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The Oregon Rafting Team (ORT) of the USA is a unique team and they are much more than just a competitive team. They also engage in volunteer work which includes river cleanups, search and rescue missions, as well as coordinating events. Their trademark has become shooting waterfalls and their adventures take our breath away. Many […]

This THROWBACK THURSDAY special is a great collection of first hand accounts from the men who explored and battled the wilderness and each other in the formative first 150 years of European conquest of North America. Check out these tales from the river, WAY BACK when dirtbags were paddling The Northcountry trading furs and taking […]

The dogg dropping in on Big Splat Big Splat and Broken Glass: An Epic Day on the Big Sandy by The Dogg It had been a long dry summer in the Mid-Atlantic and low water had peoplegoing crazy, doing desperate things for attention. I couldn’t check Facebook withoutbeing bombarded with such nonsense as the modern […]

DBP: What have you been up to recently? Anton: Well I recently moved to Geneva, Switzerland with my girlfriend. We are both pretty busy with studies. Her at the graduate institute of Geneva and me trying to be a helicopter pilot. All good though because Geneva has a lot of mountains and a lot of […]

These pictures were snapped by Mr. Mitchell while out on the river with Team River Runner, a mission he wrote about in the article “Out-Paddling The Demons- Team River Runner Westwater Trip 9/26  –  28  2014.” Please enjoy the full article here at DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE, posted on 11/28/14. John W. Mitchell is freelance writer […]

Getting ready for your epic mission on the Grand? Or just cooling out after a great season this year…Whether the Wallace was delivered from the river, from the rocks, from a fall or from a thunderbolt, even an airplane, this book has EVERY SINGLE documented death in the Grand Canyon. From the famous to the […]

This last weekend the Nepal Kayak Club and other sponsors hosted the 13th Himalayan Whitewater Festival on the banks of the Trisuli River in Fishling, Nepal. Boaters from all over the country and the world gathered to paddle the small picturesque gorges of this Class III to IV+ stretch, and party afterwards to live music […]

When I first started paddling the Peshtigo River in Wisconsin I was a customer. And what does every customer love to do? Look at the ridiculous face they make in the biggest rapid on the river, of course. At Kosir’s Rapid Rafts they had the ultimate setup: pictures and video tape (yep, way before digital […]

      Often the search for freedom is a tangled web of setbacks we weave through daily. It begins with a simple revolution in the mind which leads to our evolution as beings. If we do not evolve with our surrounding world, we begin to lose sight of the nature of being, therefore one […]

Have a great story to tell? A photo expośe on your latest mission? Some original art, or a report on the environment or something else from around the DBWorld? We here at Dirt Bag Paddlers are always looking for new submissions to DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE! We’d love your input! We have always felt that DBP […]