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CKS Top Gift Ideas for Rafters
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Inflatable Kayak – Everything You Need to Know About IKs
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Catching Up with AIRE Co-founder Alan Hamilton
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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
This is our comprehensive guide to purchasing an inflatable kayak. We're going to give you the full run down of...
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Meet Alpacka Packraft Stud Stanley Mulvany (with Podcast!)
Want to get to know one of the packrafting world’s most ardent — and well-aging — paddlers?
Look no further than New Zealander and avid...
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How To Buy A Whitewater Raft
Selecting The Right Whitewater Raft For Your Rafting Needs
Whitewater rafts come in a variety styles, shapes, and sizes. Each tailored to specific whitewater needs....
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The Evolution of Inflatable Kayaks – A New Drop Stitch IK Comes to Market
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Paddling World Mourns Loss of Shredder Inventor Tom Love
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A Packraft for All Occasions
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Alpacka Raft and Randy Newberg Team Up to Unlock Public Lands
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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
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Chasing Scale: A Tale of Two Advanced Elements Ambassadors on the Fly
Words by Brock Munson Chasing Scale: Passports? Check. Fly rods? Check. Inflatable kayaks? Check. These are the bare essentials of any Chasing Scale fly-fishing adventure...
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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...
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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
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Gamechangers: Alpacka Raft Creates a “New Way to See the World”
Alpacka Raft Pack Rafts Expand the Possible
Alpacka Raft's more than two dozen employees design, cut, weld, glue, test and ship more than 2,600 Alpacka...
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“They System is to Blame”: Landing a Coveted River Permit an Upstream Battle (By The Colorado Sun)
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