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Looking for some great rafting reading to get you through this COVID-confined Christmas, and spark your juices for the upcoming paddling season? Our friends at...
Destinations
The World’s Top 10 Rafting Trips
Although many guides evoke the image, you don’t have to be a bleach-blonde, toothpaste poster boy to enjoy rafting. Once Covid restrictions lift —...
Canoeing
Paddling World Mourns Loss of Sea Kayak Pioneer Stanislav Chládek
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NRS Releases “River of Return” (Bonus Q&A with Producers!)
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Destinations
Dams Getting Closer to Coming Down on Cali’s Klamath
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Emily Jackson on Finding Balance in Life
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Destinations
Poof, Gone! 300-foot-deep Lake Above AK Sea Kayak Hotspot Disappears
Ice-dammed Bear Glacier Lake in Alaska, located above the popular sea kayaking spot of Bear Lagoon frequented by outfitters out of Seward, has vanished...
Events
Closing In On 4 Minutes: A Q&A with 25th Green Race Record-setter Dane Jackson (Watch Video!)
While things looked a little different due to COVID restrictions at this year’s marquee 2020 Green Race — an extreme kayaking race on Asheville,...
Paddling Industry News
Nouria Newman Makes a Case for Saving Italy’s Sorba
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Paddling Life Exclusives
Whale of a Tale: Humpback Capsizes Calif. Kayaker (Watch Video)
As reported by CNN, two sea kayakers off coast of Avila Beach, California, got a scare from a humpback whale recently that they will...
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Chile, Colorado Kayak Pioneer Robbie Dastin Passes Away
Mourning the loss of Robbie Dastin
Longtime Chilean and Colorado kayakers — especially those of the slightly older persuasion — are mourning the loss of...
Paddling Industry News
“He Could Sell Shit to a Cow:” Watch Tribute Video to Martin Litton
Some say he rowed with an angel on his shoulder. But renowned conservationist and dory aficionado Martin Litton was the angel on the shoulder of...
Paddling Life Exclusives
How to Use, Setup, and Clean a Groover.
Groover duty. It's a dirty business but someone has to do it.
Bringing a groover on a river trip is a necessary evil and many...
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Inflatables
Catching Up with AIRE Co-founder Alan Hamilton
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Events
Quick-thinking Kayakers Rescue Fellow Paddler Trapped Behind W. Va.’s Kanawha Falls
Chalk one up for the camaraderie of kayakers. In a story broken by Fayette County, West Va.’s WCHSTV.com, a Tennessee kayaker was rescued from behind...
Inflatables
Supalicious: 5 Top Inflatable SUPs for Every Occasion
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Multi-Sport
The New Sport of…Skateyakking!
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Paddling Life Exclusives
No Matter How You Slice It: A Big Paddler’s Review of the Pyranha Ozone
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Inflatables
Paddlesport Sales Skyrocket 56 Percent in June
While paddlesports sales were treading water at best prior to COVID-19, the pandemic has put them back on the path to prosperity, with sales...
Paddling Gear
Whitewater Kayak Review: Chalka One Up for the Waka Steeze (If You Please)
My name is Alex Dodge, and I'm here to write a review of the Waka Steeze. But first a little bit about me, for a...
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Canoeing
National Rivers Project Details Info on Wild & Scenic Rivers
Want to paddle a Wild & Scenic or other picturesque river? It just got a whole lot easier.
Put out by the River Management Society,...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Kayaker Finds 35-year-old Message in a Bottle
Cue Sting’s “Message in a Bottle” song. A kayaker on Delaware’s Broadkill River found a bottle with a message inside of it that was written...
Camping
Self-support on the South Fork Main Salmon (Bonus: Gear I Used and Video!)
“Damn, if this is another un-named rapid, we’re in for a doozey,” I think to myself, the last of us bobbing in a pulsing,...
Destinations
Kayaking Near Me: Great Southwest Trip Ideas from Alpacka!
Looking to avoid travel, but still want to have fun? Not all adventures require flight travel or long distances. Avoid the crowds, hop in...
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WIN This Yeti Hopper 8 Soft Cooler
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Special Pre-release Pyranha Scorch Review (with Sweet Vid)!
Special Pre-release 2021 Pyranha Scorch Video Review
(by Nick Hinds) Check out more of Nick's detailed Scorch review for more texture... I...
Hobie Sold; PL Catches Up with New Chairman Taso Sofikitis
On Jan. 25, pedal-drive kayak company Hobie Cat Co. was sold from one private equity group to another, consisting...
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Special Pre-release Pyranha Scorch Review (with Sweet Vid)!
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Hobie Sold; PL Catches Up with New Chairman Taso Sofikitis
On Jan. 25, pedal-drive kayak company Hobie Cat Co....
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