FALL 2003 Features


26 Pro Big Air Shootout The only way to review this year’s bounce boats was to give them to the pros who can really go big. We rounded up the hottest team paddlers and their spon- sors’ best big-air boats for the ultimate showdown.


34Ultimate Road Trip: Northern B.C.


A film crew lands in wet and wild Terrace, B.C., to find a 63-foot waterfall, kicks on the world’s shortest river, unlimited first descents and one very crowded house.


38 Inside the 10 Best Paddling Bars


B.C.’s skookumest burger, mullets in Minden, “pimp and ho” theme nights, gallon-sized pitchers, Manitoba’s thousand-dollar cognac, Quebec’s cheap strippers, Ontario’s aging hippies and more.


34 Creeks 26 Pro Test


on the cover: Billy Harris launches sick air at the Boatwerks Rampstyle Huckfest. photo Rapid Stock Images.


Bars 38 Corey Boux, Legate Creek, B.C.


photo top left: Ryan Creary. others: Rapid Stock Images.


Dagger team paddler Brendan Mark testing the Pyranha S6


Departments Off the Tongue


River Signals 2003 Events River Alchemy Gear Bag


Boat Insider Esquif Zoom Local River News Rapid Market


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Flushed Boatwerks Rampstyle Huckfest 48


8Standing Waves Exclusive photo coverage—Rapid goes to Austria. Remembering Barry White. Communication breakdown. First descent in the Maritimes. Re-actionary—why I hate slobbering mutts. Sick paddling videos—Corran Addison, Ken Whiting, a paean to Jackass and more.


20 Paddler Profile Brian Creer—At age 88, B.C.’s godfather of whitewater just bought a new creek boat and still does seal launches off the diving board.


22Technique An eddy-catching secret for open canoe. Andrew Westwood says, “take it round the outside, round the outside.”


24 Park n Play Saddle up and put the Wild West back in rodeo. The Frog on B.C.’s Thompson River is a big- volume thrill ride in the heart of cowboy country.


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