Spring Break in the Northwest

kimChristieP3210037Two Weekends ago was the 2010 Upper Wind River Festival in Carson, Washington.
It was an all weekend festival with Saturday holding the mass start R2 raft races,
and Sunday holding the mass start kayak and R4 races. Over 13 kayakers showed
up for the short boat race, a forty minute long, three mile-long sprint race down the Upper Wind River,
a class IV section full of boulder gardens. Read the rest of this entry »

2010 Brazil expedition part 3: Rio Ponte Pedra

Ben post-Maribondo attack

An Update from Chris Korbulic and Ben Stookesberry:

 

Ponte da Pedra: 3/3/10
Cachoeira Ponte da Pedra is one of several falls that pops out of South Western Mato Grosso on Google Earth like an emerald amid a swath of agro-industrial fazendas. 

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WCKA: Conner Jackson

CJwaterfallwebThis winter I was able to raise enough money with much support to attend World Class Kayak Academy for their spring semester in Chile and West Coast. So far, it has been everything a young kayaker could dream for. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul Kuthe

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Paul is featured in Outside Magazine Online. A very nice seven minute video capturing the story of how Paul got into Kayaking.

http://outside.away.com/index.html

Choose video #3, right after Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso

Marcus Demuth – STRANDED

Marcus Demuth 243 (2)smallOn January 30th, we stopped our Tierra del Fuego Sea Kayak Expedition. For the past 11 days we were weatherbound in Caleta Falsa, a small bay at the far South Eastern tip of Tierra del Fuego. We made countless break out attempts, but had to return every time back into the shelter of the bay due to the dangerous sea state we encountered every time we stuck our nose out of the shelter of Caleta Falsa. Read the rest of this entry »