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The Best All-Around Accessories for Your Summer Adventures
Summer 2021 is shaping up to be a big one. But before the adventures are in full swing, you need to pick up all...
Canoeing
Catching Up With Author Natalie Warren on Her Book, “Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
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Destinations
New Film from NRS Fishing: A Resilient Paradise: Florida Keys
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Costa Rica Flashback: A Recap of an Epic Down the Patria
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Destinations
Top 5 Whitewater Rafting Day Trips
Got some pent-up pandemic jones to go rafting? You're not alone. Try one of the following five top rafting day trips in the country... Chattooga...
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Win a Lost Travel Adventure for Two Valued Up To $775!
After you've entered to win a Lost Travel Adventure for Two, check out these other packraft and camp essentials. Lost Travel Adventures
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Paddling Industry News
Rafting Community Loses a Legend with the Passing of Rafael Gallo
The international rafting community lost one of its biggest stalwarts and promoters with the passing Tuesday, March 23, of Rafael Gallo, founder of Costa...
Paddling Industry News
End of an Era: Famed Costa Rican Rafting Outfitter Rios Tropicales Closes Down
The pandemic has hit home for river runners—especially those who love paddling Costa Rica’s beloved Pacuare River. Ríos Tropicales, a pioneer on the Pacuare and...
Destinations
New River Gorge To Become National Park
Get ready to raft in a new national park. West Virginia’s New River Gorge is set to become the nation’s newest national park, thanks to...
Canoeing
How One California Outfitter Has Weathered 4 Fires (and now COVID)
For river outfitter Russian River Adventures, located in the heart of Sonoma Valley wine country in Healdsburg, Calif., adversity has come with the territory...
Canoeing
Nation’s Top River Sojourns
To "sojourn" is "to dwell in a place temporarily." If you throw in the word "river" beforehand, and then treat sojourn as a noun,...
Canoeing
Freakin’ Fluminkohala! Paddling the Big Island’s Irie Irrigation Ditch
While Hawaii’s Big Island might be known for its surf, snorkeling and lava flows, Class I paddlers also have an option in the 112-year-old...
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 —...
Destinations
Group Fights to Save Ecuador’s Newest Whitewater Gem: El Rio Piatua
Now, it's getting downright indigenous. In November, a coalition of civil society organizations and law professors submitted an amicus brief to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court calling...
Travel
Watch Epic Russian Rafting Carnage on the Yurunkash River
Think rafting promotes social distancing? Not for these Russians, simultaneously caught in a keeper hydraulic on the Yurunkash river in the former Soviet Union. See the...
Destinations
Small World Adventures Cancels Ecuador Season Due to Pandemic
Now it’s getting personal for paddlers. Due to the global pandemic Small World Adventures is cancelling its Ecuador season of whitewater kayaking. In a letter to...
Destinations
New Wild and Scenic Rivers Bill Introduced for Montana
Forget Kevin Costner and his new watch-me-cowboy "Yellowstone" series. There's bigger news for Montana: the state might soon be getting more Wild & Scenic...
Stand Up Paddle Boarding
Why SUP Yoga Should be Your Newest Hobby
SUP Yoga isn't just a trendy class to take on vacation.
Here we’ll divulge how and why SUP yoga is enlightening, fun and great...
Destinations
Baffin or Bust: An Alpacka Packraft Paddle and Climb Expedition
Where can an Alpacka packraft take you, you ask? How about to Baffin Island, for a paddling and climbing expedition? Read on for just...
Travel
PL Exclusive: Video Interview with Ben Stookesberry!
Ben Stookesberry talks recovering from an injury, The Dynamic of Expedition Kayaking, the state of whitewater kayaking today.
Watch interview here: Adventure kayaking pioneer Ben Stookesberry,...
Destinations
The Down-low on Creeking the Dominican Republic
By Adam Goshorn In the blue waters of the Caribbean, the island of Hispaniola rises from the sea to an astounding 10,164 feet atop...
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Gauley During COVID: A Personal Account
Essay By Darcy Gaechter It didn't feel like there was a global pandemic raging as we pulled into the Tail Waters launch site -- the...
Canoeing
National Rivers Project Lists National Wildlife Refuge Paddling Trails
Want to paddle one of the country’s 18 national wildlife refuges and 103 official water trails?
It’s easier than ever now, thanks to the National...
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,...
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Kokatat Sold
After 50 years under the direction and ownership of its founder, Steve O’Meara, Kokatat has been purchased by the company’s Director of...
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Flash Flood Kills Rafter in Grand Canyon
A 29-year-old woman was found dead and others were injured following a flash flood July 14 in Grand Canyon National...
Tokyo Sneak Peak: The Top 5 Women Slalom Kayakers to Keep an Eye On
From oldest to youngest, the inside skinny on the top female slalom paddlers at this year’s Olympics. Spain’s Maialen Chourraut is the...
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Catching Up With Author Natalie Warren on Her Book, “Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
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