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The Season Trailer from Fitz Cahall on Vimeo. Bryan Smith formerly of Body Boat Blade, and now of Reelwater Productions in British Columbia has a new web tv series hitting the internet called simply The Season. The sponsors are impressive, (Arcteryx Outdoor Research, New Belgium Beer) for a paddling film which usually has the same three [...] I’ve been paddling with John for almost a year now. John has a great sense of adventure, and comes to kayaking from a wide experience in skiing, climbing and mountain bike racing. John holds a BCU 3 star award for sea kayaking. John was also a participant in the aptly named, 2008 survival paddle in [...] Jeff Allen co-owner of Sea Kayaking Cornwall visited this year to instruct and speak. Jeff came a day early to give an instructor update for the WMCKA instructional staff. The topic this year was incident management. Jeff has written a series of articles for Ocean Paddler magazine. Jeff is also writing a book on the [...]
Jon Turk Adventurer and Dreamer WMCKA was blessed to have Jon Turk give a talk at our annual symposium in 2007. Jon gave an excellent talk about why we make journeys. Are they for rational reasons, or are they based on more intangible things, like dreams. This is an oversimplification, but it is the crux of the [...] The technique to rolling a double sea kayak is no different than rolling a single kayak, with one exception. Syncopation. You have to roll together or all bets are off. The other technique is that either the front paddler tucks forward and the rear paddler rolls both up or vice-versa. Obviously Shawna and Kathy have [...] David Goggins Ultramarathoner David, who is also a Navy Sealcompleted the Mcnaughton 150 mile ultra-marathon in 33 hours. In this motivational video he says quite a bit about the drive to finish things, to keep trying, and to perservere. For me this is the [...] WMCKA Sea Kayak Symposium 2008 My Home is the Sea Greg Stamer will attempt to circumnavigate Newfoundland by Sea Kayak starting June 1st 2008. He needs a little assistance getting his Nigel Dennis Greenlander Pro kayak transported there. Greg is now a veteran of an Icelandic circumnavigation with Freya Hoffmeister. Their circumnavigation set a record for the number of days (33 days). If you think you [...] Is Sea Kayaking a Commercial Sport? I was asked by my good friend of LuckyKitchen.com Aeron Bergman’s father a good number of years ago when Turtleneck.net was still in action if I felt that the internet was over-saturated with content. It was a really interesting question. I didn’t really have the context at the time to [...]
Alpine Mountain Climbing is frankly something that terrifies me. Razor edged peaks that ascend into the clouds don’t tempt me. That said, the achievement of Hillary and Tenzing Norgay boggles the mind. With primitive equipment and clothing, but superior skill and determination this pair stepped onto the summit of the world’s tallest mountain in 1953. [...] |
            
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