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Playak Weekly Digest - week 09, 2016
Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling links in week 09, 2016.
Misc. Hawaii Magazine: Stand-up paddleboard your way through Kauai's Hanalei River
Misc. - Year-round, even when the winter surf is up, Hanalei River remains gentle and placid for those who want to safely explore Kauai’s waterways. The palm tree-lined river forms on the slopes of Mount Waialeale—one the wettest spots on earth—and edges up against Hanalei town, where there are numerous surf shops with stand-up paddleboards (SUP) available for rent, and lets out into crescent-shaped Hanalei Bay. Most paddling on the river is confined to the lower mile that winds along the Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge and the small-scale farms where more than half of Hawaii’s taro is grown before emptying into the bay...
Am. Whitewater #FindYourPark and Show Us Your Rivers
Am. Whitewater - The National Park Service is celebrating its Centennial this year (2016) and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act’s 50th anniversary is coming up in 2018. We encourage the paddling community to get out there, take photos, and enjoy rivers while finding your park! You can help tell the story of these rivers which supports their conservation and stewardship by sharing your photos.   The National Park Service has initiated an effort to capture the beauty of each of the 3,200 river segments listed on the Nationwide Rivers Inventory and populate an interactive map with photos...
Jackson Kayak Emily’s 3 Tips for Getting out on the Water- Even when it Intimidates You!
Jackson Kayak - The most inconvenient days have turned into some of the best for paddling. This winter I have already had several paddling experiences that I was originally nervous about. Running a new creek, Crooked Fork, paddling slalom boats to the boat ramp at 60,000 cfs (we had to seal launch them too) and paddling over horizon lines. While being in these situations I remembered a few things that really help me when I feel out of my element, not in my happy place, or simply just lacking confidence.
Kayak Angler Magazine Mike Bryne Remembered–Conservationist, Angler, Friend
Kayak Angler Magazine - Here is what kayak fishing can give you, it can connect you with awesome people who make your life jollier. Mike Byne member of the Carolinas and Virginia kayak fishing community has gone to heaven but everyone misses him. He loved fishing, being on the river, listen to stories as also telling about his stories related to his kayak fishing experiences. He is fun, kind, helpful… Let’s hope we make loads of good friends, paddling and fishing in our lives, it just enriches us some way.
unsponsored Stuck In A Weir And A Kayaking Rut
unsponsored - After 3.5 years of kayaking, the inevitable happened. On Sunday I found myself a little bit stuck: I was in a weir. I haven’t been totally happy paddling for some time, and that was rearing it’s ugly head once more. In our circle of kayaking friends we call it The Fear. It’s paralysing, frustrating, illogical and embarrassing.
unsponsored Dirty First Aid Series - Dealing with Hypothermia
unsponsored - Paddlers, no matter the discipline or location can all suffer from Hypothermia – a condition brought about due to the lowering of the core body temperature. Its final stage is death. Remember what the core needs is heat, it doesn’t need the stored heat going outside the core. Even the most experienced can get in to trouble, as this story shows.
CKS Blog Float Bags for Paddlers requiring gear storage for their kayak trips
CKS Blog - For paddlers who regularly do overnight trips, want the maximum amount of storage, or just like having versatile gear, combo float/dry bags are a great option. They are dry bags that are tapered at the end to fit perfectly in the stern of many modern creek boats. When not filled with overnight or expedition gear, they can be sealed up and inflated for use as a general float bag.
Paddle Making Chris Lowry's Painted Paddles
Paddle Making - Chris Lowry of Ecotone Productions has a Flickr album of his woodwork, including some carved and hand-painted paddles. Chris draws the designs in pencil freehand and then uses sharp tip wood burner to etch. The paddles are then painted with diluted oil paints and protected with spar varnish.
Kayak Session Spade Kayaks New Outfitting Option for 2016
Kayak Session - The folks at Spade kayaks have been working on their boats over the winter are now coming with an improved line of Ace of Spade to satisfy all sorts of paddlers and all sort of budgets.The cockpit rim got revised, the weight have been pushed down even further! and more so the boat comes now in 3 versions: Pro , Whitewater and Basic.
Orion Coolers Team Orion’s Wesley Strader wins BASS Southern Open in Florida!
Orion Coolers - This year’s Professional Bass Fishing tournament season began for Wesley Strader with the BASS Southern Open on the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes. One of the most competitive tournament trails is the Southern Opens with 200 fisherman coming from both the FLW and BASS leagues. Wesley bested the field with consistently good days of fishing winning by a small 2 ounce margin over Cody Detweiler. This was a huge start for the TN angler and Team Orion member.
Kayak Angler Magazine 5 Killer Midwest Tournaments You Need To Join This Year
Kayak Angler Magazine - Tournaments are more and more becoming the lifeblood of our sport, bringing together anglers all for a common goal of catching the biggest fish and claiming the top prize. All around the country new events are popping up left and right and there are a handful of older events that have become a tradition. We've gathered a handful of events that you should be fishing this year for every region in the country, starting with the Midwest. Kayak fishing in the Midwest is blowing up and the time to get in on the action is now.
Canoe Kayak Field Tested: Sweet Protection’s Intergalactic Drysuit
Canoe Kayak - With Sweet’s entry into the drysuit game the company continues to live up to their reputation: the Intergalactic is tough, well-designed and stylish. I’ve paddled for well over a month of days in the suit in everything from Class V whitewater to an extended winter trip down the Grand Canyon. Most recently, I used it for a 45-mile day of mixed whitewater and flatwater at near-freezing winter temperatures in Colorado…
Jackson Kayak Eagle Creek
Jackson Kayak - Eagle Creek is one of the most beautiful places I know. You hike 45 mins, paddle 35ft Punchbowl Falls, then 80ft Metlako Falls, and then paddle out through this amazing canyon.
International Rafting Federation Who are the defending R4 Euro Champions?
International Rafting Federation - And here we are again, two years after the last R4 Euro Rafting Champs which was in Cunovo, Slovakia. Teams are gearing up once again to compete for the title of the best teams in Europe. They’ll be facing each other in Straža, Slovenia from the 16 to 25 May 2016 where they will paddle Sprint, H2H and Slalom on the Tacen artificial course near Ljubljana and then the Krka River for the Downriver.
Palm Blogs The golden age of kayaking in India – Episode 2
Palm Blogs - Cheap air travel, free flowing (as yet undammed) rivers and disposable income; this is the golden age for travelling with your kayak.Episode 2 features the Krie river, also in the state of Meghalaya. With a failed mission elsewhere, we regrouped and got new information on a new drainage that would be worth exploring. After a group discussion we set our sites on the Krie.
Athletes with top online media coverage in February
1. Candice Appleby
2. Izzi Gomez
3. Travis Grant
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