For women traveling abroad, there are a few cultural hitches that can make for awkward moments. Nothing that should dissuade a female from embarking on an international trip, but if known ahead of time, can make traveling as a female a whole lot easier. Toilet Paper...
Women Outdoors
Slalom Is So Hard
by Carli Beisel From Green Truss to the Nantahala I was supposed to be paddling the Green Truss in White Salmon, WA, but instead I have found myself back in the Nantahala Gorge. Life has come full circle: the Nantahala is where I first learned to kayak, and it is...
A Young Lady’s Perspective on Kayaking
by Margaret Branson, Jackson Mississippi
My Experience Being a Junior Kayak Instructor
by Olivia McGinnis I often go kayaking in Bryson City, North Carolina. There is a kayaking store called Endless River Adventures in Bryson City. Endless River Adventures offers kayaking instruction, guided raft trips, unguided raft trips, and fly fishing instruction....
Ladies Day Out At the Collegiate Race Series National Championships
One of the favorite canoe & kayak downriver races is coming up! The ACA Collegiate Race Series National Championships. Colleges & Universities from across the country will show up on March 30th at the Tuckasegee River to compete in canoe and kayak downriver...
I Ain’t Skerd to Kayak!!
that's how we say it here in the south... the vision behind our I Ain't Skerd program is differentiating between "fear" and "anxiety." Fear is what keeps us from doing something that is way out of our ability, or just really stupid. Anxiety is what keeps us from doing...
Rowan Stuart: ERA Junior Instructor
We would like to introduce you to Rowan Stuart: junior member of the ERA team! In reality, Rowan is a junior junior team member as we already have several juniors on our team. We look to the junior junior position as a way to help encourage a young paddler who fits...
Sweet Briar Kayakers Place Third!
Hats off to the women of Sweet Briar College! From Laura, director of the outdoor program (SWEBOP) at Sweet Briar: Yes We did it!!!!! We have lots of good stories and tales to tell about the American Canoe Association Collegiate Canoe and Kayak championships for...
The River Maidens: five fabulous women kayakers
WNC Magazine's article on women boaters in western North Carolina. Here is a look at five fabulous women of the river who’ve made that progression from novice to expert—and in many cases, serve as role models and mentors to new boaters. Anna Levesque, Bunny Johns,...
Parallels Between a Good Hair Cut and Kayak Instruction
I have come to appreciate that parallels can be drawn between an amazing hair cut and a great day of kayak instruction. Follow me here in replacing “getting my haircut” with “taking a day of instruction” and see if it sounds familiar to you…. First there is just the...
Great Advice from River Maiden Adriene Levknecht
by Juliet I always struggle with the generalization that women struggle with fear/men don't when it comes to whitewater kayaking. I know some guys who have to deal with some pretty heady head games when it comes to kayaking. I am not so sure that there is a way to...
Brynn Benson: Junior Olympic Contender
Team Popp Reporting Live from the Nantahala At today’s Junior Olympic sprint races, we came up and close with cadet superstar Brynn Benson and learned that she is one cool boater chick! Her goals include placing very well (hopefully winning) at the JO’s because she...
Women of Wildwater
One of the aspects of kayak competition that is fascinating is that age is not specifically a handicap (the Hearn/Lugbill line up of winners in the ’96 Olympics were just about the magic age of 40, while this year Hailey Thompson, the women’s C1 slalom racer that...
Kayaking is not always love at first wet exit!
Initiating our newest team member, Courtney into kayaking this summer was not just for orientation,KayakinsHere is Courtney's take on that first wet exit experience.... How to become a whitewater kayaker… “How can you work at Endless and not be a kayaker?” People...
Mariann Saether: The Ability to Let Go
When we ran into Mariann Saether's article: The Ability to Let Go, we had to share it. Mariann Saether is a kick ass paddler and she has a great perspective on "letting go" of issues. The Ability to Let Go When you take away the obvious differences in strength...
Women’s C-1 to be an Olympic Event
Women's C-1 will be a future event in the Olympics. As many times as we've said that women were "too smart" to paddle on their knees, a chance to compete in the Olympics might just make it happen. I sat one afternoon at the takeout on the Nantahala watching a C-1...
Going for the Gold in C-1
I sat one afternoon at the takeout on the Nantahala watching a C-1 boater attain upstream. It broke two of my rules: #1 Going Upstream and #2 Paddling on your knees with just half a paddle! But hey-women are smarter and don't paddle C-1s. But as the C-1 boater headed...
The Little Girl That Goes Kayak Fast
Sixteen year old Haley Popp is no typical southern girl. While her friends spent the Chattanooga summer shopping at Target and Forever 21, Haley was either throwing down at Hell Hole on the Ocoee River in her play boat or bombing down the Nantahala River with her...
Chick Boat for Creek’n-Testing out the Fluid Solo for Size
Testing out the small FLUID Solo for size -brought to us by Maria Noakes So there I was with no boat and its raining, what to do? Indebted to Juliet forever she loans me the Fluid Solo. It happens to be orange, my favorite color. It looks great but how...
Managing the Kayaker’s spring head case
One of the challenges in spring is managing that head case. With spring in the air and the rivers flowing…it is definitely time to brush all the cobwebs and leaves out of your boat and get on the river! Don’t be surprised if your first trip to the river you have some...