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Paddling Life's roundup of recent news in the paddling world. Paddling Immortality Plus Big Oscar, Toy Tao, Bobbing for Spam, A Fire in the Boundary Waters, and More! Achieving paddling immortality takes more than mad skills and big brass balls. You’ve also got to preserve the silver-and-cellulose record, says Kent Ford, whose “Digitize Paddlesports Project” (www.performancevideo.com) converts filmed exploits to digital video. “Film of the early paddling days is decaying in closets across the country,” he says. “We’re documenting the evolution of paddlesports and can use all the footage we can get.”

There’s a Great Pumpkin Paddle War going on in the Northwest. While recently planning to paddle a pumpkin for 10 miles on North Dakota’s Red River, Minnesota’s Rick Swenson received a text that Charity Marshall had paddled one 16 miles on Washington’s Cowlitz River. So he kept going, for a total 14 hours no less at a little under 2 mph, clocking a new “unofficial” pumpkin paddling record of 26 miles

What would you do if you took a trip to Siberia, had the time of your life, and wanted to share it with friends? If you’re Australia’s Michael Schneider, you found a company specializing in that exact thing, targeting the Kamchatka coastline for your next sea kayaking adventure.