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Two Women About to Make Paddling History

Traveling by canoe from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Canada’s Hudson bay is a more than 2,000 mile journey. In 1930 Eric Sevareid and Walter Port made such a trip; later Sevareid would write a book Canoeing with the Cree (1935) chronicling the adventure. In 2005 two young men from St. Cloud followed in Sevareids’ wake to mark the 75th anniversary of the original. Now, two young women plan to leave their own mark on this historic route...
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Paddling Community Mourns Loss of Canadian Canoe Museum Founder Kirk Wipper

The Canadian canoe community lost one of its most ardent supporters March 18 with the death of Canadian Canoe Museum founder Kirk A.W. Wipper, who died at age 87...
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Colbys Purchase MTI Adventurewear

After managing MTI Adventurewear for the Takashina family for nearly a decade, paddlesport industry veterans Lili and Gordon Colby purchased the company from them in February...
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Putting Its Money Where Our River Mouths Are

Buy shoes, save rivers. That’s the message from Teva, which is putting its money where our rivers’ mouths are with the launch of its "Pair for a Foot" campaign on World Water Day (March 22), an initiative estimated to help protect over four million linear feet of global waterways this year alone...
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Rally HO!: The National River Rally set for Charleston SC June 3-6

For more than a decade The River Network has been holding the National River Rally to bring together activist from across the country (and planet). This year the rally is being held June 3-6 in Charleston South Carolina. Read on to learn about the weekend, the speakers, and of course– preserving our rivers…
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New River Dries Goes Off

It doesn’t run often, but when it does it goes big. This time, in early March, it careened in at more than 70,000 cfs, drawing hairboaters like Trent Thibodeaux, Sam Fulbright, Chris Wing, Pablo McCandless and Chris Gragtmans out of the watery woodwork to ply its epic waves. And its name, the New River Dries, is about as much of an oxymoron as you’ll find in the paddling world...
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Mark Kalch’s

We’ve climbed Mt. Everest. We’ve put a man on the moon. But nobody has ever attempted to make human powered descents of the longest rivers on each continent. Enter Mark Kalch and his “7 Rivers 7 Continents” project. Read more...
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AW Conducts Flow Survey for Yampa Basin

Okay, all you Colorado boaters. Since this one’s in Paddling Life’s own backyard, we’re asking any and everyone who’s ever paddled in our neck of the woods to help us out with American Whitewater’s flow study for the Yampa Basin. And, yes, it includes such local faves as Cross Mountain and Fish and Willow creeks....
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Idaho Rivers United Files Suit Against Forest Service over Clearwater, Lochsa rivers

In a waterborne version of David vs. Goliath, river group Idaho Rivers United has filed a lawsuit charging the U.S. Forest Service with abdicating their responsibility to protect the Wild & Scenic values of the Middle Fork Clearwater and Lochsa Rivers...
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Zimmerman Leaves Legacy

Legacy Paddlesports LLC announced today that Andy Zimmerman has decided to leave the company to pursue other interests....
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Silverback Swallowed

Sniff, sniff...Kayakers in Uganda's White Nile region joined in an Irish Wake hosted by outfitter Nile River Explorers as an era came to an end on perhaps the best play run in the world: on March 1, the Day 1 Section (Silverback) of the Nile was closed to river traffic through the main rapid of Silverback for an upcoming hydro project...
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Looking Back Upstream: Eight Clean Water Success Stories from 2010

With record snowfalls in the books already the river rats here at PL become feverish when thinking about the inevitable melts that come with the onset of spring. A few sunny days at the end of February only add to the anxiety. With that in mind, we’ve decided to take a look back and highlight the River Network’s Clean Water success stories from 2010…
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28th National Paddling Film Festival Wraps Up Feb. 25-26

Oscars, Schmoscars. This year marked the 28th birthday for the National Paddling Film Festival, which this go-around took over the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort Kentucky February 25-26. The festival is a showcase and competition for the best in paddlesports videos and images, with 25 clams getting show-goers in the door and a beer...
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Solo Catting Cotahuasi

For some people, paddling solo enhances everything about the sport, from its dangers to its rewards. Perhaps no one knows this better than British Columbia rafting guide Bruce Low, who recently returned from a solo cataraft mission down Peru’s Rio Cotahuasi, billed by many as the deepest canyon in the world. Read on for a PL Exclusive first-hand report (yes, he lived to tell the tale…)
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Para-Canoeing added to roster for 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio

When the Internation Paralympic Committee (IPC) met in Guangzhou, China last December they voted to usher in a new era in paralympic competition. Two more sports will be represented at the 2016 Summer Games: Para-Triathlon and Para-canoeing. 22 total sports are now represented at the Summer Paralympic games, but it could’ve been more…
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Obama Backs Rivers

It looks like we're not finished with Whitewater in the White House. Only this time around, instead of a scandal plaguing the Clinton administration, president Obama is putting it at the forefront of his concerns, listing river recreation as among the top ten priorities of a new federal action plan for reconnecting people with nature...
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2011 Whitewater Symposium Slated for Oct. 12-14 at Rock Island, TN

It's only fitting that whitewater's leading development event is coming to the back yard of its leading manufacturer and personality. Yep, that's right...the Eighth Annual Whitewater Symposium will be held Oct. 12–14 at Rock Island State Park near Sparta, TN, home waters for Jackson Kayak...
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Fluid Kayaks Donates 25K In Memory of Coetzee

On December 7th Hendri Coetzee was tragically killed in a crocodile attack on the Lukuga river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fluid Kayaks has stepped forward with a twenty-five thousand dollar donation to non-profit American Whitewater made in Hendri’s memory…
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One More Time…With Feeling

As if Australia wasn’t enough. Now Freya Hoffmeister, the “Woman in Black,” is at it again, this time setting off in September 2011 to become the first person to sea kayak the entire coast line of South America.
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Doba Does It! Madman Completes Solo Transatlantic Kayak Crossing

What took the Mayflower just over 66 days took Polish paddler Aleksander Doba 103, but he did it...successfully paddling solo across the Atlantic and arriving on land -- beautiful, gorgeous land -- on Feb. 3, 2011, in the Brazilian fishing village of Acarau...
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Pack-rafting Tasmania’s Franklin River

Think diminutive, 4-lb. pack-rafts aren’t suitable for multi-day wilderness Class V? Bill Hatcher, and Roman and Rome Dial beg to differ, recently returning from a five-day Class V self-support pack-raft trip down Tasmania’s Franklin River ( a trip us here at PL once bagged in our kayaks)...
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Zoar Outdoor Walks to Work, Drops 880 lbs!

Zoar Outdoor has been “The Northeast’s Leader in Outdoor Adventure” since 1989. More recently however, Zoar has been applauded for becoming a leader in the green movement as well...
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Crossing the Pond: A. Doba attempts solo transatlantic kayak crossing

Nobody ever said that crossing the Atlantic by boat was easy. It took the Mayflower just over 66 days to complete that historic voyage. So when Aleksansder Doba set off October 21 to try and paddle 3,300-km across the Atlantic, he estimated the solo voyage would take him three months to complete...
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It’s Permit Time

It's permit season. So get your act together and send in your applications for your favorite river trip. Remember: if you don’t play the game--or aren't a cook or good looking--you won’t get invited along. Here's all the info you need...
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Calhoun Takes Nat’l Wildwater Champs at Zoar Outdoor Center

Beijing? Who needs it...While slalom and sprint paddlers duke it out at the Beijing Olympics in August, their downriver counterparts did so in the lesser-known sport of wildwater racing—perhaps one of paddling’s truest tests of all-around ability-- August 1-3, 2008 on Charlemont, Mass.’s Deerfield River at the USA Wildwater National Championships hosted by the Zoar Outdoor Center...
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Putting Its Money Where Our River Mouths Are

Buy shoes, save rivers. That’s the message from Teva, which is putting its money where our rivers’ mouths are with the launch of its "Pair for a Foot" campaign on World Water Day (March 22), an initiative estimated to help protect over four million linear feet of global waterways this year alone...
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Riding the Spike

Every sport has its Holy Grail, that pinnacle of perfect conditions. For surfers, it’s catching that big swell. For skiers and snowboarders, it’s that surprise 26-inch powder day. For fly-fishers, it’s perhaps that evasive cicada hatch, when any piece of foam lands a lunker. For kayakers worth their salt, it’s catching your local river at peak flood, when the river is at its most raging...
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