Sea Kayaking

If you’re a Front Range floater looking to get some gear from longtime retailer Down River Equipment, take note that they’re now in a new location after 35 years…

What all gear did we get our hands on this year at the Paddling Life offices? Read on for schwag we put through its paces paddling, aprèsing and all places in between.

Sorry fish, surviving just got a tad tougher. Anglers: Put this on your kayak fishing radar: Wilderness Systems just announced the release of its newest fish-slaying machine, the tri-powered Radar 135 and Radar 115 kayak, leaving a wake by paddle, pedal or electric motor…

Forget your partridges in pear trees and little drummers drumming. For all-star river conservation organization American Rivers, it was a year of 12 victories. Read on for the group’s successes (and take some of that Christmas money from Aunt Judy to join…)

Who's the best kayak angler in the world? If the results of the sixth annual Hobie Fishing World Championship, sponsored by Rhino-Rack™ and Hobie Cat®, are any indication, it's Steve Lessard, who claimed the crown for the second time...

In 1976, 16 teenage boys reenacted the Sieur de La Salle’s historic canoe odyssey to the Gulf of Mexico in 1681-82, living much as the 17th century voyageurs had while traveling 3,300 miles in six replica canoes built by canoe historian Ralph Frese. They completed their quest on the same day in April that La Salle declared America French, from the Appalachians to the Rockies and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, and called it Louisiana. This August, many of those same boys, now in their late fifties, gathered near the northern edge of their portage across metro Toronto to mark the 40th anniversary of their amazing feat….and their full story is now told for the first time in Hard Rivers: The Untold Saga of La Salle: Expedition II (River Grove Books), a new book written by Craig P. Howard..

While everyone else was digesting turkey and trimmings this past weekend, some of the world’s best kayakers descended on the world's newest artificial whitewater course at the Vector Wero Whitewater Park in South Auckland, New Zealand, which hosted one of the world's richest kayaking events in the $60,000 WhitewaterXL New Zealand Invitational. Read on for full results and the low-down…

My, how the currents change. With Outdoor Retailer announcing a shift in its Summer market tradeshow dates to early June by 2018, outdoor industry veterans Sutton Bacon and Darren Bush have formed a new tradeshow, Paddlesports Retailer, to service the specific needs of the paddlesports industry...

Holy awesome reason to upgrade your paddling apparel, batman! On Black Friday, November 25, Patagonia gave 100 percent -- yes, 100 percent -- of global sales from its retail stores and Patagonia.com to support grassroots environmental organizations. And the total haul topped a whopping $10 million!

Want sweet schwag (and to support a great paddling trail at the same time?) Win outdoor gear in the Northern Forest Canoe Trail’s 12th Annual Online Auction. The event is live now and until December 1, 2016, and is the ideal place to get paddling and camping gear in time for the holidays. Proceeds support the nonprofit’s mission to maintain and protect access to the longest inland water trail in the nation....

The first wave of international paddlers have arrived in New Zealand ahead of next week’s Whitewater XL, eager to get the jump on the deluge of rivals expected to compete on the new Vector Wero Whitewater Park in Auckland, in the next few days...bring it on, they all say.

In honor of Veterans Day, Wilderness Systems has upped its commitment to the nonprofit organization, Heroes on the Water, debuting a new video telling the story of 19-year military policeman, Jason Austin, who was injured in an IED explosion. Suffering from post traumatic stress, a kayak fishing excursion forever changed his life. Read on for his story and video...

Dubai might have more sand dunes than standing waves, that didn’t stop the International Rafting Federation from staging its 2016 R4 World Rafting Championships on the man-made whitewater course at the five-year-old Wadi Adventure Center November 2-5.

Like rains and snowmelt coming at different times each year, paddlesport manufacturers and retailers are now dealing with different timeframes for the industry’s biggest tradeshow. On Nov. 8, Outdoor Retailer and Grassroots Outdoor Alliance announced they are shifting the outdoor tradeshow season schedule, with Outdoor Retailer, starting in 2018, moving its Summer Market tradeshow to June 11-14 (Monday-Thursday) in Salt Lake City…

Waterfalls, schmaterfalls. Palouse Falls kayaker Tyler Bradt recently set his sights on an even bigger body of water, sailing 3,700 nautical miles from Cape Town, South Africa, to Brazil with two other homies aboard his 42-foot Wizard’s Eye sailboat. Click here for vid...

Anyone who's ever kayaked knows how fun it is to free fall off a drop. So watch as these indoor skydivers take it to new heights, hopping in a whitewater kayak at VossVind - Norway's first and largest wind tunnel....

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

So it looks like an Etch-a-Sketch gone schitzo. But a new map shows our country’s complex network of rivers and streams in full color lay-out...

So EJ is grandfather. In taking a trip down memory lane, he recently posted a story published in the LA Times called “Chasing a Dream and a River,” chronicling his time with wife, Kristine, and kids Emily and Dane (along with their Dalmatians, Pebbles and Target) moved into an RV and traveled the country for eight years hitting the river circuit. Read on for the full story and quips from his EJness about the journey…

Like those trendy designer jeans you slip into after the day's paddle and boogie down in on the late-night dance floor? A new documentary raises awareness of the toll the fashion industry takes on the world's rivers (read on to view trailer!)...

With only a year in age separating them, Spain's Aniol Serrasolses, 25, and Great BRitain's Sandra Hyslop, 26, shoed that the mid-20s rule in this year's adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championships in Austria’s Ötztal valley...

Want to know what it’s like to kayak the Grand Canyon without being able to see it? Pre-order Erik Weihenmayer’s No Barriers, a new book giving a whole new meaning to running something blind…

In the Spirit category of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2016, held in Chicago on Sept. 28, a shot taken by Dean Truml of a group of kayakers tending an injured comrade landed on the podium…

Call it a stand-up showing, leading to a stand-up repeat. That's the storyline from the 2016 Pacific Paddle Games (presented by Salt Life) at Doheny Beach, where Connor Baxter and Candice Appleby who were crowned overall champions for the second year in a row – each taking home a cool $8,000...