I have wanted to take an international kayaking trip over Christmas for years now, but various obligations kept me from doing so. We finally made it happen this year – I had saved up enough vacation days, and Toby is in his last year of school, so he had a long winter break. As far […]
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Private Investigation: The Flying Squirrel vs. The 9R
Amy and I are considering purchasing a new kayaks and were curious about two new boats: the Liquid Logic Flying Squirrel and the Pyranha 9R. Both boats are sub-nine foot boats designed to go fast. I was especially intrigued by the looks of the 9R, and Amy was excited by the buzz about the Flying Squirrel. […]
White Water King of New York Race Series Wrap Up
Most of my early days kayaking (way back when I was in grad school) were spent in the Northeast. I did a lot of river running in my playboat on the Deerfield, then eventually moved up to some creek boating in whatever beat up boat my mentors could find in their old college stomping grounds. The […]
An Ode to Flow
Water is my favorite element. Why, you might ask? The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu sums up my feelings better and more concisely than I ever could. “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever […]
Sit This One Out
I find the longer I am in this sport, the harder decisions I have to make. For me, some of the hardest are when I have to pull off a river, or when to not put on a river in the first place. Normally at this time of the year, you would expect a report […]
Green River Take Over
On Sunday, October 19th, Laura Farrell organized a Women in Charge – Green River Take Over event. Usually, I am all for all-girl paddling events, but I almost did not go to this one. I feared that organizing a massive group to paddle the Green River on a Sunday two weeks before the Green Race was not the […]
