Fall 2005 volume 7 issue 4
DEPARTMENTS Off the Tongue
River Signals
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Rapid Events Schedule 11 River Shorties
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Paddler Profile: David Ford 22 Gear Bag
Local River News Rapid Market Flushed
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8 Standing Waves Corran Addison finds a wave in the Amazon that will surf 650 kayaks; too bad he only has four friends. DING DING: The Kipawa River gets dealt two damming blows in what may be its final round. The death of a Champion and dear friend leaves behind lessons to be learned for us all. Paddling festivals hit by surge. Less Kevlar and more aggression at the slalom nationals.
14 Re-actionary A special Re-actionary retrospective. Ben Aylsworth has been on his soapbox spout- ing off about everything in paddling for seven years. Is he the Kernel of Truth, or rotten to the core?
16 River Alchemy Tibetan folk songs celebrate mountain land- scapes but say nothing of the raw sewage flowing into the rivers. Can the writings of Buddha help build an environmental ethic in China’s turbulent 21st century?
18 Techniques Learn the secrets of surviving big holes. And if that’s not enough drama for you, how about taking part in a local hanging by stringing up a set of slalom gates across your local river?
40 Boat Insider If Dagger’s new river running kayak—the Mamba—was in your golf bag it’d be a seven iron, the all-around club you’d go for when you’re in the rough and driving at the hole.
Less than a year old and cut from the same cloth (Royalex, really), Bell’s Nexus tandem playboat is the prodigious progeny of the solo Prodigy.
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Photo: DESRÉ PICKERS Paddler: Steve Fisher Rapid #5, Zambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
CONTENTS Photo: RICK MATTHEWS Paddler: Billy Harris
2005 Fall // 1
24 PHOTO ANNUAL The year’s best photos
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