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Californiaโs Dearth of Whitewater Parks
We have a wealth of rivers, but have yet to join the wave of building community whitewater parks...
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Category: Kayaking
Behaving Like Salmon
We park at the put-in on the Sacramento River near downtown Redding and unload our river craft, two slick Brit-style composite sea kayaks owned by Garth Schmeck, patriarch of the local paddle club and shop, Penguin Paddlers. Living at the forehead of the Central Valley, four-plus highway hours from the coast, Garth keeps his fitness and rough-water touring skills honed on the swift green water and Class II riffles of the lower Sacramento between Shasta Dam and Red Bluff.
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Take it to the River
Playboating is a sub-discipline of whitewater kayaking that focuses on doing tricks and maneuvers in the river. It can take many forms, from the casual boater doing a stern squirt, to spending an hour cutting up a wave on the way down the river, to dedicated play missions, where challenging a specific play feature is the entire goal for the day. Playboating can be done on flatwater and in eddylines, as well as on waves and in holes
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A Fine Time to Paddle
Push off from a sandy beach or paddle out of a protected harbor along the coast and you are physically no longer a resident of California, but of the eastern Pacific, at the edge of a vast wilderness.
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Baja Paddling: Kayak the sun-kissed Sea of Cortez this winter
Thereโs nothing quite like spending a week on a desert island surrounded by turquoise water to recharge your batteries, recenter your priorities, and lighten your soul. Throw in the adventure of getting there by sea kayak, camping on remote beaches, lots of Vitamin D sunshine, and a margarita or two, and youโre just about guaranteed one relaxing, memorable winter/spring escape.
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Wild & Scenic Bachelor Party
Greg Speicher watches as C-1 paddler Norwood Scott runs a rapid in Devilโs Canyon. We are dragging Tecate. There is so much beer in the raft โ as well as a cooler of frozen red meat and bacon โ on our first day on the Middle Fork of the Feather River that the back end keeps hanging up on shallow rapid entrances.
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One Cold Stroke at a Time
Tahoeโs Karen Rogers out for a multi-mile swim in glassy Tahoe conditions. Rogers plans on swimming the length of Lake Tahoe in August 2009 after three years of training. At 6225 feet and holding a colossal 122 million acre feet of sapphire blue water, Lake Tahoe is not only the crown jewel of the Sierra but also the largest alpine lake in North America and the eighth deepest in the world.
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Droppinโ the Royal Gorge
Eric Strittmatter lines up for the first of two consecutive 50-footers at Heath Springs. For such a benign particulate substance a water molecule sure does pack a punch when itโs rolling with a posse. Collect and confine them in a steep canyon and the power of the assembled molecules can be more intimidating than any gang that ever walked the streets.
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BEER THIRTY!
The link between sports and beer is well established. But in the adventure sports community, weโre not talking about sitting on oneโs kiester, sipping over-priced beer from a plastic cup while watching overpaid professionals have all the fun. For the most part, our beers are earned. For us, beer is the reward at the end of a long backcountry journey, a relaxing capper at the end of a high-intensity effort, the liquid gold at the end of a sweat fest. Not only does it help replace lost calories and soothe from the bloodstream out, it provides a prism of perspective to share and relive our adventures with friends.
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Stick a Paddle In It!
Thereโs a reason they call it the โBay Area,โ ya know. Because it ainโt Phoenix, it ainโt LA, it ainโt Dallas, and it sure as hell ainโt Des Moines โ not that thereโs anything wrong with those places!
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