Author: DBP

“WHITEWATER ADVENTURE: Running America’s Great Scenic Rivers” by Richard Bangs, is a typical 80s coffee table book featuring gorgeous full page color photos that are anything but typical. All of the classic American runs of the hairboating, self bailing Glory Days of whitewater paddling are here: the Colorado, Chattooga, Salmon, Rouge, and American rivers to […]

The Red Lady Raft Racers, made up from a team of professional river guides, was formed in the Arkansas Valley.  They are real ambassadors for their sport, a young team with big ambitions, and will spend their winter training on the Colorado River to compete in the National Selections in 2013. The stakes are high […]

Every one of us has been a beginner in whitewater. For the experienced river runner the fear and doubts we overcame so long ago seem like foreign concepts from another life lived long ago and by another person other than ourselves… But lurking in the mind of all boaters, whether we’ve been on the water […]

Alex DePue Freewheeling the Bridge Drop. Photo By Nate Warren Pushing Your Limits By: Alex DePue The time; 4:00 am Sunday morning. Even though I had set my alarm for 7 am I was up, wide awake checking the gauges, using Google maps to find the distances between different runs to try to cram as […]

     A wise man once said, “You win some, you lose some, and you wreck some.”. That wise man was Mr. Ralph Dale Earnhardt, or as us mere mortals may refer to him- “Dale”, “Number 3”, or most aptly, “The Intimidator”. Dale was onto something with that statement, and in a shocking turn of […]

DBP: Peyton, you’re a legendary character in the close-knit East Coast river community, but for those unfamiliar with your fame, please tell us where you are from. P-LOVE: Im not a legend, maybe a character… I moved to West Virginia  16 years ago to become a video boater.               […]

“N8” is a weekly comic strip exclusively for DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE. To contact Mr. Cline email him at [email protected]

PART ONE: The Very High Water sections I am one of a very select few of photographers that work on the Rouge, and most of us have been friends for many years and are a very close crew.  If you think about it we are your biggest fans, your ego boosters, proof you must drink […]

Scouting Sabbaday Falls wearing DBP’s can’t cheat the wallace shirt Park N’ Hucks Exposed By Alex DePue Are you going down the falls in that kayak?; is a phrase I have become well familiar with. Sometimes whether it is due to the area you live, lack of rain, lack of time, or the time of […]

Chris Doing, aka The Garrulous Sherpa, is a kayaker and freelance photographer whose latest passion is capturing images of America’s decay. He lives and works out of Rolling Meadows, IL but travels and paddles extensively throughout America, in particular the rivers of the upper Midwest and Southeast. He is an Admin on the Dirt Bag […]