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Playak Weekly Digest - week 28, 2016
Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling news in week 28, 2016.
Reiner Glanz Middle Kings - The Hike
Reiner Glanz - Golden Gate Bridge - sightseeing instead of Upper Cherry. After listening to stories and reading trip reports, kayaking through the gorges of Middle Fork Kings was something I planned since my last stay in California in 2013.
Jackson Kayak J.K. U.K. on Tour
Jackson Kayak - Last week saw myself and Martin heading over to France to fish the SKF Kayak Fishing Tournament. It was with mixed emotions that I went, as the original plan had been to catch up with the European Team Captain Jan Liska but after the accident in January that wasn’t to be.
Jackson Kayak Coosa Steelhead
Jackson Kayak - Northern California is blessed with many rivers that support salmon and steelhead. Bank access on these river is generally limited due to private property and heavy vegetation. Traditionally, premium fishing opportunities are limited to drift boats. The Coosa shatters this paradigm and is a joy to paddle down these scenic rivers.
Palm Blogs Pyrenees – into the unknown
Palm Blogs - This was my first year as a qualified PE teacher and so first year I was unable to go away in May. However, I managed to fit in six days in the Pyrenees at the start of June. I met up with some Irish and Spanish paddlers who were already there. Water levels are not guaranteed at this time of the year but I took a chance and it worked out very well.
Tony Paradise Great Colinet Island (2016) Part 2
Tony Paradise - After our tour of the resettled community of Mosquito on Great Colinet Island we got back in our kayaks and paddled south along the east shore. Not long after leaving Mosquito the shoreline began to look more imposing. Some of us paddled close to the cliffs where there was a little action created by the wind waves. Pushed by the wind it wasn't long before we were at the south end of the island and the entrance to Wild Cove where we would set up our tents and become the largest and only community on the island.
American Rivers Why Restoring Wetlands Makes Good Economic Sense
American Rivers - The International Joint Commission (IJC) has proposed a new plan – Plan 2014 – for regulating the water flows of the St. Lawrence and levels of Lake Ontario that will accomplish this wetland restoration at an ecosystem scale. It’s well-established that wetlands offer considerable benefits for people and nature, including flood protection, pollution reduction and outdoor recreational opportunities.
Canoe Kayak How You Will See the Canyon with Fresh Eyes
Canoe Kayak - A note to my younger self and to all river runners with ambitions for running the Grand Canyon. You are a 19-year-old college misfit encamped at the foot of Hance Rapid during a college backpacking trip. It’s September 2000, and you wear a faded thrift-store tee-shirt, torn shorts, and a red bandanna, like you were headed for Burning Man but took a wrong turn outside Vegas. You kind of think yourself a bad-ass. Who am I to disagree.
TotalSUP Bart De Zwart, Winner of the Yukon River Quest
TotalSUP - Last week, Starboard‘s Bart de Zwart won the 2016 Yukon River Quest (YRQ), a 715km endurance race through the Canadian wilderness. This year, for the first time, Stand Up Paddlers were allowed to compete among canoeists and kayakers. After such an incredible performance we decided to ask Bart a couple of questions about the race.
Palm Blogs Around Menorca in 4 Videos - With Sonja Jones
Palm Blogs - Having returned earlier in the summer from a 10 day circumnavigation of Menorca, we caught up with Sonja to tell us about her latest adventure.
SUPracer Aussies James Casey and Terrene Black Claim the Opening Round of Hawaii’s Downwind Month
SUPracer - In brief: Australia's James Jimmy Casey has made it a winning start to Downwind Month in Hawaii, taking out the Da Hui Independence Day Race on Oahu's North Shore.
PaddlingLight Is Your Silent Sport a Fad?
PaddlingLight - Silent sports defined by a sports sole reliance on self-propulsion is the category of sports that paddlesports falls into. It’s joined by other sports such as biking, mountain biking, fat biking, hiking, running, climbing, snowshoeing and many other sports that don’t rely on fossil fuel or electronics to participate. Within the silent sport category, many sports have shined for a short time only to die out as a fad.
REI Make Home: A Paddler’s Approach to Camping
REI - The best start to your stand up paddle board (SUP) adventure is not pulling into the parking lot. It’s rolling out of your sleeping bag, the smell of your coffee mixing with the salt air and the sound of the surf beckoning you straight from your bedheaded, bleary-eyed state to an early, solitary paddle on the water.My favorite place to do this, my waterfront base camp, is in Southern California, where only a fence and a cliff separate you from long, glassy paddles with dolphins and whales.
SUP Examiner Gimmick or Game Changer: Examining Innovations in SUP
SUP Examiner - The intent behind Gimmick or Game Changer is to examine some of the innovations in SUP to evaluate whether or not their claims will stand the test of time or quietly pass into the dustbin of history.
Canoe Kayak If You Build It: Salida, CO, Whitewater Park
Canoe Kayak - Salida, CO, built a whitewater park that cleaned up the river bed and became a centerpiece of the small community. Parks like those in Salida, Boulder and Golden have proved to be ideal training grounds for the next generation of boaters—accessible places to hone skills before tackling Colorado’s steep creeks. With burly, aerial-worthy play features available in Salida from May to July, the park has also turned out freestyle champions.
American Rivers Upstream Battle: Never Stop Paddling
American Rivers - The continued effort to protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness is often exhilarating and challenging too. This 1.1 million acre Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota is a mosaic landscape composed of different forest types, wetlands, and streams, shot-through with a vast network of interconnected lakes and rivers. The Wilderness faces a great threat from Twin Metals, a mining company owned by Chilean mining giant Antofagasta, which proposes to build a sulfide-ore copper mining operation just outside its borders.
Athletes with top online media coverage in July
1. Bart De Zwart
2. Lina Augaitis
3. Mo Freitas
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