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Pain, Gain And Nostalgia’s Clever Canoe Trip Trick

“Have I ever written about our ability as humans to forget pain and suffering, remembering only the good times?”...

Come As You Are: How Our Old Paddling Gear...

Muriel was tapping her toe. Ninety-two-year-old Phil knew most of the words. The accordion player, who wasn’t a whole...

A Life Well Wasted

Jimmy Buffett died yesterday. When his box set Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads was released, I was pushing rubber down...

Your Boat Sucks

The local shop showed up at our annual spring whitewater paddling festival with these white capital letters screened across...

Still Happy To Be Here

It didn’t make any sense to my father. He was a pragmatic man. I’m a truck driver’s son. After...

Never Turn Back

I spent a lot of time this summer floating in eddies. Mostly alone. These were the same eddies of...