As we approach the takeout to the amazing trip that was the year 2015, let’s take a look back at the highs and lows of the journey. Dirt Bag Paddlers put together a top rank river festival schedule across the globe this year. We covered Gore Fest, Canoecopia, Ganga Kayak Festival, Russell Fork Rendezvous, Dagali […]
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One of the pleasures in growing older in a sport is watching the development of up and comers, those young guns who take up the mantels of their predecessors and charge forward. Andrew Morrisey first came to our attention at Dirt Bag Paddlers a few years back, when he messaged us with a sick edit […]
As DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE Associate Editor and Chief Historian (we throw titles to each other faster than ropes; we’re Dirtbags of course) I want to encourage folks out there to write their own history. If the idea seems ‘nerdy’ or obsessive compulsive let me put you at ease. The first and perhaps only person […]
December 19th 2015 Another day starts on the Peshtigo. We wake late and as always I’m behind schedule for our 1pm put in time. I arrive at the house ready to rip, we partake then suit up. Todd and I dress slightly faster than Aaron, J-man, and Jamey and we head up to the put […]
Some of us Dirtbags are paddlers to our core, living, breathing and subsisting on little more than whitewater… Then there are those few boaters out there who shine the light, renaissance men who do as much away from the river as on it to further the sport and enrich our community and the world beyond. […]
The idea behind conducting this interview happened around a climbers camp in the steep hills above the New River Gorge of West Virginia a few days after the Animal Race on the Upper Gauley last fall, as Marcelo and Aaron Erdrich debated on a Great Falls mission. We agreed to get together at season’s end […]
Some might say nothing is sweeter than feeling the wind on your face, your blade catching the water, and being at peace with the sea. Yet our sport – and hobby to many – used to be a matter of life or death at its origin. When the Inuits and Aleutians headed out into frigid […]
Some of us Dirtbags are paddlers to our core, living, breathing and subsisting on little more than whitewater… Then there are those few boaters out there who shine the light, renaissance men who do as much away from the river as on it to further the sport and enrich our community and the world beyond. […]
The Hurley Classic in the UK is one of the biggest freestyle kayaking events in the world, with hundreds of paddlers of mixed abilities competing against each other with one aim, to have fun! Seventeen year old Dirt Bag Paddlers Admin Chris Macdonald took part in this year’s paddling alongside the sport’s top athletes, racing […]
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RAFTING THE CASBAH. by Mark Hirst
Stepping out off at Marrakesh airport I was hit by the warm air. This was a pleasant change from the blast chilled air of my Arctic winter residence. I was in Morocco to run my first IRF workshop of the season for Berber Rafting Adventures in the Atlas Mountains. Our drive into The Atlas mountains […]