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The 2016 rafting season started like most before, with some overnight trips and a few day stretches trying to bag high water on the rise with my AIRE 156R oar rig. I live in Vail, Colorado, which in my personal opinion is an overlooked whitewater mecca. There’s class IV water rolling right through town, class […]
I planned the first vacation that I have taken since December 25, 2013 for the week of Gauley Fest 2016. Not having a real plan of events yet Mike Joseph asked me to meet him in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania on Sunday September 10 to raft the Lower Youghiogheny, then move over to meet BDR on the […]
A few days after arriving at the Dirt Bag Paddlers HQ at Kosir’s Rapid Rafts on the Wisconsin/Michigan border, a weather front moved in bringing rain to the area. It didn’t take much to motivate and rally when the gauges showed a rising Falls River by L’Anse, Michigan – just a few hours drive away […]
Rivers all around the world are under threat. One that is close to the heart of many UK paddlers is the Afon Conwy, in North Wales. With multiple sections of top class whitewater, including the famous Fairy Glen, as well as important and irreplaceable woodlands and habitats, the proposed development is just too damaging. The […]
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: No compilation of best rivers in the world, which is what we have humbly attempted in this “Our Rivers, Our World” issue of DBP MAGAZINE ONLINE, would be complete without including the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Since starting this publication in November 2014, no single whitewater stretch has been […]
With its headwaters deep in the Opal Creek Wilderness, the Little North Santiam River is better known by almost everyone simply as “Opal Creek.” Its eponymous headwaters tributary joins Battleaxe Creek to form this pristine Oregon classic. The water here is typically referred to as “gin-clear,” a description that captures both the water’s high quality, […]
Oh, the Wolf River! Flowing 225 miles from deep in the heart of Wisconsin’s Northwoods, draining untouched National Forest and tribal reservation lands most of her length, it joins with the Fox River where together they empty into Green Bay of Lake Michigan. The Wolf is the best known of the whitewater stretches of the […]
The Pigeon River gets its name from the now extinct passenger pigeon that once used this river valley as part of its annual migration path. But unlike the bird, the river has been given a second chance. It is by no means a big river. At 70 miles long and a drainage basin of only […]
“Write a piece on your favourite river.” It should be such an easy brief, to write about a place that you love. But where? Some rivers have been my workplace, others my playground. I’ve paddled rivers that I’ve been happy to survive and those that I could run endless laps on, day after day. Out […]
Every paddler has that go to river they run every chance they can. Like most paddlers my go to river is my home run, Cattaraugus Creek. However, being in the midst of a severe drought I have been forced to find water someplace new. Traveling from the Black River in Watertown, NY to the Cheat […]