Truck Life Tour Episode 2: Nolichucky River Clean up

by sethashworth | Apr 6, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Playboating, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Shortly after arriving in Rock Island Brooke was offered the opportunity for us to go help Dane Jackson do a river clean up on the Nolichucky river.  Jackson kayak had a few demo boats that needed driving out there so we said sure, sounds like fun.  Friday...

Florida, Family, and Fishing

by Robert Brown | Apr 5, 2017 | Family Zone, Fishing, Kilroy, Trip Reports, Trips

Living in North Alabama I look forward to the opportunities when I can get a little salt in my veins, so I took a week off in March to visit my family and do some fishing down in Florida. Once my niece caught wind I was going kayaking, she asked me to take her. I...

#TruckLifeTour Episode 1: Follow the adventures of Team paddlers Seth Ashworth and Brooke Hess

by sethashworth | Apr 4, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

If you are a regular follower of my blog you will know that I was recently in Colombia, Ecuador before that.  But Whilst I had a great time in both of those locations, my Jackson Kayak team mate Brooke Hess called me up and offered me a spot in her truck to...

Skipper adventures Make it fun for the KIDS.

by Bart Swab | Apr 1, 2017 | Family Zone, Fishing, Skipper, Trip Reports, Trips

Melea has been on a paddle craft since before she can remember. Now that she is 11, it’s really cool to see her getting around on our favorite fishing areas on her own kayak. I’ve been working on our distance and she can paddle comfortably and her...

Jim and Will’s Big Adventure

by Chris Funk | Mar 27, 2017 | Fishing, Fishing Subjects, Trip Reports, Trips

An Alabamian a Californian and a Canadian go out in a swamp together. Sounds like the beginning of a joke doesn’t it? But that is exactly what went down in the Okefenokee swamp this March. There were lots of laughs but thankfully none were at our expense! I had the...

California Dreaming – This is the year to boat Cali!

by Hilde Schweitzer | Mar 26, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

With snowpack at close to 200%, and water content at an all time historic high, California is definitely the place to boat this summer.  The problem won’t be IF there will be water like it has been the past 5 years, it will be what run has a low enough level...

Grand Canyon in the Antix

by teamjk | Mar 14, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Uncategorized, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

I recently had to joy of taking the JK Antix down the Grand Canyon on a 13 day raft support trip. Our launch date was Dec. 21 (the shortest day of the year). My first time paddling the Antix was the day we launched. I was a little worried about how the Antix...

The Clock is Ticking on the Nile!!!

by Jessie Stone | Mar 12, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Leaving the Nile and Uganda gets harder every time I come and go these days because I know the clock is now officially ticking on the life span of the free flowing Nile that we know and love. Water levels remain unpredictable at best, but that means good things- tow...

Two Weeks of Falling

by David Silk | Feb 24, 2017 | Creeking, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

It started as just yet another trip suggestion from one of my best friends, one of hundreds that Andrew Oxley and I concoct. We were in Washington state at the time, talking about how much fun falling off cliffs in kayaks is. Pretty soon he came up with the idea- we...

Kayaking the Nile… more than just the whitewater

by Brooke Hess | Feb 23, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

 I emerge from the bathroom for my 12th-ish time that day (I have lost track of the exact number on account of having spent the majority of the past four days lingering within 20 yards of the toilet…) to find my friends heading to the boat rack.  “Are you...

Paddling at the base of spewing Lava: video

by nicktroutman | Feb 6, 2017 | Canada, Internationalisation, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater

I’ve had an interest in lava and volcanoes since a young age. Although after experiencing it first-hand, a lava waterfall was truly a natural phenomenon beyond words. It started off as an idea we had talked about amongst friends, and then after a couple phone calls...

Heard of the Antix? Of course you have

by Dane Jackson | Feb 5, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Playboating, Reviews, River Running, rivers, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

By now i’m sure you have heard about the Antix, i mean besides Beyonce’s twins announcement its pretty much the biggest thing on the internet right now. But it’s being talked about for good reason. Over the last few years other boats have come out...