Brush Creek Race: Wild & Free Tour by nicktroutman | May 16, 2017 | Canada, Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesSo fired up to finally make it down to Kernville for the Kern River Festival and Brush Creek Race. It was a blast hanging out with everyone, enjoying perfect weather and high water, and awesome time setting new course records on Brush Creek. Thanks Evan Moore for...
Wild & Free Tour: Outlet Falls by nicktroutman | May 11, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Creeking, JK Media, Media, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesHanging out in the Pacific North West, which has been getting slammed with one of the wettest springs in history, finding whitewater is not a problem. Outlet Falls has been on my radar for a while, a gorgeous waterfall that I have wanted to run since I first saw it in...
Video – The Devils River – Worth the Wait by Drew Ross | May 9, 2017 | Fishing, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, VideoAfter 2 years of searching for anyone to float the Devils River with me and getting shut down. I asked an acquaintance from Facebook who was having the same issue. Last week, I met him and two other guys for the first time outside Del Rio, TX. While I...
Helicopter Kayaking by dianegaydos | May 7, 2017 | Creeking, Karma, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesMy favorite part of my husband and my honeymoon trip to New Zealand was the helicopter kayaking. Well, that and the pie shops! New Zealand is a beautiful country full of dense wilderness. While there are certainly many kayaking runs that are roadside, there are many...
A Year of Awesome Opportunities by Emily Jackson | May 6, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Family Zone, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesA Year of Awesome Opportunities! Today I am writing from the Sequoia National Forest- we are parked at the take out of Brush Creek. A Creek I ran 12 years ago but not since! My husband Nick and I have two kids and two dogs packed into my Sprinter RV, and a trailer...
Honeymooning in Style by dianegaydos | May 4, 2017 | Creeking, Karma, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesWhere do you honeymoon when both people in the relationship are whitewater kayakers? New Zealand! My husband and I have had New Zealand on our travel bucket list for quite some time, and our honeymoon seemed like the perfect time to take advantage of it A year and a...
Antix down the Little White: Wild & Free Tour by nicktroutman | May 3, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesWe finally made it to the snow filled west coast for some amazing paddling in White Salmon, WA. Rafa Ortiz and myself took our new Antix’s down the L’Dub for some fun times, a ton of squirts, splats and touch of shenanigans out on the river. Keep the good...
Earth Day 2017 by Herschel Finch | Apr 27, 2017 | Featured Post, Fishing, Trip Reports, TripsThis has been one of the craziest Springs I can remember in a long time for me. Lots of life-altering events, both small and large. And although we’re supposed to roll with the punches and we’ve all heard that old saying “that which doesn’t kill you makes you...
Red Bell Black Snakes, Red Back Spiders and Gale force winds by Claire OHara | Apr 22, 2017 | Trip Reports, Trips, WhitewaterAustralia is stunning and has so many different types of landscapes and areas to explore. For the last few years I have wondered what the outdoor industry in Australia is like and this year I got the chance to find out. My good friend Josh Singleton put me in touch...
Truck Life Tour Episode 4: Cheoah and Nantahala Outdoor Centre. by sethashworth | Apr 18, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Media, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesTime spent in the Columbus whitewater park in Georgia, was super enjoyable but the weekend brought a release of a so called “South East Classic” the Cheoah river. So Brooke and I loaded up her #TruckLifeTour truck and rolled out of the car park/Gpysy camp we had...
Why you Should Take the Extra Time to Tie Boats Down by bryceaaron | Apr 16, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Trip Reports, Trips, WhitewaterSo I’m driving down I-85 on the South Carolina section of it when all of a sudden we hear a thud…….. DUN DUN DUNNN All of a sudden the horns blare behind us and the road lights up with flashing high-beams letting us know something was astray. We...
High Water North Fork Payette- Wild & Free Tour by nicktroutman | Apr 15, 2017 | Media, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, WhitewaterOur first stop on our Wild & Free tour was Boise, ID. We had originally planned to just spend the night and keep moving west until we realized how epic the whitewater was. The next day I found myself driving up to the North Fork Payette with Alec Voorhees, and...
