Starting the session with style.
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Daily Photo: Modern Voyageurs
Beautiful colours on the French River. This historic waterway traces the journey of the voyageurs and links Lake Nipissing with Georgian Bay through a 105-kilometre span of interconnecting lakes, gorges and rapids.
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Daily Photo: Summer Splash
John Bumberger was excited to capture this refreshing splash from his kayak’s bow on a paddle on Pennsylvania’s Upper Delaware River.
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Daily Photo: Scouting
Just because you don’t intend to paddle it, doesn’t mean you can’t scout it. Learn to read a river, and you won’t be able to stop yourself from picking a line. Even if it’s on a rapid like this one, right before the Nahanni’s famous 295-foot Virginia Falls.
This photo was an entry in the 2011 Experience Canadian Heritage Rivers Photo Contest, taken by Josh Doti. Learn more about heritage rivers here.
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Daily Photo: New York City
Julieta Gismondi captured this image of stormy skies and skyscrapers while paddling in the waters of New York City.
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How To Use The River
There’s a good reason why the best boaters make it look easy—they work with the water rather than against it. Develop your river reading skills and place your boat onto the most helpful currents and waves to assist your maneuvers.
When exiting eddies, look for a wave trough that meets the eddyline and angles downstream away from the eddy pool. If a good trough is present, you don’t need much momentum.
Relax, fall onto the trough and let the wave do the work. Remember to fix your angle perpendicular to the trough line, not the eddyline and you won’t have to paddle nearly as hard.
This article originally appeared in Rapid, Spring 2012. Download our free iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch App or Android App or read it here.
Daily Photo: Stand and Deliver
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Daily Photo: Dominion
Richmond, VA’s Dominon Riverrock Festival is just two months away. There won’t be a three-storey launch ramp this year like the one in the photo, taken at the 2010 festival. There will be freestyle and boatercross comps and lots of opportunity to paddle. (Oh, and biking, trail running, adventure racing, climbing, yoga, slacklining and standup paddling…but really we care about whitewater boating.)
This photo was taken by Flickr user Gamma Man and is licensed under Creative Commons.
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Daily Photo: Lake Tahoe
Phil Dow met with friends Tim Krane and Jeffrey Fortuna in early spring to explore the north shore of Lake Tahoe. The crystal clear coves and perfect beaches of Sand Harbor were home to the opulent retreat of infamous early 20th century millionaire, George Whittell Jr., before the State of Nevada purchased the land for a state park in 1968.
Location: Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Photo Phil Dow.
This image originally appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Adventure Kayak. Read it here.
Daily Photo: The Life
This sunset picture was taken on the Nancy Lake Canoe Trails near Willow, Alaska. “Just us and a pair of loons on the lake. It doesn’t get much better.”— Marty
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