Up and coming Maryland-based paddler beat out paddling legend Tao Berman on his own turf April 12 to take first place in the Washington Canyon Creek Race.
Now in its 16th year, the event drew almost double the number of competitors expected and a huge crowd of spectators who scrambled up and down cliffs and [...]
After eight days rafting and kayaking, our multi-national team of scientists, conservationists and river enthusiasts returned from the last descent of the Great Bend of the Yangtze. Ending the trip was bitter sweet. The sweet: the expedition was a monumental success that combined some of the world’s most incredible whitewater and remarkable cultural [...]
The day Portland paddle maker Lee Bonfiglio closed up shop, folks lucky enough to own a Fluid paddle sighed, knowing that one of the best whitewater paddles ever made had become irreplaceable. After three years of abuse, I still haven’t managed to break mine, though it is missing a large chunk out of the blade. [...]
Nat Hong and Bob Barrett commute on Puget Sound by bike — water bike, that is — to their jobs in Bremerton and Steilacoom.
The drive would be 80 miles round trip. But with his water bike, the trip to work is just 12 miles — including one mile on the water.
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It took two years and hundreds of hours of negotiating, but we did it. Yesterday American Rivers and 25 other parties announced a landmark agreement to end decades of disputes over water in the Klamath Basin, and to chart a better future for the river and its fishing and farming communities.
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Two guys from down under are nine days into kayaking from Australia to New Zealand.
What a hectic night… the combination of 20kt winds and current running the oposite way have really made the seas stand up over night. We’ve had many a wave crash and run over the entire length of the cabin.
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In our fall 2006 and winter 2007 issues, we featured a two-part story of Tim Harvey and his epic adventure, traveling around the world emissions-free, his goal to promote awareness of global warming. Below is a short video montage of clips taken from Harvey’s upcoming film documenting the expedition. Read more at the expedition website, [...]
I’ve been testing out GoPro’s Digital Hero 3 and I gotta say…it takes a little getting used to to get great shots, but after that learning period, damn it’s awesome. The camera is itty bitty, about the size of half a Clif bar mushed into a square. (sorry for that analogy, I just couldn’t think [...]
Eddyflower.com, a paddling website, is hosting a new competition to benefit First Descents, an organization for young kayakers with cancer. It’s pretty cool—in a 30 day period, you and your teammates (5 max) paddle as many rivers as you can and log your vertical feet. Then they add it all up and the team with [...]
Lately I’ve been bombarded with a slew of awesome kayaking videos. The latest I’ve heard about, Light and Liquid, is being put out by New Beligium Brewery (Fat Tire beer, mmmm, yummy). Or their super cool marketing guy. Or both. It’s somewhat unclear. Anyway, he describes it as a kayak collage of movement and sound [...]