I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… I love my job. Being one of the original Dirt Bag Paddlers gives me access to very interesting people and stories. Our Facebook feed constantly brims over with amazing adventures from around the world. A few weeks back, I inadvertently stumbled across PaddleQuest 1500, and John Connelly. […]
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Very Old. Barton, that is. The taste of bourbon on one’s lips, like the black smudge on the old buildings of Frankfort KY, never left once Associate Editor Wes Breitenbach and I arrived at this year’s National Paddling Film Festival a few weeks back. The classy plastic bottle was passed between us and the other […]
Once again our global community suffers a loss on the river. Sean Curtis of New Zealand died last week. We mourn his passing. We thought it an appropriate time to share these thoughts that passed between members of our inner circle at Dirt Bag Paddlers after one of our friends was lost in a tragedy […]
Training laps on Eiskanal, Augsburg Well, the Earth did another loop around the Sun… Let’s have a look how it went for me in 2015. After some training sessions during the winter on Eiskanal (the Olympic slalom course in Augsburg, Germany), I once again headed home to Turkey in April for my commercial kayak trips […]
March for the paddling community here in America means a return to regular boating, albeit cold water and melt flows. Spring begins in March, the season of renewal, of fresh starts, of warmth, of love. I wished for a photo for this month’s cover photo that would somehow convey all of these separate but interconnected […]
We close the month with some photos from a few of the Dirt Bag Paddlers Admins. We are 125 strong from 30 countries around the globe, drawn from every discipline of paddling. February saw us either getting wet (in the warmer climes) or dreaming about it (for those of us locked in the colder regions). […]
Tallulah Fest has a pretty cool history which dates all the way back to 1998. After the release studies and first successful whitewater release the OG’s decided to throw a party and boom Tallulah Fest was born. However, there were some problems in that Tallulah Falls is a dry town, and kayakers love to party. […]
Fonce Fest San Gil, Colombia is coming. Be a part of something bigger! Last winter I got the chance to paddle in Colombia and it really solidified my feelings about the paddling community. It doesn’t matter where I am paddling, the people I meet in the local communities are a big part of why I […]
The following article introduces newest Dirt Bag Paddlers Admin Asaf Arad and the ‘Babylon Tour.’ On March 1st 2016 begins an epic journey – one man and his riverboard on a road trip through North America on a mission to run rivers at some of the most popular whitewater destinations on the continent. The […]
Associate Editor Wes Breitenbach, Washing out of Frank Bells on the French Broad. My earliest recollections of the word beater was a hand operated kitchen tool used to mix ingredients: to infuse air to a quantity of liquid such as cream or eggs; to blend sauces or a batter. The hand cranked model replaced the […]