Whitewater Rafting
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Canoeing
4 Top Rivers to Put on Your Canadian Bucket List This Season
Want to head to Canada, eh? Canadian River Expeditions, based in Whitehorse, Yukon, has a few classic recommendations for you, from tame to wild, all...
Paddling Industry News
Floaters Get New Boat-in Campground on the Colorado!
Break out the champagne. It's not often paddlers get a new section of river to float and camp on, especially in an increasingly crowded...
Whitewater Rafting
Grand Canyon Gets Massive Water Surge (40K CFS!)
Rafters and kayakers on the Grand Canyon in late April better hope they tied their boats up well at camp as federal operators of...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Idaho Rivers Getting Ready to Rage; Bruneau/Owyhee (285%!) Leading the Charge
A massive snowpack season has created a banner season in store for paddling Idaho rivers this summer. Snowpack levels range from about 110 percent of...
Destinations
Alabama’s Montgomery Whitewater Park to Open July 1-2
Get ready for the country’s third recirculating whitewater park. Montgomery Whitewater, an outdoor recreation and entertainment facility situated on the banks of the Alabama...
Whitewater Rafting
OARS Announces 2023 Western Whitewater Forecast
Thanks to record-breaking snowpack across the Western United States, outfitters are expecting an exceptional whitewater year, especially in California and Utah. The statewide snowpack in...
Paddling Industry News
Badfish Launches Raft Line
There’s a new player in the raft market, with gobs of experience on the water. Longtime SUP-maker Badfish, of good ol’ Salida, Colo., recently...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Beer Spills into Montana’s Clark Fork River!
Paddlers on Montana’s Clark Fork this spring might find a little welcome surprise bobbing in the eddies: beer.
A freight train carrying beer derailed along...
Paddling Life Exclusives
What the Cali Snowpack Spells for Paddling Season
Epic Snowpacksville: How the Runoff Year is Shaping Up in Cali
In early March, as part of California’s ongoing “atmospheric river” pummeling, the Kern River...
Paddling Life Exclusives
“They System is to Blame”: Landing a Coveted River Permit an Upstream Battle (By The Colorado Sun)
Want to float one of the West’s most popular rivers? You have roughly a 2% chance of getting a permit.
(By Tracy Ross/The Colorado Sun) Nearly...
Paddling Industry News
Front range Rafters Rejoice! DRE’s Raftopia March 27-April 1!
Down River is bringing back Raftopia and it's going to be bigger than ever! Raftopia will return as an in-person event this spring and...
Paddling Industry News
OARS Launches “Guide School” Vid Series
While it's still no substitute for getting out there and pushing rubber, a new video series from OARS called “Guide School” is designed to...
Paddling Life Exclusives
“It’s about the people at NRS now.” Bill Parks, Founder of Northwest River Supplies Passes Away (1934-2023)
Talk about a helluva great run, life and role in paddlesports. On March 5, 2023, Bill Parks, the founder and president of Northwest River...
Paddling Industry News
Get ‘Em on the Water: Friends of the Yampa Launches Youth River Camps
Wondering how to grow the sport? Take the lead of Colorado's Friends of the Yampa, whose burgeoning Youth River Camps help youth get out...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Political Paddling Recap: Former President Carter Tackles the Middle Fork
With former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in the news recently for entering into hospice care, where the 98-year-old is expected to spend his remaining...
Paddling Life Exclusives
MT Sobek Celebrates 50th Anniversary (Plus: A List of Sobek 1st D’s)
Celebrate your own first descents all you want. Unless you're Ben Stookesberry, you likely don't hold a torch to those compiled by rafting pioneer...
Destinations
Behind the Scenes with the founders of GoRafting and Far Out River Maps
Hasta luego, soggy paper river maps and huhlooo a new digital app alternative with the FarOut App from GoRafting, a maker of river maps...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Scenic Overdose Syndrome on Alaska’s Alsek River
“Stick to the feeders, not the drainers.”
The advice comes from Bones. The feeders gain water and the drainers splinter off, leaving you high and...
Paddling Life Exclusives
The Case of the Steamboat Sting, Dinosaur National Park, 1957
By Tom Martin (Modified from "Otis Marston: The Colorado River Historian," Volume 1, Book 4, available on Amazon Kindle)
Editor's note: To adequately tell this...
Paddling Life Exclusives
NRS Film Release: A River Out of Time
NRS Film Release: A River Out of Time
Just in time for the new year, NRS has released its newest film, “A River Out of...
Destinations
Power of the River Worldwide Broadcast Premiere Sunday, Jan. 8 (Plus Streaming News)
Himalayan River Adventure to Play Free on Rocky Mountain PBS and Stream Online
An adventure documentary filmed on Bhutan's wildest river is poised to release...
Paddling Life Exclusives
NRS Founder Bill Parks: “What I’ve Learned: Let the People Lead”
In His Own Words: NRS Founder Bill Parks — "What I’ve Learned: Let the People Lead"
"In the early 1970s, while teaching at the University...
Paddling Life Exclusives
NRS Celebrates 50th Anniversary: “We’re All Between Swims…” (Special PL Q&A with Mark Deming)
NRS Celebrates 50th Anniversary: “We’re All Between Swims…”
“We’re all between swims” reads the lead messaging for the marketing literature for NRS’s 50th anniversary.
“A lot...
Paddling Gear
The Ultimate Guide to How to Store Your Raft
Owning your own whitewater raft is an amazing experience that delivers the freedom to get on the river anytime you want.
What’s more, you...
Latest news
Tales from the Cripps: Episode 13: How to Become an Overnight Tubing Success with Rolf Kelly
Episode 13. How to Become an Overnight Tubing Success with Rolf Kelly
MAY 30, 2023 EPISODE 13 In this episode, Tales from...
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Tales from the Cripps: Episode 12. Around the Globe with Alex Nicks, Shoes Optional
Episode 12. Around the Globe with Alex Nicks, Shoes Optional
MAY 22, 2023 EPISODE 12 Alex Nicks may be one of the...
4 Top Rivers to Put on Your Canadian Bucket List This Season
Want to head to Canada, eh? Canadian River Expeditions, based in Whitehorse, Yukon, has a few classic recommendations for you,...
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4 Top Rivers to Put on Your Canadian Bucket List This Season
Want to head to Canada, eh? Canadian River Expeditions,...
Grand Canyon Gets Massive Water Surge (40K CFS!)
Rafters and kayakers on the Grand Canyon in late...
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