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 […]
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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 […]
Gauley Fest Weekend
It’s almost that time and one of the biggest kayak parties will hit the Gauley River. Here at Paddle In Pink, we wanted to give you as much helpful information as possible before you make the trip to the Fest. AWA does a great job of laying things out for you so below I am going […]
Crash And Burn
Warning, this post is off topic. I haven’t been able to get to water lately therefore I have been on my mountain bike much more than normal. I recently decided to take off my clipless pedals and go full on platforms. With a decent amount of research I decided to buy the UK pedals by […]
