Why should I care?…funny you should ask by Herschel Finch | May 5, 2018 | Fishing, Internationalisation, rivers, United StatesNot sure if you’ve noticed but I’m kind of a clean water and tree-hug’n/Dirt-worshiper type. And as such, I’ve been kind of busy since last fall and right thru to now. Which kind helps explain my absence from the boards here lately. I was tapped by folks at the...
The Middle Fork… of the Payette? by Micah Kneidl | May 4, 2018 | Creeking, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesEverybody has heard of the Payette River, and many of you are probably familiar with various sections of the Payette, but not so many people are familiar specifically with the Middle Fork of the Payette River. To get to the Middle Fork, drive towards beautiful Garden...
Event Recap: Beaters’ Boating Banger by katiejackson | May 3, 2018 | Event Coverage, Events, rivers, WhitewaterI’ve heard rumors of times long, long ago when there were competitions between the southeastern collegiate kayaking clubs… Times when college clubs would travel around on a “tour” between schools’ home runs for races and freestyle competitions. Today, the southeastern...
Cold and Frustrated: Stories from Stakeout. Episode 1: The Eyebrow Bet by sethashworth | May 1, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Media, Playboating, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesSo this week, and for the next month David Silk and I are coming out with a weekly Video blog following our adventures through Stakeout. We want to show more than just the epic kayaking of this time of year but also the off river shenanigans, travel around Canada...
How to BEAT the weekend warrior! by Mathieu Dumoulin | Apr 30, 2018 | Antix, Fitness, France, Instructional, Internationalisation, rivers, Whitewater, Whitewater InstructionLast year I had big changes happening in my personal life. I went from full time kayaker based in France and traveling 8-10 months out of the year to getting married, and settle down in Colorado with my wife. Domesticated, stuck and assigned to a job, there was a lot...
Bear Creek with a “Big Bang” 2018 by Kat and David Levitt | Apr 28, 2018 | Creeking, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesBear Creek and a Big Bang Go to the video below if you want to skip the story. On March 2nd, I finished work and headed to meet a group of young guns to paddle Bear creek. It was a beautiful day and the water level was a perfect minimum to run everything. The normal...
‘Live like Maria NOC Shootout’ by nicktroutman | Apr 25, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Canada, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, MixMaster, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThis past weekend was the ‘Live like Maria NOC Shootout’. It was another incredible weekend at NOC and the Nantahala River. This year the event was held in memory of the late Maria Noakes, who was a mother, paddler, local hero, and friend to many people and paddlers...
How to Splat – Wheel a Kayak by Clay Wright | Apr 24, 2018 | Internationalisation, MixMaster, rivers, United States, WhitewaterWhat’s more fun than squirting into a ”Splat”? Smashing the bow down and ‘splat-wheeling’ on across it! The big advantage of having both ends of your boat wafer-thin is that you can get vertical on both sides, and with that ability comes...
Soft Power Health’s Trip down the Nile by Jessie Stone | Apr 21, 2018 | Internationalisation, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, WhitewaterFriday March 16th is a cloudy, cool morning. The weather looked overcast, but nothing like the day before when 10 hours of nonstop rain pounded the Ugandan red clay landscape. I had a small river flowing right down to my banda and wasn’t sure I would make it...
Personal First Descent of Great Falls by ethanfrangenburg | Apr 13, 2018 | rivers, Video, WhitewaterThis past December, I got my first ever runs in on the Potomac’s most incredible piece of whitewater known as Great Falls, an amazing class V run with a variety of lines and moves. After much training with Danny Stock, one of the smoothest paddlers on the falls, to...
10 things to take care of before the season starts by teamjk | Apr 7, 2018 | rivers, WhitewaterThe season is coming real fast, up here in Quebec we’ll have to wait a few more weeks, but some of you already have a ton of fun south of the border. For those of who are still waiting, make sure you take a look at that to-do list. 1....
The Forbidden Fruit by teamjk | Apr 6, 2018 | rivers, Video, WhitewaterRock Creek in Ga. is the forbidden fruit of creeks for Chattanooga Creekers. The putin is on private property and the takeout is on private property. You have to know someone that knows someone to paddle this creek. There are long mandatory portages and must make...
