Acouple’s leisurely sea kayak on British Columbia’s south coast took a dramatic turn when conditions changed in the afternoon ...

The paddlesports industry’s transition away from PFAS is underway, and for Stig Larsson of Level Six and Ted Keyes of Kokatat ...

When did you get started writing Canoe Dig It? A friend sent me a video of Marc Ornstein doing a freestyle interpretive canoeing set to Chris de Burgh’s song, “The Lady in Red.” I couldn’t believe ...

I was an innocent backpacker until the day friends showed me strange little boats that let them extend their hikes across rivers and lakes. At first, their packrafts looked to me like glorified pool ...

Razor Kayaks is the vision of founder Rob Fallon, a self-described “kayak tragic” with a dozen recreational boats lying around, who wanted to create something he actually enjoyed paddling. The ...

Scheduled dam releases, a close river community, and five miles of punchy class III—the Pigeon River Gorge has about everything a budding whitewater enthusiast could ask for. Throw in the mix that ...

The Crooked River is a small, relatively unknown river in western Maine. Adventure photographer Andy Gagne had lived near the Crooked River for 10 years, paddling and fishing its waters regularly. But ...

Not everyone is programmed to chill when the time comes to slip out on the water. Some of us are on the hunt to cover miles or get our heart rate up. Personally, I have a difficult time going ...

Sometimes, Paddling Magazine gets one of the very first production boats out of the molds. There are NASA-like logistics to get a still-warm hull onto a trailer headed to some river put-in somewhere.

The sky was still dark on a Sunday morning in late March when I set my new solo canoe on the surface of the Mississippi River. I’d been thinking about this moment for years, dreaming of all the places ...

Nothing kicks off a post-paddle debate like river rescue knives. Most of us have a favorite, put up with others we didn’t really like, have lost more than one, and, hopefully, never find ourselves in ...

Last summer I took my family on a three-week trip. Getting our minivan to the take-out needed a shuttle. I called the only game in town and braced myself for the quote, sure it would be several ...