Pick a Cover Any Cover!
Canoe & Kayak staff talk about the covers they chose as their favorites.
Daddy’s Creek Race
Tennessee paddlers hold a grassroots race to celebrate their local rivers.
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Pick a Cover Any Cover!
01.23.2013
Canoe & Kayak Magazine is turning 40 years old this March and just launched the 40th Anniversary Issue yesterday. It’s been a long, fun journey through history for the staff as they sought old stories, writers and boaters for this issue. Part of the search was for good covers, and everyone naturally found a couple to which they were drawn. In a few words, the staff all explain the covers they chose as their favorite.
Land of the Thunder Dragon, 1981
01.22.2013
Wick Walker waited six years for permission to run rivers in Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom toothed with 25,000-foot peaks. “Logic dictates that the best rivers in the world pour from the flanks of the world’s greatest mountains,” Eric Evans explained in the June 1982 issue of Canoe magazine.
Daddy’s Creek Race
01.22.2013
For most paddlers, the creek racing world of whitewater kayaking is pretty epic. The world’s top boaters compete down steep V+ Chilean gorges in the Whitewater Grand Prix and gnarly Homestake Creek at the
Arriba Alseseca
01.18.2013
Check out C&K’s exclusive video, photos and event wrap from the Rio Alseseca race, quickly gaining international appeal as one of the winter’s go-to paddling destination-races.
Teach Me How To Spinny
01.18.2013
Paddling POV-filmmaker maestro Shon Bollock is back at it, testing a prototype dual-GoPro “spinny” helmet mount in this new edit with fellow NorCal kayaker Chris Korbulic.
Keller Strikes Again
01.17.2013
Pat Keller explains his Ozone Falls first in this Canoekayak.com exclusive, taking advantage of this week’s torrential rain to open up one of the Southeast’s big waterfall prizes: the 100-plus-footer on Tennessee’s Fall Creek.
New year, new challenge
01.16.2013
A photo gallery and unique racer’s perspective of the fourth annual New Year Challenge, an all-craft, seven-mile race in downtown Seattle.
2013 Outdoor Gadgets
01.16.2013
Last week, The Consumer Electronics Conference, by far the biggest technology tradeshow in the world, convened in Las Vegas, Nevada. Everything from futuristic head massagers to vibrating diet spoons debuted over the week. Of the more than 2,000 odd and interesting gadgets that companies showcased during the event, Canoe & Kayak found a couple that paired well with an outdoor lifestyle. Check out the five outdoor gizmos to look out for in the coming months.
Verlen Kruger stories “from the vault”
01.15.2013
Verlen Kruger. He was 58 when he left his home in Lansing, Michigan four years ago to go on a canoe trip. His life up until then had been pretty straightforward. Never again…
Cascada, Behind the Scenes
01.14.2013
Forge Motion Pictures and NRS have done it again. In November, paddlers Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, and Galen Volckhausen spent a week with the Forge team hunting waterfalls in the jungles of Veracruz, Mexico. Despite torrential rain dousing their cameras and insects feasting on their bodies, videographers Anson Fogel and Skip Armstrong came away with some of the most amazing waterfall footage yet captured. Last week Canoe & Kayak caught up with Bradt and Boomer about their behind-the-scenes experience for Cascada, and here’s what they had to say.
