ERA Kayak Blog
ERA Kayak Blog
Apr 24th, 2013

For over fifteen years, the southeastern United States has been struggling with the death of our beautiful hemlock trees due to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid.  Many of our rivers are lined with the remains of these once beautiful trees. The significance of this to boaters is the fact that the dead trees are beginning to fall ...

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Apr 21st, 2013

9TH ANNUAL WAVE SPORT NANTAHALA OPEN - all day Saturday, April 27th   There is so much lined up for the weekend, we cannot imagine a better place to be!  Line Up of the Days Events: the Nantahala Open event: Fun for everyone!!  Join Team Wave Sport and Team ERA down at the Falls any time ...

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Apr 1st, 2013

The Nantahala Race Club (NRC) is committed to increasing youth participation in slalom, freestyle – and just kayaking in general. This spring will bring in the third season of the Nantahala Kids Club (NKC) sessions. NKC is a six-week program designed to promote paddle sports among young people in local Nantahala community. The aim is ...

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Mar 21st, 2013

One of the favorite canoe & kayak downriver races is coming up!  The ACA Collegiate Race Series National Championships.  Colleges & Universities from across the country will show up on March 30th at the Tuckasegee River to compete in canoe and kayak downriver racing. What makes the event fun is that it is in both ...

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Mar 6th, 2013

I flipped while kayaking.  Must admit that does not happen very often on an accidental basis, so it surprised me as much as it did folks watching.  Besides just the “having to roll,” was the fact that it happened in Class II whitewater. In front of an audience.  About the time the announcer was so ...

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Feb 24th, 2013

The Nantahala Race Club (NRC) ’s Glacier Breaker is an annual event held on the Nantahala River and is the opening slalom race of the season.  The race always attracts many of the top slalom boaters who come out to shake off the winter rust, kick starting the race season. The Glacier Breaker is popular ...

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Feb 20th, 2013

Endless River Adventures and Wave Sport Host 9th Annual Wave Sport Nantahala Open Nantahala River, NC. – 2013 -  Endless River Adventures and Team Wave Sport, as well as our industry sponsors are pleased to announce the 9th annual Nantahala Open. The date of this year’s event is Saturday, April 27th, 2013. The Nantahala Open ...

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Feb 5th, 2013

2013 marks the 20th year in business for Endless River Adventures (known to many as ERA).  For two decades, “the shop” at ERA has been the go-to place for quality kayak instruction, a gear store, rafting outfitter, fly-fishing headquarters, a great place to park in the Gorge, and a homey back porch for paddlers of ...

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Feb 2nd, 2013

Thousands of college graduates this spring, and everyone will be looking for the same thing, whether it be a job, a sweet internship or acceptance into graduate school.  It is a long line of applicants  going through the interview process.  A good number of interviewers will soon start to get bored of the same ol’ ...

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Jan 10th, 2013

Zeta Rapid on the Futaleafu.  Even to the unitiated the rapid looks crazy. Take 5,000 – 25,000 cfs and stuff all that volume into a z-shaped mini canyon only about 20 feet wide.   For the kayaker scouting the rapid, it takes only a few minutes to note the over-hanging wall with a violently recirculating eddy ...

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