Paddling

“Beam me up, Scotty!” To the surf break, that is.

On calm water and through rapids, Gear Junkie tests the inflatable kayak/raft hybrid that is the ZOIK AlterEgo.

Ryan Stuart, the gear editor at Canada’s Explore magazine, tests the All Star whitewater kayak for Gear Junkie.

They may look like inflatable pool toys. But pack rafts can be serious tools for backcountry exploration.

Become one with the rapids on a riverboard, a whitewater craft on which participants swim half-submerged to navigate chutes and drops.

A kayak rack for $35? Yep. Meet the old-school solution, Yakima’s Foam Blocks.

It’s January 17, white and cold in Minneapolis. But I’ve got a race to prepare for. Here are a couple shots from my icy training…

Writer Jason Magness put the Simon River Sports Hammer paddle to the test on multiple expeditions this past year. Here is his verdict.

Paddle all winter long. The Ergometer is an exercise machine that mimics the kayaking experience. I am using it to train for a race in…

The FastKayak Flyer wing-blade paddle lives up to its name. Our tester proved the point on a recent adventure race in Abu Dhabi.

A wetsuit made with rubber produced from limestone (as opposed to petroleum byproducts) was a hit during a cold-water surf session with our reviewer.

Wrap-up from day four of the “Choose-Your-Alleghenies-Adventure” trip. Kayaking Raystown Lake!

This video is from a two-day packrafting trip I did with the YogaSlackers group this past summer.

Pack rafting, an outdoors activity with roots in aviator survival boats from World War II, is the topic of my travel article in today’s New…

The eco surfboard has arrived. Hess Surfboards touts recycled foam and sustainably-harvested wood as materials used in the making of its eco-conscious boards.

Meet Patagonia’s “Greener Neoprene” wetsuit, a surf-friendly suit made by incorporating limestone instead of oil as its base.

The Hobie Cat i9S is the newest boat in a line of kayaks that can be paddled or pedaled with your feet to move on…

The indecisive paddler will love the Dagger Axis kayak series — as it can’t make up its mind either.

To the uninitiated, ice fishing seems improbable, wacky, and dangerous. But every winter, more than 2 million hardy northerners go to their place on the…

Boaters take note: Wanderer Imports LLC of Asheville, N.C., now offers cow bone Maori necklaces carved with symbols purported to help guarantee safe passage over…

A man named Karl Wischnofske contacted me the other day about an oddball water-walking device called the Aquaskipper, made by the Camas, Washington, company Inventist…

My story on via ferrata climbing—see blog post below from 08/28/06—ran in New York Times today. Mike Santi, our Online Publisher, was on the front…