Canoe & KayakMay 20th, 2013
It's always a pleasure to welcome international paddlers to U.S. races. But at this year's U.S. Slalom Team Trials, their attendance came with a twist....
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Canoe & KayakMay 20th, 2013
This story featured in the 2012 June issue. By Eugene Buchanan If Jim Lochhead’s stainless steel Sierra cup could talk, it could hold court—and coffee—among canoeists anywhere. Etched onto it are the names of Arctic runs like the Great Slave/Burnside, Yellowknife/Coppermine and South Nahanni. His homemade, 6-foot, mahogany camp table contains the burned-in names of ...
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Canoe & KayakMay 20th, 2013
“Park and play” wasn’t in the lexicon of the voyageurs or Lewis and Clark. When the water ran out or the river became too steep, they portaged. ...
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Canoe & KayakMay 17th, 2013
A look at one of the Midwest's most popular kayaking events, this weekend's 27-mile Short's to Short's Paddle, which has competitors race across a series of northern Michigan's lakes and end at the Short’s Brewing Company production brewery in Elk Rapids, Mich., with a few pints to celebrate the arrival of summer. ...
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Canoe & KayakMay 17th, 2013
The times have changed and so have the cameras, but not what photographers ask of their boating models. ...
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Canoe & KayakMay 15th, 2013
No stretch of water on the planet is as feared as the legendary passage around Cape Horn, where gale-force winds, rogue waves, icebergs and summertime blizzards have sunk more than 800 ships. Freya Hoffmeister intended to paddle around it. ...
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Canoe & KayakMay 15th, 2013
In light of the recent Santa Cruz Paddlefest, the Pacific Paddling Surf Series and the upcoming World Championships in July, C&K staff thought it'd be appropriate to bring back a story from the March 1987 issue. The story explains the joys of riding one and, well, what a waveski even is, an explanation from 30 years ago that still answers the same frequently asked question today. ...
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Canoe & KayakMay 15th, 2013
In Episode Eleven of the R3: Rescue for River Runners video lesson series debuting on CanoeKayak.com, Jim Coffey explores risk assessment further in order to create more efficient and timely rescues, highlighting a few specific techniques to create efficiencies in time-sensitive foot-entrapment scenarios....
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Canoe & KayakMay 14th, 2013
Autumn is a wonderful time to be up north in Minnesota: The air is crisp and the people and bugs have long since gone. ...
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