This week Zach interviewed Trevor Croft of Rafting Magazine.

Gear of the Week

This week we responded to an email from a listener who asked about how to make boating friends and improve your skills.

Here are some links to things we talked about:

Gear of the Week

This week we talk about mentorship for whitewater paddlers.

Whitewater Mentorship

News

Gear of the Week

In this episode we talk about kayaking in National Parks and Le Croix. Priscilla also apologizes for her stereotyping of river guides in episode 17.

This week Tim from River Drifters joins us to talk about using perimeter lines on your raft.

We also received our first viewer email and attempt to answer the question: “Are kayakers intrinsically disrespectful?”

News of the Week

– Rogue River Gear Swamp this Saturday from 8:30 to 11:00 AM

Gear of the Week

– 50 to 60 degree offset paddles are awesome (thanks Hammer Factor)

Today we talked about river guide professionalism and Priscilla did an exceptionally great job of coming up with river guide stereotypes.

News of the week

Gear of the week

Today we talked about the overall push to get more people outdoors, and what the costs of doing so might be.  We additionally talked about river permit systems and opinions about portable music in the outdoors.

Here are some other things we mentioned:

We talked about meeting new boating friends on the internet.

This week we talked about raft racing, and a bit about the progression of rafting in the PNW.

Northwest Creeking Competition

Habitat: History of Rafting Progression in the PNW

American Whitewater Journal: Archives

Oregon Rafting Team

This was a fun talk about paddling gear for women and a few other topics we chose to take on.

Here’s some gear we talked about:

Immersion Research-Dropseat Onesie

Emily’s Fleece Vest

Big Agnes Sleeping Bags (Women Sizing)

IR Team Paddler, Jo Kemper Talks about Pee Funnels!