Learning to kayak can be intimidating. This I learned in a muddy, debris-strewn eddy on Pennsylvania’s Lower Youghigheny River. Barely a month since I’d hit my first roll, I was not yet advanced ...

The Aleut and Alutiiq people invented the kayak over 5,000 years ago. Since 90 percent of their diet came from the ocean, the kayaks were traditionally used for hunting sea life. At the Alaska Native ...

The drought isn’t good for much, but where there is water, kayakers are making the best of the low levels. Virtually every scheduled kayaking event in Summit County has been cancelled this season due ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Confluence Kayaks in Denver and the various classes in kayaking the store offers. When I interviewed Jonathan Kahn, the owner and founder, I’d mentioned that I had ...

Richard Learning didn't know how to use a kayak paddle when he embarked on the first leg of a 2,700-kilometre journey from Nain, N.L., to the Quebec border more than a decade ago. This summer, the ...

Canoes and kayaks have been around basically as long as people have been propelling themselves along the water. Borne of need – as a platform for fishing or hunting or transporting goods – today the ...