Join Rivers for Change for the Gorge Downwind Paddling Festival (GDPF) – a week-long event at the Columbia River Gorge near Hood River, OR, from July 19-25. There are two premier events – the inaugural North American Surfski/OC1 Downwind Championships and the incredibly fun and popularWildside Relay. The week will also feature [...]
This venue will be the used for the 2016 USCA National Championship August 11-16, 2016. This first time race was set up to give racers a preview of the course for 2016. http://www.uscanoe.com/ Mark your calendars. As you will see from the video there were only a few surfskis but many [...]
From its murky origins in 2013, the Casco Bay Challenge has quickly grown to be an important race on the New England calendar. In theory, the course is dead simple: Proceed northeast from Willard Beach in South Portland 16.5 miles across Casco Bay to the Mere Point boat launch. In [...]
The 2015 Ride the Bull race was intense. A few years ago, I thought we should have a moderate distance race(9 miles) but make it ROUGH. The course runs along the small cliffs of Bull Point, Mackeral Cove,Short Point and into Hull Cove. The course even encompasses a tidal rip [...]
Hubris, I've recently learned, is not a tasty Middle Eastern dish (which explains a lot about the odd looks I got when ordering Lebanese take-out the other day). Turns out it's a virulent strain of cockiness that can be cured only by by being surgically cut down a notch or [...]
