,” led by Explorer’s Club member West Hansen, completed the first kayak navigation...
Inflatables
Hyside BattleCat Review – a Bigger Paddlecat
By Brian Pernick Ay first we had some hesitation about the new Hyside BattleCat. My wife Katie’s background was in bigger paddle rafts, and she...
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Athlete Stories
The Jackson 5: Sage Donnelly Wins for Women, Dane Jackson for Men at ICF Freestyle World Championships
No, it's not the disco band. This Jackson Five goes to kayaker Dane Jackson. The world’s greatest male freestyle paddler and a former junior...
Evergreen
PL Founder Touts Benefits of Getting Kids Outside in Men’s Journal Story
Paddling Life founder Eugene Buchanan is no stranger to getting outside, and dragging his kids along with him. In face, one of this books,...
Competition
Watch the World Freestyle Champs Live!
It's all going down this week at the the World Freestyle Championships in Columbus, GA, as the top freestyle kayakers in the world battle...
Athlete Stories
Kayaking the Ill-advised RedBull “Rampage” Line
Okay, some things are just stupid. Such could well be the case with kayaker Bradon Sweeney, who recently took the lumbar-compressing liberty of kayaking Utah's...
Events
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...
Latest news
Detroit Loses Paddling Advocate and Philanthropist
Let's just say the world needs more people like Missy Kinyon. And so does the paddling world.
As reported in...
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Northern Forest Canoe Trail Silent Auction Nov. 15-30!
Forget Black Friday. Score great paddling gear and other products while supporting the greatest paddling trail in the country...
Grassroots Connect Sets Record for Fall Show; Paddlesports Retailers Report So-So Sales
Grassroots Connect Sets Record for Fall Show In a season of divergent retail trends, in paddlesports and other outdoor categories,...
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Detroit Loses Paddling Advocate and Philanthropist
Let's just say the world needs more people like...
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Forget Black Friday. Score great paddling gear and other...
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2016 Yampa River Festival/SUP Cup June 3-5 2016!
Held the weekend before the GoPro Games in nearby Vail, Colo., allowing professional paddlers the opportunity to swing by and paddle the Yampa River, the Yampa River Festival, SUP Cup and Paddling Life Creek Race is a fun-filled paddling event held in downtown Steamboat Springs, CO, on the Yampa River, the last remaining free-flowing tributary to the Colorado River system. Hosted by local river advocacy group Friends of the Yampa, the river festival is an annual event based around the Yampa River that draws paddlers from across the state to Steamboat to participate in canoe, kayak and raft races, stand-up paddleboard events, river dog contests, fishing demos and more.