To give an accurate description of the 5th ANNUAL NANTAHALA ICEBREAKERS EVENT, held a few days back on the lower Nantahala River (Patton’s Run to NOC) in Bryson City, NC. We decided to get two points of view from the far sides of the spectrum: founder and first timer. We spoke with Michael Potter just […]
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It would be a lie if I told you the day started out like any other day before a paddling trip. It was January 16th; an island of warmth in a week of bitter cold temperatures. First of all I made myself a pretty decent breakfast, something I never do before having to squeeze […]
Bhupendra Singh Rana, known to his many friends around the world as “Bhupi”, is a Class V kayaker and raft guide who has worked and paddled all over, from Africa and Europe to his homeland India and his new base in the US. We asked him to reflect on his time guiding the White Nile […]
Hunter is a talented young artist and paddler who first came to the attention of Dirt Bag Paddlers after a friend posted about him on our Facebook page. We asked Hunter to tell us a bit about his artwork and affiliation with Wee Beasties. “Six months ago I was preparing to begin my freshman year […]
Action Alert for the Trout Creek/Wind River drainage in Washington! Only 2 Days to respond! Thank you to Kristi Burch Reynier for writing this notice in the local forum: “The White Salmon newspaper ran an article about a Forest Service proposed plan to restore steelhead habitat in Trout Creek, a Wind tributary. The plan appears […]
Renaissance Man Corran Addison has seemed to touch all aspects of our sport. A canoeist and kayaker, a surfer and surfboard and kayak designer, he has been at the foremost of paddling innovation. An Olympian in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Addison competed for his home country South Africa in a number of world […]
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WELCOME TO THE WOLF PACK ~ by Taz Riggs
Some people, just by force of their basic nature, have a tendency to react to some of the ideals set forth by this group with a call for nihilism and anarchy. River guides are actually one of the most diverse groups of people you could find among any one profession. Because for them to live […]
In medieval folklore a mythical island known as ‘Ultima-Thule’ was foretold in the north. It was ‘a land beyond the borders of the known world’ guarded by an element neither sea, nor land nor sky: Icebergs. Since first learning of Lago Geike in my first guiding season on the Rio Serrano it had become a […]
“Whatever you do, Lou, don’t miss that eddy!” It was 1963; Lou and I were 15-year-old river-guide trainees on the South Fork American; and these were the words of our mentor and boss Bryce Whitmore, one of California’s first two rafting outfitters. The rapid before us–Devil’s John (now called Satan’s Cesspool and rated class III […]
Happy New Year, Dirtbags! 2016 is NOW, and with it comes our latest January cover photo here at DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE. I got to thinking about what image would portray January properly… Icy, snowy shots of whitewater extremists started springing to mind. Then it hit me: Wait a minute! Even though it’s full on winter […]