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EDITOR’S DESK: Aaron Erdrich is the biggest Dirt Bag IN THE WORLD. Hands down. He boats hundreds of days every year, sending stouts around the country as a sponsored rafter in his Hyside Mini Max, Paddlecat, or Paddlelac IK, depending on what he’s feelin’ that day. AE will send the gnarliest Class V, send stouts […]
Long, long ago, and far away, I walked down a rocky and dusty road about a mile from camp to my favorite hot springs along the Rio Bio-Bio in Chile. There, surrounded by a ring of rocks next to the river, I found luxuriating in the warm water, a Whale. As hard as it would […]
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Since my first day ever paddling back in 2003 I’ve boated with awesome ladies. On that first trip, I went rafting with Whitewater Adventurers on the Lower Yough in Ohiopyle, PA. Two of the guides were badass females, September and Zorb, and from the start I got to know that it […]
Sitting here, reflecting in the aftermath of events that changed my life and that of several others, mind still spinning like whirlpools in a canyon… I am a 26th Year professional river guide and instructor, having logged over 22,000 commercial river miles, a class V guide since 1995. Known by my peers to be “over […]
EDITOR’S DESK: We have dedicated the month of January to the #DBFamily. What better way to ring in the new year than in celebration of the concept of the family in its many forms spending time together on the whitewater rivers that draw our community together, celebrating the #OneLoveOneRiver Philosophy? In that spirit, we invited […]
Photos by Curt Wilhoit Well, it’s January and time for me to write something interesting for all of you boater beaters to read. Back in December I had the idea that I was going to give you an awesome read on Wilson’s Creek in North Carolina. I had it all set up with my […]
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Happy New Year! With the beginning of January comes a new cover, reflecting a new theme, one we hope will inspire everyone in their pursuit of whitewater in 2017 and beyond. Family has always been major to Dirt Bag Paddlers, and the hashtag #DBFamily has appeared on many of our posts […]
The Yuba River of northern California… we believe the name origin to be that of the Yu-Bah tribe of the Maidu Indians who once made these banks their home. Their Maidu kitchens (grinding stones) and carved artifacts tell of a rich and beautiful life on a river that was once filled “to the trees” with […]
Sometimes giving back means receiving blessings too. That is what happened a few weeks back when DBP Admin Paul Teasdale and his friends tackled one of the most famous rivers in the world, the Zambezi of Africa, on stand up paddle boards. Gracing the cover of this month’s issue, they formed a team: Standup4Rhinos. The […]
It’s my favorite time of year in the Pacific Northwest. The leaves of autumn have fallen, and the mosses and ferns that lay dormant on tree-trunks throughout summer spring to life as a new season of epiphytic foliage joins the conifers for winter. They pitch the Coast Range and lowlands of the Western Cascades of […]