The boating this summer has been pretty great. Graduated college, drove to the Rockies, and spent the last month kayaking in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Montana. Now I'm back in New England getting stoked for a summer of Hartlands and the bi-weekly Raquette releases.…

Our team of four was abuzz with uncertainty during the drive to the Chetco—a remote, rarely run Wild & Scenic River in southern Oregon.  We knew that we had, at least, a 3-mile hike to get to the river from the top of Chetco Pass.  What we didn’t know was whether the road to the top of the pass would even…

Greetings Daggerians!

I'm just checking in from Canada, where levels are sick and the weather is beautiful.  

I went down to the Black River in Watertown, NY this past weekend for a super fun day of racing and hanging out!    The Black was the site for the first of the Whitewater King of New York race series, and I wanted to jump in and fire down some of those rapids with the local…

California had an epic snow pack this year that has lead to a few often dry runs having boatable water levels. One such river was the Rubicon. The Rubicon River flows into the Middle Fork of the American River above the commonly kayaked and rafted Tunnel Chute run on the Middle American. The Rubicon has always had a reputation for being a really great class IV-V overnighter run, but unfortunately hasn’t had enough water to be kayaked in six years. According to kayakers who have been boating…

Now that Tyler is on the road to recovery from a major back accident it seemed like a good idea to catch up with the always positive and smooth on the water kayaker.  Enjoy and welcome back to the water Tyler!

Tyler…