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Last summer, I found myself floating through a narrow slot canyon on the Colorado River, the red rock walls towering 1,000 feet above my kayak. The silence was broken only by the echo of my paddle strokes and the occasional cry of a canyon wren. That's when it hit me - after 20 years of […]

Introduction The morning mist was still clinging to the Wailua River when I pushed my kayak into the jade-colored water for the first time. That was twelve years ago, and I'd just moved to Kauai from Texas, thinking I knew a thing or two about paddling from my weekends on Lake Travis. Boy, was I […]

I'll never forget my first real sea kayaking experience off the Dorset coast. There I was, paddling what felt like a toothpick through 3-foot swells, wondering if I'd bitten off more than I could chew. That was 15 years ago. Since then, I've paddled everywhere from the glassy waters of the Sea of Cortez to […]

The first time I paddled around the corner at Ke'e Beach and saw those 4,000-foot cliffs rising straight from the Pacific, my jaw literally dropped. I'd been kayaking for years – from Alaska's glacier-fed waters to the mangroves of Florida – but nothing prepared me for the raw majesty of kayaking the Na Pali Coast. […]

Last summer, I found myself standing knee-deep in the Little Miami River, watching my buddy's kayak float away after a botched launch. As we scrambled through the shallows trying to catch it, an older paddler glided past and chuckled, "First time on Ohio waters?" That moment taught me two things: always secure your kayak, and […]