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The Big Gear Show Launches Open-Air Tradeshow in 2021

The Big Gear Show, a demo and buying experience built for outdoor, bike, paddling and climbing buyers and makers,...

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Video: The Mystery of Squirt Boating

There’s a subculture of kayaking known by few and understood by fewer. The paddlers don diving goggles and neoprene...

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Whitewater Technology Launches Debut Paddle Range

Greenville, SC - October 28th 2021 - Whitewater Technology, a new entrant to the high performance paddlesports market launches...

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A Paddler’s Guide to Social Distancing

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Iced in with nowhere to go? As more states and provinces recommend people work from home, stay home from school, cancel paddling events and...

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Review: Esquif Zephyr 2.0 XL

I dug through the Rapid archives all the way back to 2006 to find my original review of the...

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Kayaks

Pakayak Bluefin 14 Review

Until recently, a kayak’s off-water stealth didn’t factor into most paddlers’ purchasing decisions. Portable kayaks—an eclectic catch-all of inflatable,...

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Kayaks

Creek Boat Review: Pyranha 9R II

When Pyranha released the original 9R in 2014, they rewrote the rulebook on creek boats. At the time, creeks...

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Canoes

Solo Canoe Review: Adirondack Canoe Company’s 14-Foot Boreas

There’s a brief but particular full chassis shudder a 2003 Suburu Outback makes when its serpentine belt snaps. So,...

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3 Best Electric SUP Pumps For 2021

The trade-off for the convenience and easy portability of an inflatable SUP is the small hassle of inflation. Sure,...

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Camping Gear

Bear Safety Gear for Camping

“Your best defense in bear country is your brain—your knowledge and understanding of bears,” writes Steve Herrero in his...

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Gear

The Best Paddling & Camping Gear For Your Next...

River guides know all the secrets to staying comfortable while camping, chilling and tending to chores in canyon country....

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Trips

Adventures

Darcy Gaechter Paddles the Amazon River Source to Sea

It took Darcy Gaechter 148 days to paddle the Amazon River—but it took her six years to write Amazon...

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Adventures

The Broken Skull: The Best New River In the...

This Broken Skull River northern adventure story begins below the marquee lights, outside an 80-year-old downtown theater on a...

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Adventures

The First Self-Supported Tandem Canoe Mission Down The Grand...

I grimace, hold my breath and force the barrel to close. “Shitter is full!” I call to the group. It’s...

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Adventures

Retracing Canoe Routes Of Old On The Eastmain River...

Eighteenth- and 19th-century fur traders knew the vast network of waterways cascading over polished granite through endless black spruce...

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Skills

Ultimate Guide to Kayaking at Night: Lights, Bioluminescence And...

Paddling in the dark is like entering a new world. On a moonlit lake, a familiar route becomes exotic....

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Campcraft

Tim’s Wilderness Rules

As my wife and kids know all too well, I’ve got a complicated set of rules for how I...

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Photography

How To Put A Kayaker On The Moon

I began my photography career in 2012 and four years later met James Manke, the kayaker in this photo....

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Delta Kayaks Is The Latest Manufacturer to Get Ripped-Off...

Overseas knockoffs are nothing new in the paddling business, but it hits a little harder when it’s your baby...

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The One Simple Safety Feature To Save The Coast...

An empty, drifting kayak is an eerie sight. Reports of unmanned paddlecraft immediately trigger a search and rescue response from...

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Off the Tongue

Paddling Publisher vs. Greek Philosopher Heraclitus

It was the Greek philosopher Heraclitus who said, “No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s...

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