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Destinations

Paddlesport Industry Coalition Endorses Paddlesport Retailer Show for Madison, WI, Aug 29-Sept 1

Call it a blow to Outdoor Retailer and a boon for paddlesport retailers. A coalition of leading paddlesports manufacturers recently endorsed the newly formed Paddlesports Retailer as the industry’s official tradeshow, debuting Aug. 29 – Sept. 1, 2017, in Madison, Wisconsin...
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Canoeing

Climbing Higher, Paddling Farther: NOLS Unveils New Look, Website

With paddling, including sea kayaking, canoeing and river running, continuing to play a major part in its curriculum, award-winning outdoor leadership school NOLS is heading into the New Year with a new look and rebranding campaign, fresh off its 50th anniversary...
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Destinations

Down River Equip Moves Doors After 35 Years

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…
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Destinations

12 Days of Xmas, American Whitewater-style

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…)
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Destinations

The Ocoee Dam: From War Machine to World-Class Whitewater

When Ocoee Dam No. 3 was built to help meet energy needs during wartime, it was thought there would be little or no recreational interest in the project. Flash forward fifty years, and you get an Olympic whitewater course and a world-class tourist destination. The first in a series of paddling-related stories from TVA...
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Paddling Industry News

World Raft Champs Wrap-up from Dubai!

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.
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Canoeing

OR Moves Tradeshow Dates to Early June in 2018: Will It Affect Paddlesports? Paddling Co’s Big and Small Chime In

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…
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Canoeing

New Pumpkin Paddle Record Set

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
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Destinations

New River Map Highlights Rivers, Streams in U.S.

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...
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Destinations

RiverBlue Documentary Touts River Preservation While Taking Aim at Global Fashion Industry

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!)...
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Canoeing

Maine Gets New National Monument (With Mucho Paddling)

Fans of rafting and kayaking Maine’s Penobscot River will now be doing so in a new national park. Yep…on Aug. 24, in conjunction with August 25th’s National Park Service centennial, President Barack Obama signed a law creating the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.
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Destinations

Good Gauley! Gauley Season is Here, Despite Earlier Flooding

Earlier this summer, West Virginia's Gauley and Meadow River watersheds were flooded by heavy rains, with the Gauley setting a new flow record and nearly every boat launch and take-out damaged, but that hasnn't dampened spirits for the upcoming Gauley Fest Set. 15-18...
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Sea Kayaking

Don’t Miss Nantahala Outdoor Center’s Fall Line-Up

If you’ve spent time in the Southeast you know Fall brings NOC’s most popular events and a range of outdoor activities with a backdrop of brilliant mountain foliage.
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Canoeing

Innova Up and Running With Euro Manufacturer Gumotex

With Innova Kayak founder Tim Rosenhan’s passing in late 2015, the company recently announced that the reins will be handed over to longtime European Innova manufacturer Gumotex. We caught up with Innova cofounder Paul Neutz for his take on the brand and its transition…
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Destinations

Not Fair: Boise Wave Gets Accolades

Come on…does a state that already has perhaps the country's best whitewater really need the best play wave, too? That's the findings, as Boise’s play wave recently earned kudos as among the nation’s best…for surfers and kayakers....
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Sea Kayaking

Will Whitewater Parks Come Under Future Fire For Brain-Eating Amoeba Death?

The U.S. National Whitewater Center's water-based operations remained closed this week due to the fact that an 18-year-old contracted Naegleria fowleri amoeba after visiting the Center, and later died.
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Destinations

Pop Quiz! How Well Do You Know the Green River?

Sheri Griffith Expeditions wants to know how well you know the Green River? On a recent email blast, it sent its customers 10 photos to ID on the iconic river corridor. Read on to see how you fare, be it a wily John Wesley Powell or Green River rookie…
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Destinations

New England Nirvana: 5 Top Paddles Near Zoar Outdoor Center

Want to paddle the famed Northeast? Set your sights on the waterways around the Zoar Outdoor Center, which serves up some of New England’s finest floating, whether you’re rafting, stand-up paddleboarding or kayaking…
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Paddling Industry News

Packraft/Climbing Team Combo Wins Gore-tex Shipton Tilman Grant

Gore-Tex's Shipton-Tilman Grant has long awarded climbers, and a handful of paddlers, funds for their world-wide adventures. This year a team of climbers armed with packrafts and headed to Alaska will be part of that esteemed class...
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Stand Up Paddle Boarding

5Point Adventure Film Festival Celebrates Grand Canyon

In case you missed it: This four-day event showcases the community of Carbondale, Colorado, united with the entire outdoor community, while screening world-class adventure films that will inspire you all year.
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Destinations

Small World Adventures Re-purchased by Beveridge , Gaetcher

Call it a harmonious convergence. Like waterways re-joining around an island, former Small World Adventures employee/co-owners Don Beveridge and Darcy Gaetcher, along with new co-owner and former guide and Liam Kirkham, have been reunited with the Ecuador kayak outfitter, taking over ownership in this April...
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Stand Up Paddle Boarding

Stroke, stroke, stroke: Rowing 50 Days From Yampa Headwaters to Lake Powell

Talk about a journey from your doorstep. Starting just a mile from his front door, Jacob McCoola spent nearly 50 straight days last spring and summer rowing his raft from downtown Steamboat Springs, Colo., to Hite Marina on Lake Powell, a distance of nearly 600 miles. While “stroke, stroke, stroke” became a mantra, he didn’t have to listen to it echo off the canyon walls solo; different friends joined him along the way.
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Canoeing

New Canyonlands RiverMap Released

Southwestern river runners, rejoice! The venerable Tom Martin has made navigating the region’s myriad waterways easier than ever with the release (finally!) of the new quintessential Canyonlands RiverMap…
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Canoeing

American Rivers Releases Annual 10 Most Endangered Rivers List

American Rivers released its annual list of the nation’s 10 Most Endangered Rivers, highlighting U.S. river systems threatened by drought, mismanagement, pollution and more. Who heads up this year’s nefarious title? The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Basin and San Joaquin River...
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Ocoee River Sees Historic Flooding

Historic Flooding Hits Ocoee River Region, Shattering Water-Level Record It's not just the desert Southwest of the Rockies getting record...
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