You always hear of people chasing the endless summer or sometimes the endless spring. Winter, at least in kayak circles, is an under-appreciated season. What place to better give winter its due than upstate New York and Vermont in early April? Armed with my Stikine drysuit, I left the sunny southeast (temperatures in the 70s) [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Andy Holcombe
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Palm/Dagger Europe are once again involved in sponsoring the Youth Freestyle series for 2009. The first event at Llangollen took place under bright sunshine and blue skies, unfortunately this also meant extremely low water levels with very few places to get any verticality for the freestyle competition.
The organisers made the most of the features that [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Gear 4 Women
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Shhh. Don’t say anything but its been quite the late spring in the southeast! And let me tell you after a couple years of drought that is a good good thing. I chaulk it up to my good friend Matt Young going on spring break. Matt teaches elementary school in Lake Placid, NY and for [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by Andy Holcombe
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Some people have asked why I didn’t go for selections this year - this was a hard decision for me, but once I’d made it the easiest one in the world!
As selections got near I noticed more and more how people were getting stressed about the whole business, I did some thinking and reminded myself [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Gear 4 Women
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It was only two months since we paddled through Patagonian seas, but two months off the water felt like a lifetime. The weeble that I am (with no muscles that work below the chest) felt very wobbly as I nosed my way out of the jetty in Laide – a west coast Scottish village, its [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by karen
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I’ve been very excited since hearing we were re-launching the Kingpin fresh out of molds in the UK, on my way to Nottingham for the NSR and Paddle Fest I dropped into the factory to see the first two set for the oven. Unloading the van to set up shop in the HPP car park [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Ed Smith
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