kayak skill
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Review: Forward stroke
Sometimes it is necessary to take a class after we buy a new piece of gear to add to our kayak kit. A good friend and student of mine…
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🔥 Leave No Trace: campfire
Campfires… I have spent many a night watching the flames dance and mingle among the stars on a moonless night. I have heard many tall tails and ghost-stories…
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Lower back pain verses the kayak
The best solution to surviving or preventing back pain is stretching, exercising, and practicing proper techniques…
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🧼 Leave No Trace: human waste
As the title implies this post is a dirty subject. I am a backpacker first and a paddler second. So the practice of handling feces in the outdoors…
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Weather Cocking, Icebreaker, and Paddling
Jeff Cooper of H2Outfiffers shared with me a simple analogy to explain weather cocking. A common definition of weather cocking is that “a boat moving forward points into…
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National Safe Boating Week
People who use the water call the vests that they wear by many names. Some of the names for these water vests are: personal flotation device, buoyancy aid,…
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Sit on Top Self Kayak Rescue
I am in the water, so now what do I do? That is a common question that anglers have if they come off their sit on top kayak…
