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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...

Zimmerman Leaves Legacy

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

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

Jackson Gets All Techy

If we can't keep up with the Jackson clan surfing, how the check are we supposed to now while surfing the web? Yep...his EJness is getting all techy on that front, too, becoming the first kayak manufacturer to launch an iPhone application as part of its social outreach efforts...

Confluence Buys Bomber Gear

Kayak surfers in Steamboat Springs, Colo., might have a little more time on their downtown play waves now. Bomber Gear founder Rick Franken and his 8-year-old son, Kai, won’t be surfing them at all hours anymore, as the paddlesports apparel company was recently sold to Confluence Watersports...

PL Exclusive Q&A with USACK ED Joe Jacobi

When Joe Jacobi won the gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with C-2 partner Scott Strausbaugh, it ushered in a new era fro slalom paddling in the U.S. Twice the stop-gap when USACK’s executive directors have stepped down – the first after Terry Kent left in 2000, and again last year after David Yarborough left office – now he’s made the move from interim to full-time executive director of the sport’s governing body and is reaching for gold yet again. PL catches up with him to see how he’s getting the organization stroking in the right direction...

Death on the Congo; Stookesberry Team Member, Hendri Coetzee, Killed by Croc

It was supposed to be a relatively routine exploratory expedition for Eddie Bauer First Ascent expedition members Ben Stookesberry, Chris Korbulic and South African kayak guide Hendri Coetzee down the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Lukuga River. But on Dec. 7, tragedy struck as Coetzee, who was leading Stookesberry and Korbulic through the DRC, was pulled from his kayak on the Lukuga River by a crocodile and is presumed dead....

Another One Bites the Dust

Just a scant few months after the first year in eons without a September TAPS West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium event, three more paddlesports events north of the border are going by the wayside. Scott MacGregor, publisher of Rapid Media, recently announced that the company will no longer produce Palmer Fest, the National Sea Kayak Symposium or the Canadian Canoe Symposium...

Paddler Replaced by Rapid

No, that's not a typo. You can finally play Taps for Paddler, the long-standing member benefit magazine for the American Canoe Association. At it November board meeting, the ACA announced that it will “officially” suspend publishing Paddler and will have Canada’s Rapid Media, spearheaded by Scott MacGregor, satisfy its member magazine benefits...

Fluid Kayaks Expands US Presence, Seeks Reps

Fluid Kayaks is expanding in the USA, and searching for reps.

Seeking Nominations for Swiftwater Rescue Award

The Higgins & Langley Award for Swiftwater Rescue is seeking nominations for 2011 rescues. If you were involved in, witnessed, or even heard tell of a great save on the rivers this past season, consider nominating the rescuers for the premier award in swiftwater rescue.

Dawson Nabs Green Race Crown and Brings Home The Glass

What a creek racing year for Mike Dawson. Capping off victories at the Paddling Life Invitational, Teva Games’ Homestake Race and Adidas Sickline Championships, New Zealand’s Mike Dawson ended the season with another feather in his helmet -- and stained glass trophy for his Down Under windowsill: the coveted Green Race title.

Chaco Debuts ToeCoop, PedShed; Awards Kayak Instructor Accolades

Want stylish slip-on sandal comfort off the water as well as on? Slide into a pair of Chaco ToeCoops or PedSheds, slip-ons that will see you to your post-paddle PBR and nacho plate in style. Plus, the company honors a kayak instructor from Bainbridge Island, Wash...

A Song from the Grand

So PL just got off the Grand Canyon, whose experimental September flows of 8,000 cfs made it ideal for everything from surfing and sucking suds to gobbling gourmet cuisine from PL partner Ceiba Adventures. To shine some light on the re-entry-to-civilization problems those emerging from the Big Ditch deal with, following are a couple of musical ditties thrown together by participant Dana Birke from Boulder -- just in time for an abrupt return to an early Colorado winter...

Cali Burn Fest

A mass start Class V downriver race followed by a beer slalom past the finish line...it can only mean one thing: the sixth annual BurnFest on the Trinity River’s Burnt Ranch Gorge in California...

Trio Knocks off Stikine in One Day

Marking only the second time the feat has ever been done, Erik Boomer, Jeff West and Todd Wells recently kayaked the entire 60-mile-long Grand Canyon of the Stikine in a single, adrenaline-filled day. They're the first to do it since Tommy Hilleke, Dan DelaVergne, John Grace and Toby MacDermott made their unheralded single-day Stikine run in 2005. PL checks in...

Kiwi Connection: Sutton wins 2010 adidas Sickline Crown

For the fourth consecutive time the adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championship took place in Austria’s Ötztal valley, luring 150 of the world’s best kayakers from 26 countries to the Tyrol region to compete on the legendary Class V Wellerbrücke rapids. And a Kiwi took the crown. PL checks in...

Feather Fest Tests Livers and Lines

Want a classic feather in your Class V hat? Enter the downriver race at California’s Feather Festival on the North Fork of the Feather. This year’s event drew its largest turn-out ever, and even included an event called the Hangover-X...

Rivers Orgs Clean-up with Conservation Alliance Grants

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. That's how a few river conservation organizations are feeling after the Conservation Alliance awarded grants totaling $500,000 to 17 conservation throughout North America, many of whom are working to protect our waterways. PL checks in...

Third Time’s a Charm?

A group of Class V kayakers is certainly hoping so as they follow the wake of two other failed expeditions by attempting the first-ever complete descent of the last major un-run tributary of the Amazon River, the Pongo De Aguirre Gorge on Peru's Rio Huallaga...

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Fedarko, Author of “The Emerald Mile,” Releases New Grand Book: “A Walk in the Park”

Fan of "The Emerald Mile"? Then you’ll love this latest release by its river-running and not-afraid-to-hike-a-canyon author, Kevin Fedarko,...
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Paddlesports Trade Coalition Announces Colab Event in Okla. City Sept. 3-6

PTC Colab at Riversport OKC September 3-6, 2024. We're not using the acronym yet on first reference because it's still...

Wanna’ Buy a Recirculating Whitewater Park? WISP For Sale/Minimum Bid $2 Million

Want to own your own whitewater park? The country's first recirculating whitewater park, McHenry, Md.'s Adventure Sports Center International,...

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Wanna’ Buy a Recirculating Whitewater Park? WISP For Sale/Minimum Bid $2 Million

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Landmark decision reached to protect Croatia’s Mrežnica and Tounjčica Rivers

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