KAYAKING & RAFTING

By Sarah Thornely Photos: Supjunkie & Pistyll Productions SUP ‘N’ sail When you get a call on a Friday evening to be in Scotland to set sail at 17.00 on Sunday and to, “Just bring a sleeping bag,” you know you are in for a big adventure!  When you get a call on a Friday

BY STEVE BROOKS Steve has lived in Austria for over 24 years, from being a place to come and work seasonally on the river to a base camp and finally making Austria his home! Steve’s love for kayaking and adventure is infectious, and this can especially be seen in the Kayak School he set up

SKTC – Sea Kayak Training Camp 2022 The SKTC 2022 has come to an end. I’m writing this only a few days later, after five editions, I thought it was time to make the balance. For the SKTC concept, we worked together with Spirit of Korkyra. Boris and Ivka are about the same age as

By Rhi Davies Cumbria Canoeists – Colonsay and Oronsay sea kayaking Twelve keen, ‘intermediate’ sea kayakers, six days of paddling, four leaders, and two small islands. We would be based out of the Colonsay backpackers for five nights, with wild camping planned for our final two nights around Colonsay and Oransay. We were eating fresh

The Paddler magazine attended the 2022 World Championships, which was a worlds to remember. Photos: Phil Bulkeley @philbulkeleyphotography, Antony Edmonds AE Photos, Tom Clare @tomclaremedia & Kim Jones www.facebook.com/witzendphoto 2022 Freestyle Worlds After years of hard work, worldwide chaos, postponements, and talk of a closed competition, the event stood on the precipice of collapse. And

Dane Jackson Dane Jackson by Phil Bulkeley @philbulkeleyphotography Men’s K1 GoldC1 Silver Photos:Phil Bulkeley@philbulkeleyphotography Dane JacksonMen’s K1 Gold & C1 Silver Outside of your own performance – what was your highlight of the championships and why?Hard to pick a moment, but I think the fact that in every class there was so much shuffling of

Ottilie Robinson-Shaw Ottilie Robinson-Shaw by Clive Woods www.clivewoodsportsphotography.com Women’s K1 GoldC1 GoldSquirt Gold Photos:Phil Bulkeley@philbulkeleyphotography &Clive Woodswww.clivewoodsportsphotography.com Ottilie Robinson-ShawWomen’s K1, C1 & Squirt Gold Outside of your own performance – what was your highlight of the championships and why?There were a couple of things special about a home worlds. For starters, getting to share the World’s experience

Slalom Published on juillet 30th, 2022 | by Kayak Session Germany’s Ricarda Funk thrilled a capacity home crowd by retaining her world title and Czech Vit Prindis finally broke through for his first crown on a pulsating day of action at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg. Funk showed no signs of pressure

From the filmmaker: “Meet Frank Kuiack, the last traditional fishing guide in Algonquin Park. Kuiack carries a lifetime of stories and wisdom about the Algonquin. His magnetic personality, skills on the water and knowledge of the park’s intricate lakes and trails has inspired two novels. When Kuiack was eight-years-old, a group of American anglers offered

ICF News Published on juillet 29th, 2022 | by Kayak Session Olympic and world champion show fastest form in world title qualifiers The past two men’s C1 Olympic champions and the women’s C1 world champion from 2019 topped their respective leaderboards after qualifying at the ICF Canoe and Extreme Slalom World Championships in Augsburg on

ICF News Published on juillet 28th, 2022 | by Kayak Session Italian Stefanie Horn and Czech Vit Prindis displayed the best form on the opening day of individual competition in front of a big crowd at the ICF Canoe and Extreme Slalom World Championships in Augsburg, Germany, on Thursday. Horn, who grew up paddling on

BAD RIVER – The Cooks River: Australia’s sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia’s largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In his little red kayak, Beau Miles traces all 23 kilometers of the Cooks River, inspired to do so after paddling his

I recently had the rare experience of getting away for a solo weekend kayaking trip. Rare because responsible and gainfully employed fathers of young children do not just go away on solo trips in the wilderness—it’s not like the wilderness gives you anything concrete to justify your reasons for going there. It just so happened

Back Issues Published on juillet 28th, 2022 | by Kayak Session Mission: The rio blanco project – Source to sea in wild Patagonia Join Aniol Serrasolses and Nouria Newman as they become the first to accomplish a descent of Chile’s enigmatic Río Blanco from source to sea. Destination: Sjoa – The pearl of Norway When most

Slalom Published on juillet 27th, 2022 | by Kayak Session Host nation Germany picked up two gold medals, Slovenia broke a 29-year drought and the Czech Republic successfully defended their 2021 title in teams competition on the opening day of racing at the ICF Canoe and Extreme Slalom World Championships in Augsburg on Wednesday. Germany

Making a shortlist of Algonquin Park’s finest lakes is no easy task. With more than 1,500 lakes to choose from, there are hundreds of breathtaking destinations that offer something for everyone. To create this list of 21 lakes, we factored in each lake’s exceptional scenic value, as well as its ease of access for paddlers