What can I say, I love classic multi-day River Trips.  There is something about casually floating downstream for a bunch of days, living next to the river without a care in the world that keeps me yearning to do more.  When my friend Dorrie asked me if I wanted to go to the Selway, I …

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Over the years the Black River Festival in Watertown, New York has developed a reputation for being one of the most intense weekends of paddling and partying anywhere.  There is a race, a demonstration of ridiculous antics with pool toys at Hole Brothers (The Floateo), and one heck of a rockin party at Hudson River Rafting Company. …

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  It’s been a couple of years since I’ve spent any real quality time with the crew over on the Black River, in Waterown, New York.  I showed up on Friday evening to what turned to be part reunion, part summer kick-off party, and part revival. 

   It has certainly been a spring to remember in the Northeastern U.S.  The combination of plentiful snow late in the season and freakishly intense April thunderstorms brought some local river systems to record high flows.  Old-timers in the Adirondacks saay they have NEVER seen this kind of local flooding.  There has been major devastation to infrastructre …

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 Here in the Adirondacks (Waaay up in northern New York) we have seasons.  The boats get put away sometime around Thanksgiving, we go skiing for a few months,  and by the end of March they start to make their way back on to ice cold rivers.   Right now we are finishing one season, and heading full speed …

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                This weekend we saw Northern New York Boating at its absolute best.  Between Inner City Strife Wave being at a perfect level, and other area runs coming in we couldn’t ask for anything more.  Top it off with beautiful fall foliage, and blue skies, and you have …

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                        Labor Day Monday saw the first ever Raquette River Race.  For years paddlers have fantasized about how sweet a race on this northern gem would be.  It wasn’t until the five 2 nine crew stepped up that it actually happened.  When six Americans …

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 Quebec is known for two things.  Poutine and Water.  On a recent trip to the eastern reaches of this candian province 9 kayakers found both to be spectacular.  The Romaine river provided us with 6 days of unbeievable kayaking in a vast setting that is threatened by a massive hydro power project. 

I closed out my month of working and paddling in Norway with a lot of work, and even more paddling.  Two highlights were the Bovra Gorge and the Lower Rauma. The whole trip completely blew my mind.  The paddling was great, the work was plentiful, and the rafting was fun.  I was fortunate enough to …

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            I just got back from an awesome trip to Quebec.  As a group of 13 we were a travelling circus and party all in one.  We dealt with 4 swims, a dislocated shoulder (thanks Trip Kinney for the speedy riverside medical service), a severely broken kayak (not a Pyranha), …

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