C O N T E N T S volume 10 >> no 2
F E A T U R E S 28 HELLBOUND
AND DETERMINED Dear fellow students and Mrs. Tightypants; this year for my summer vacation I went to Hell. It was fun. Mostly. There were scary bugs, towering, unassailable gorges of rock, cocaine bandits hiding in the jungle and, nastiest of all, the river that took us there—the last un-run major tributary of the Amazon, El Rio Huallaga.
35 PADDLERS WITHOUT
BORDERS Trying to carve a path to the East across vast oceans and with that damn blob of North America in the way, early European explorers were forced to take up paddles to hack their way to a northwest passage and the land of spice. True exploration may be gone, but its venturesome spirit remains. In the footsteps of the Hudsons and Magellans of history follow a host of new-age explorers. Here are a few of their stories.
40 EXPEDITION BOAT
BUYER’S GUIDE Seven kayak hulls that huck and haul.
D E P A R T M E N T S PHOTO DEREK ENDRESS/KEN MADSEN TRAVERSES THE TWEEDSMUIR GLACIER IN B.C. IN 1989 // COVER PHOTO RYAN CREARY/PADDLER NICK TROUTMAN
6 OFF THE TONGUE 8 RIVER SIGNALS
24 RIVER TECHNIQUE
An open boat open hand to fl edgling ‘yakers, two thumbs up for Rapid’s fi rst run and going out on a limb for better paddling porn.
10 WATERCOLOURS 15 STANDING WAVES
To make use of every river feature and the most of your day, Kelsey Thompson says paddle on the rocks. With the 2x4 stroke progression beginner canoeists’ learning curve can be as sharp as their learned carve.
42 BOAT INSIDER
Open season for the Moose River hunt; join the month-long, mile-high club; and Alberta’s Boundary Creek is an unguarded border with a full-body cavity search.
20 PADDLER PROFILE 22 RIVER ALCHEMY Although centuries
Shaggy Designs is pure genius, part insanity and the most intelligent compromise between real life and river life for its owners.
apart, Lao-tzu
wisdom and Jim Snyder’s squirt boat philosophy may foretell the future of our rivers.
46 GEAR BAG
The next English REVolution is here, Pyranha’s latest freestyle fl yer. Mad River Canoe re-writes the Caption.
SteriPEN provides litres for only ounces; North Water’s innovative Canyon Liner fi lls a few rolls; NRS’ Pilot knife is one sharp cookie; by Aire, for land or sea, Frodo duffels are for the Samwise; and PeakUK’s drytop is ironclad comfort.
48 RAPID MARKET 50 FLUSHED
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