Whitewater Kayaking
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Athlete Stories
Break Out the Popcorn: HBO/TGR “Edge of the Earth” Series Debuts
Get ready to be on the edge of your seat for "Edge of the Earth," a new HBO and Teton Gravity Research documentary that...
Events
2022 Golden Rodeo Down River Race Results
2022 Golden Rodeo Down River Race On Wednesday, June 29th, the Colorado Whitewater Association hosted a spectacular down river race in the heart of Golden,...
Athlete Stories
New King & Queen of North Fork Champs: Hayden Voorhees, Jenn Chrimes Take Crowns
There’s a new King and Queen of the North Fork Championships, Idaho’s prestigious Class V kayak race on the state’s crown jewel North Fork...
Whitewater Kayaking
Floods Bring Epic, Record Flows to WYO, MT; Paddlers Chime In
Big water boaters in southern Montana and northern Wyoming were either licking their chops or hiding their boating gear in fear on June 13...
Destinations
Kayaking Ecuador: 7 Class IV Jungle Rivers in 7 Days
I’ve learned a new word in Spanish: “Nudillos.” It means “knuckles,” and that’s exactly what the sloth is extending us, or at least three...
Athlete Stories
Jackson Goes 3-for-3: Freestyle Win Caps Hattrick at GoPro Games: Next Stop, North Fork Champs
While most other mono-discipline competitors are either arriving in Banks, ID, early to train for the high-water North Fork Championships June 17-18, or heading...
Athlete Stories
Double Win for Dane Jackson at GoPro Games
Wednesday's Steep Creek Championship in Colorado saw some equally steep competition but, in what has increasingly become as no surprise, Dane Jackson won the...
Paddling Gear
Exclusive PL Interview with Clay Wright about the Jackson Rockstar V
Paddling Life caught a few minutes with Clay Wright, of Jackson Kayaks, while he was in Steamboat Springs CO. for the 2022 Yampa River...
Events
Yampa River Festival 2022 – PL Catches up with Clay Wright of Jackson Kayaks
Paddling Life's Eugene Buchanan catches up with Clay Wright of Jackson Kayaks at the 2022 Yampa River Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO. Clay just finished...
Athlete Stories
Kayaking Community Mourns Death of Idaho, Surf Kayak Legend Jim Grossman
Idaho, and the paddling community, lost one of its most iconic whitewater kayakers with the death of Jim Grossman, 56, of Sun Valley, in...
Paddling Industry News
Can Whitewater be Distilled in a Book? A New Coffee Table Book Thinks So
Whitewater is coming to your coffee table with the publication of, well, "Whitewater," a book about you know what. The book is published by YETI,...
Accessories
Staying Tight: Paddling Life Spray Skirt Review—Seals Pro Rand
Sure, boats, paddles, apparel and PFDs are important and all, but the one piece of gear holding it all together, and keeping you part...
Paddles
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 Shade Tree Paddles. The flex in...
Multi-Sport
Skate Yak: The Movie!
Well, it's that time of year again in the Rockies when skate skiers head to the hills in the early morning to ski on...
Athlete Stories
NRS Releases Brainwaves
Kayaking is all about fun, right? Not all the time. The newest film from NRS and Matt Devlin (@western_pix), Brainwaves, is a story about...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Dire Straits for Glen Canyon Dam; Lodore/Deso to See Higher Flows from Flaming Gorge Dam Releases
Boaters on the Grand this year can expect lower water. And those on stretches above Lake Powell, especially on the Green River in canyons...
Destinations
Breaking News: Ocoee Whitewater Center Burns to Ground
Site of the 1996 Summer Olympics—and its Olympic flame—the Ocoee Whitewater Center, located along the banks of the Upper Ocoee in Ducktown, TN, was engulfed...
Athlete Stories
Werner Paddles Releases “We Are Werner” Vid
We Are Werner! That’s the theme song being echoed by one of the country’s top paddle makers, as Werner unveils its We Are Werner...
Paddling Industry News
RIVERSPORT Whitewater Center in OKC Brings Championship Lineup to the U.S.
Oklahoma City poured its heart - and $45 million - into a world-class, man-made whitewater center, one of the few of its caliber worldwide. This year, that investment is paying off for OKC in a new way with an invitation from the International Canoe Federation to host a number of championship water sport events building up to the 2028 Olympic Games.
Destinations
Bird’s-eye View of the “New” Barrel Springs on the Colorado
While 2020’s Grizzly Creek fire wreaked havoc on the Colorado River’s Glenwood Canyon outside of Glenwood Springs, CO, the resulting mudslides also did the...
Whitewater Kayaking
Watch Nouria Newman Land a World Record Drop in New Documentary, Wild Waters
French kayaker Nouria Newman breaks the record for the first female descent of a waterfall over 100 feet, documented in the new Red Bull film Wild Waters on her experience and momentum leading up to the run.
Athlete Stories
Special Excerpt/NRS Duct Tape Diaries: 10 Ways to Die on the Blue Nile River
“Welcome to Africa my river people. You must begin to exercise your flexibility in all ways: mentally, physically and spiritually. When we push off...
Destinations
River Surf Town USA? Glenwood Wins Water Rights for 3 New WW Parks on Colorado
It already has the uber-sweet, river-wide Glenwood wave, which has proven a mainstay for river surfers (even if the eddy service is a tad...
Athlete Stories
Little White Salmon Kicks Off Extreme Race Season; Wells Wins for Men, Newman for Women
The year’s extreme kayak race season kicked off with a bang on Washington’s Little White Salmon River on March 26, with boaters crawling out...
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Break Out the Popcorn: HBO/TGR “Edge of the Earth” Series Debuts
Get ready to be on the edge of your seat for "Edge of the Earth," a new HBO and...
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2022 Golden Rodeo Down River Race Results
2022 Golden Rodeo Down River Race On Wednesday, June 29th, the Colorado Whitewater Association hosted a spectacular down river race...
New King & Queen of North Fork Champs: Hayden Voorhees, Jenn Chrimes Take Crowns
There’s a new King and Queen of the North Fork Championships, Idaho’s prestigious Class V kayak race on the...
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Break Out the Popcorn: HBO/TGR “Edge of the Earth” Series Debuts
Get ready to be on the edge of your...
New King & Queen of North Fork Champs: Hayden Voorhees, Jenn Chrimes Take Crowns
There’s a new King and Queen of the North...
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Turk, Boomer Complete Ellesmere Circumnavigation
Paddling into Grise Bay on Aug. 19, once-strangers Erik Boomer and Jon Turk managed to travel 1,485 miles in 104 days, skiing on ice, jumping from flow to flow on moving pack ice and finally paddling through ice-choked water to complete the first-ever circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island. PL checks in with the ragged, haggard tandem...