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Editor’s Notes ..........................7 Words from Readers................8 Local Currents ......................44


Market Place ........................46 In Parting ............................48


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Utah’s Glen Canyon gets better for kayaking as rocky cathedrals are resur- rected. Happy 100th birth- day folding boats.


Discover the kayak hidden deep in the Vatican. Book review: The Only Kayak. Meet the first women (and fastest paddler) to circum- navigate the potato province.


16 Rock the Boat Philip Torrens learns a few lessons about life and liv- ing on the land from an outer-coast encounter with Dwayne and Wayne, two kayaking Paul Bunyans.


18 Paddling Gourmet Spice up your paddling trips with two Mexican recipes—chicken


chimichangas and mango salsa.


20 Safety First


What safety gear should you carry and where is the best place to put it? Two leading kayakers share their thoughts.


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37 Insideout Current Designs’ mad sci- entist designer Dave Kruger has concocted the Stratus 18, a flatwater rac- ing hull with an expedi- tion deck.


Perception knocks a chip off the old Carolina block with a new day-touring 13.5-foot performer.


40 Gearhead


Every kayak sold north of, say, Florida should include a drysuit—the one piece of gear that is sure to get you on the water more often.


43 In the Hatch


Go light with a Golite training shell that packs to the size of a chicken egg. Crank up in the morning with GSI’s bean grinder and coffee press. Seattle Sports takes the air out of other dry bags with their purge valve. And Salus’ Amyot PFD floats you in style without you having to float a loan to get it.


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20 SAFETY FIRST


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