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Supalicious: 5 Top Inflatable SUPs for Every Occasion
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Paddlesport Sales Skyrocket 56 Percent in June
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Top 10 Best Inflatable Kayaks from Paddling Life
Top 10 Best Inflatable Kayaks
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How To Buy A Whitewater Raft
Selecting The Right Whitewater Raft For Your Rafting Needs
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The Evolution of Inflatable Kayaks – A New Drop Stitch IK Comes to Market
While the world of Standup Paddleboards has long enjoyed the extreme rigidity provided by drop-stitch construction, there has never been an inflatable kayak utilizing...
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Paddling World Mourns Loss of Shredder Inventor Tom Love
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A Packraft for All Occasions
Packrafts are taking the paddling world by storm…
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Alpacka Raft and Randy Newberg Team Up to Unlock Public Lands
When private land ownership blocks access points, public land is not always made public. Unlocking inaccessible public land for recreational use takes some finesse...
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Advanced Elements Ambassador Dale Simmons Moving the Needle for Inflatables
Despite the fact that he's only been doing this for about five years, Dale Simmons is one of the most recognizable figures in the...
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Hyside Sells, Headquarters Moves to Utah
Hyside, a longtime maker of inflatable rafts and IKs, has sold after 38 years
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Chasing Scale: A Tale of Two Advanced Elements Ambassadors on the Fly
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Pack and Roll: The AIRE BAKraft
The reports are in: The AIRE Hybrid BAKraft has your back when what it comes to getting you out in the boonies — and...
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Review: Rocky Mountain Rafts’ (RMR) Latest Design, the PEAK 16
The RMR PEAK 16: Peak performance at a not-peak price.
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Advanced Elements Delivers High Performance Through Drop-Stitch Technology
Advanced Elements, Inc., makers of world-class inflatable kayaks by any standard, have brought updates to two of their classics, which has resulted in two...
Events
AIRE Celebrates 30th Anniversary (Rolls Out Puma Classic)
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Advanced Elements Ambassador: Case Study Berthold Hinrichs (and a Close Encounter with Whales)
Inflatable paddlecraft company Advanced Elements lets its boats, and paddlers, do the talking. That’s why it has more than 20 ambassadors on board testing...
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Company Spotlight: Advanced Elements — From Waterbeds to IKs
Someone who invented a product that lets you sleep on water is also good at designing products that let you paddle on it. Such is...
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Gamechangers: Alpacka Raft Creates a “New Way to See the World”
Alpacka Raft Pack Rafts Expand the Possible
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Destinations
Fish on! Packrafting for the Black Canyon’s Salmonfly Hatch
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Raftopia Comes to Downriver Equip April 6-8
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Alpacka Launches Uber-light Caribou Packraft
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Destinations
Kokopelli Packraft Launches Kickstarter Campaign for New Rogue-Lite
Kokopelli now has a Kickstarter campaign going for its new Rogue-Lite packraft, which collapses down to the size of a paper towel roll. Don't believe us?
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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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