Jah Praise Whitewater

Send us Fan Mail Dane was born into kayaking royalty and literally grew up on kayak tour surrounded by the best kayakers in the world. While this was certainly fertile ground, Dane has gone on to accomplish far more than his pedigree would dictate. 5 Time World Freestyle Champion, Red Bull Athlete, Sole person to break the 4-minute mark on the Green River Race, winner of most every extreme race and inspiration to generations of kayakers. If there is a continuous thread in Wh...

Send us Fan Mail GoFundMe site to help with Charlie's cancer journey: Fundraiser by Charles Munsey : Help Charlie Munsey Fight Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer In the early 90's Charlie Munsey and his friend Conrad Fourney just drove to the Stikine and put on, becoming the 4th descent and signing their names on the chalkboard at Site Zed. Those names looked out of place next to the legends of Lesser, Ammons, Holbeck, Wasson, etc. It would'nt look out of place long as Charlie wou...

Send us Fan Mail If you have paddled around New England, you have heard tales of the Kern Brothers. Seemingly each tantalizing creek you pass, there is some tale about the Kern Brothers. Willie, Chuck and Johnny drove each other to push kayaking and exploration kayaking to its limits. The brothers were central to a golden era of unlocking the steepest multi-days in the Sierra's. Runs that are still among the best multi-days in the world; Middle Kings, Royal Gorge, Fant...

Send us Fan Mail Clay Wright may very well have more hours in a kayak on a river than any human being in history....maybe even more than any Inuit on the ocean. Nearly 5 decades ago at age 7, Clay Wright stood on the banks of Hell Hole and the Nantahala watching his Mom paddle and knowing he had to learn to kayak or he was staying on shore. He learned....and not too long after, started going on kayak tour. Clay was central to the legendary Falling Down movies with BJ & K...

Send us Fan Mail Shannon Carroll grew up spending summers on the New River and soon fell in with BJ and Katie Johnson and went on a whirlwind of a whitewater life. She endured the usual additional obstacles and doubts of men, which women of these sports face. Confidence in herself was not something Shannon lacked and she rose to the top of the sport, becoming one of the first ever Red Bull-sponsored kayakers. Amid all of this, one day the kayaking world woke up to news that ...