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Pisco Sours, Coca Leaves and Paddling Peru’s Marañón, the “Grand Canyon of the South”

“Buenas lineas,” says Luigi. “Good lines.” Seconds later, Luchin passes me a bag of coca leaves and I cram some in my mouth for...
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Conservation

River Management Society Beefs-up River Data Directory

Looking to paddle a river somewhere? Now you’ve got some help with the National River Recreation Database, a geospatial portfolio of information on Wild...
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Destinations

Whitewater Parks Still Making Waves: Mountain towns transforming riverfronts into recreational and revenue hotbeds

A wave of whitewater parks continues to roll into river towns like swells undulating toward a shoreline, ushering in a new era of recreation...
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Destinations

Seattle’s Lake Union: A Paddling Primer

 New York has its Central Park, San Antonio has its Riverwalk, but there are very few other places like Seattle, Washington’s Lake Union: a...
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Events

Paddlesports Trade Coalition Colab Event Huge Success in OK City

The Paddlesports Trade Coalition Colab, billed as a new type of industry gathering, went off without a hitch Sept. 4–6 at the Riversport OKC whitewater park...
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Contests

Photo Caption Contest Winners!

Hooboy, we asked for it and we got it. The entries for this quarter's Photo Caption Contest poured in like the glaciers where these...
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Conservation

Dam Project Complete! Cali’s Klamath Runs Free!

The Klamath is now running free. The largest dam removal project in US history was completed at the end of August, after crews demolished the...
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Wear Your Lifejacket: 18-Year-Old Florida Star Athlete Drowns Kayaking

Wear your lifejacket whenever you go out on the water. That’s the message the U.S. Coast Guard wants to get out, and one that...
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Paddling Life Exclusives

Good Gauley, Miss Molly: AW’s Gauley Fest Sept 19-22!

Good Gauley, Miss Molly! American Whitewater's Gauley Fest is Turning 40, Complete with an '80s-theme party! Get ready for some of the best whitewater in...
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Destinations

Viva the Vic! Famous Salida, CO, Watering Hole to Reopen

River runners will meet rednecks again in Colorado’s most booming river town, with the infamous Vic (Victoria) bar re-opening in downtown Salida, Colo., at...
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Athlete Stories

New Wick Walker Book: Torrents As Yet Unknown: Daring Whitewater Ventures into the World’s Great River Gorges

Like river reads the raise your hackles? Then you’ll love a new book out by longtime expedition paddler Wick Walker, “Torrents As Yet Unknown:...
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Accessories

What’s in Your Adventure Box?! – Pelican TX80 Adventure Case

I’ve been rocking the Pelican TX80 Adventure Case in the back of my truck for about five months. Whether it be to bust out...
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Kayak Fishing

Fish Kayakers Followed by Great White Shark

Thankfully, the sharks weren't interested in their bait. Nevertheless, two fish kayakers about a mile offshore in Northern California’s Half Moon Bay got a scare...
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Events

2024 Ocoee River Carnage Party Sept. 1

Like carnage? It doesn’t get any better than at the Ocoee Carnage Party September 1 at Highway 64 Gym in Copperhill, Tennessee, an annual...
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Travel

New Book: “What the River Knows: Essays from the Heart of Alaska”

There's a new book out, with Alaskan rivers playing the starring role. Edward Abbey, who never much liked Alaska, called it “our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state.”...
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Kayak Fishing

Striper Madness Nearly Turns Deadly for Kayak Angler

Ambrose Salmini was going through a rough patch in April 2022 and like many of us he took comfort in fishing. But that wasn’t...
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Evergreen

Q&A: Adventure Photographer Joe Klementovich, on Documenting Paddles and “Doing a little good each time you go”

Joe Klementovich features frequently on PBS for his multiday paddling trips with a purpose. As an ambassador for Rivers for Change, he paddles the...
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Canoeing

All Eyes on Evy: Leibfarth Wins Bronze in Women’s C-1 (First US Slalom Medal Since 2004)

Chalk one up for Evy. Twenty-year-old Evy Leibfarth from North Carolina made history by winning the bronze medal in the women's canoe singles (C1)...
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Athlete Stories

Fox Takes Olympic Gold in Women’s K-1

There was nothing sly at all about Australian Jessica Fox's commanding gold medal win in women's K1 Slalom at the Paris Olympics. She won...
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Conservation

NRS Releases “Paddle Tribal Waters Part II: Bring the Salmon Home” 

In July 2023, the concrete walls of the Copco 2 Dam came tumbling down, the first of four dams slated for demolition on the...
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Athlete Stories

5th Time’s a Charm: New Zealand’s Luuka Jones Preparing for 5th and Final Olympic Games in Paris

Count 'em...New Zealand’s Luuka Jones will have a whopping 20 years between her first and final Olympic appearance as she prepares for her fifth and...
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Stand Up Paddle Boarding

Use a Quick-Release: Famed Chef Naomi Pomeroy Drowns in SUP Accident, Safety Experts Weight In

As reported by Associated Press, Naomi Pomeroy, an award-winning chef out of Portland, Ore., drowned in a SUP/inner tubing accident at age 49 on...
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Athlete Stories

Palm Equipment, Pyranha Celebrate Bren Orton with Community Paddle Day Aug. 31

Let's call it a Bren Day. Or, as Bren Orton would say, a "Class Joy" day—which, to us here at Paddling Life, is the...
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Events

Boo: Registration Opens for 2024 Witch Paddle

Forget broomsticks. A group of "witch paddlers" in Colorado take to SUPs every year instead of kitchen-sweepers. Witch Paddle announced that registration for the 2024...
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Hurricane Helene Wreaks Path of Havoc and Destruction in SE; Swells Rivers to Record Levels

Some events put recreational pastimes like paddling into perspective. Such is the case with Hurricane Helene, which made landfall...
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Destinations

Pisco Sours, Coca Leaves and Paddling Peru’s Marañón, the “Grand Canyon of the South”

“Buenas lineas,” says Luigi. “Good lines.” Seconds later, Luchin passes me a bag of coca leaves and I cram...
Athlete Stories

5X World C-1 Champ Jon Lugbill to Retire from Richmond’s Sports Backers

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟏 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 a five-time C-1 Whitewater Slalom World...

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