Category Archive: Paddler Lifestyle Articles

                        Labor Day Monday saw the first ever Raquette River Race.  For years paddlers have fantasized about how sweet a race on this northern gem would be.  It wasn’t until the five 2 nine crew stepped up that it actually happened.  When six Americans …

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Review by Adam Goshorn Action Photos by John Kern Having entered the sport after the introduction of edges and flatter hulls, the majority of the boats that I have owned have had simi-planing hulls, including most of the creekers. Perhaps it is because of my introduction to planing hulls early in my paddling progression or …

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After some heavy rains in New York, a bunch of us rallied to Watertown to surf Inner City Strife.  Here’s the video: Team Pyranha at Inner City Strife.

Photo – Craig Kleckner doing another one of his ridiculous back PanAms at Inner City Wave on the Black River The month of August has been a mix of summer road trip recovery and northeast playboating.  Here’s a lil bloggings of Inner City Wave on the Black, low level Ottawa, and a visit to Rochester’s …

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 Quebec is known for two things.  Poutine and Water.  On a recent trip to the eastern reaches of this candian province 9 kayakers found both to be spectacular.  The Romaine river provided us with 6 days of unbeievable kayaking in a vast setting that is threatened by a massive hydro power project. 

For me, this past summer was a lot different than the ones in the past.  After a super savage snowboard wipe out 8 and a half months ago, and an epic month touring around Colorado on the Pyranah van, I spent most of my time in Northwest Montana living at home with the fam.  My …

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Myself, Jake Holland and Will Hatt have now been in Thailand for 12 days searching out some whitewater fun. Arriving in Bangkok we got our boats on the train and took the bus to Chiang Mai (It turned out to be the queen’s birthday so no seats for us on the train!) Here we sorted …

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Stoked to finally check out what the Upper Upper East Fork Kaweah had to offer.  Nathan Hunkapiler, Macy Burnham & Chris Tulley 1’st D’ed a steep portion of the Upper Upper 2 years ago that uncovered some goods, but required the team to hike out on day two due to time constraints.  This left the …

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Photo by: Nicole Mansfield Well we made it to British Columbia. Here we found a very fast long slide, a short but, super fun creek, and spent some time at the mighty Skookumchuck narrows.  demshitz made a video of course!!   Click right here