Events
Blisters, Anyone? AR Panama Race Tests Mettle (Including 145KM of Sea Kayaking)
With Covid concerns slowly easing, Adventure Racing, with its finger-blistering and shoulder-blowing sea kayaking component, is coming back bigger and better than ever. Case in...
Canoeing
Canoecopia Back on Track Mar. 9-11
It's baaaacckkkk! After cancelling the show at the last minute when the pandemic first hit in 2020, and changing last year’s in-person show into...
Accessories
NRS Movin’ and Shakin’
Moscow, Idaho’s Northwest River Supplies (NRS) is making moves with big internal developments including promotions in senior leadership, expansion of the product development team...
Canoeing
Loony Laws Concerning Canoes
Prohibited from sitting in a canoe while reading comic books? Banned from using a feather duster to tickle a girl in a canoe? These laws and...
Athlete Stories
Getting Barreled in a River Wave? Dane Jackson Weighs In
This fall, Dane Jackson got something even Kelly Slater cherishes: barreled in a wave.
Only Jackson, paddling Zimbabwe's Zambezi River, got his on a river...
Events
Wait, What? $100K for Kayak Fishing?
Yep, you heard right. There’s big news on the 2022 Hobie Bass Open Series (B.O.S.) Anchored by Power-Pole trail. Hobie has just bumped the total purse for its...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Winning! Sweepstakes Winners Announced!
We have a winner! Yes, folks, April Jacques, from Puget Sound, WA, is the winner of our most recent sweepstakes, taking home a, wait...
Destinations
6 Days/6 Rivers: A Costa Rican Kayaking Odyssey with Amazing Vacations
“Buenas Lineas,” says our guide Arnaldo Cespedes. “Good lines.”
We just finished scouting a Class IV rapid called Robin Hood on Costa Rica’s Rio Naranjo...
Paddling Life Exclusives
2021 Photo Contest Entries Are In
2021 Photo Contest Entries
2021 was a great year to get out and paddle. Check out some of the incredible photo submissions from our 2021...
Evergreen
It’s River Permit Time: 10 Tips from our Friends at CKS!
The Selway. Middle Fork. Yampa. Lodore. Deso/Gray. San Juan. Cataract. Salt. Grand. Those are just a few of the iconic western rivers up for...
Evergreen
Don’t Moose Out…Photo Caption Contest Winners!
Well, the results are in from our most recent Photo Caption Contest, this time witticisms relating to a Bullwinkle encountered by a boater in...
Inflatables
And In This Corner, Weighing In At….! Alpacka Hits the Water Running in 2022 With New Lightweight Boat Line-up
Yes, it sounds like a boxing announcer, and for good reason. Pack raft maker Alpacka is packing in a full, ultralight product line for...
Paddling Industry News
Hellooh 2022: Slew of Acquisitions Lead to Changing Face of Paddlesports
In the past few years, there’s been a changing of the guard of sorts in the paddlesports sector, with new CEOs and companies behind...
Athlete Stories
Of Machetes and High Water: Stookesberry on His Leg Wound on Ecuador’s Rio Chalupas
After a two-pronged attempt of first descent of Ecuador’s notoriously steep Rio Chalupas this fall — which is being kept under wraps until the...
Athlete Stories
Kayak Community Mourns Death of Adam Mayo on Mexico’s Rio Jalacingo (and Injuries to Nathan Werner)
Friends and family, as well as the Colorado and Oregon kayaking communities, are mourning the death of kayaker Adam Mayo, 43, who passed away...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Rockslides and Rafting: Nightmare on the Grand Canyon Kills One, Injures Several
Last summer, a group of commercial passengers (and their guides) saw firsthand a dose of how powerful Mother Nature can be, surviving a storm-induced...
Athlete Stories
Into the Land of Icelandic Waterfalls: Check the New RedBull Film “Jötunn”
We dare you to try and keep their names apart, but kayakers Aniol Serrasolses and Mikel Sarasola, along with photographers Aleix Salvat and David Nogales, ventured...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Breaking Down The Code: Inside Dagger’s New Creeker
Call it Mission Possible. Or the Mamba Phantom, which has the same initials. Credit Snowy Robertson and his design team at Dagger for breaking the...
Evergreen
Do They Really Make Kayaking Gear This Small? Watch This Vid
Apparently so. Northwest kayaker Paul Kuthe is raising his son Canyon, 7, and his friend’s daughter, Anne, 7, to becoming true kayaking kids, earning the...
Inflatables
Inside AIRE’s Outcast Sporting Gear (OSG)
Want whitewater-worthy beefiness with your fishing craft package? Look no further than AIRE’s sister company, Outcast, designed to offer just that, bringing the company’s...
Camping
An Icelandic Odyssey: Sea Kayaking Hornstrandir Nature Reserve
It’s my daughter who should’ve been the writer.
“Dad, look, there’s a chandelier of jellyfish down there!” she exclaimed. We’re on day four of a six-day...
Inflatables
Advanced Elements Launches New Packlite+ Packraft Series
Advanced Elements, a longtime maker of drop-stitch construction inflatable kayaks, has launched into the packraft market with its new Packlite+ Packraft Series. “What makes them...
Events
Bosnia to Host 2022 World Rafting Champs
COVID can’t cancel a rafting comp. That’s the word from the International Rafting Federation, which, after two years of obstacles and restrictions, announced that...
Canoeing
Oly Champs Descend On World Champs
Call it medal mania. All four Tokyo champions will look to create history this weekend when they attempt to become the first athletes to...
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Entering the World of Wood: A Review of Shade Tree’s Custom Bent Shaft Kayak Paddle
With my getting older I thought it was time to treat myself to a custom wood paddle design by...
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Skate Yak: The Movie!
Well, it's that time of year again in the Rockies when skate skiers head to the hills in the...
NRS Releases Brainwaves
Kayaking is all about fun, right? Not all the time. The newest film from NRS and Matt Devlin (@western_pix),...
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Entering the World of Wood: A Review of Shade Tree’s Custom Bent Shaft Kayak Paddle
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