Words By Ava Simpson In the dynamic world of whitewater kayaking, it’s a universal truth that everyone will experience swimming; the river’s unpredictable nature ensures that each paddler faces this reality. I have encountered plenty of swims, especially in the earlier days. Most of the time, you come out unaffected and can hop back in […]
Words By: Ava Simpson I recently got the Waka Stoke and I must say I have never felt so confident and happy in a creek boat. It has everything that I was looking for in a boat and more… It’s fast, stable, easy to turn, easy to roll, and it skips out like no other […]
Words By: Garrett Quinn Photography By: Scott Mcbride Boat designers and manufacturers are doing an awesome job of making boats that make hard moves easier and this is helping to push the sport to new heights. The number of possible arrows in the quiver is also growing. Companies are now making 2 styles of half […]
By Heather Quinn April 2023 was a month of kayaking festivals on Vancouver Island. As we transition from Winter to Spring among our temperate rainforests, rain is almost guaranteed – but not quite. The climate on Vancouver Island has been changing noticeably in recent years with fewer drizzly winter days, more dry spells for longer […]
Words By: Ben Ghertner Photos By: Ben Ghertner & Harold Schaefer One day, last June, while sitting in traffic driving home from Vancouver, I got a call out of the blue from my buddy Harold Schaefer. It had been a while since I had heard from him. The last time he called me like this, […]
