Stream of Consciousness

by Eugene Buchanan May 3, 2010

Live in Steamboat and your life becomes attuned to the rhythms of the Yampa—floods, droughts, families, goodbyes, subcontractors and of course boating, lots of boating. THE FLOOD My Dutch oven foretells the year to come. I’d last used it to bake a pineapple upside-down cake on the San Juan River. Now, it’s mocking the Archimedes [...]

Honey, I Shrunk the Park

by Elevate August 3, 2009

Mini whitewater park a precursor to the Olympics While rivers were raging in the Rockies this summer, a warehouse in Boulder hosted a miniature indoor alternative: a scale model whitewater arena mimicking the 2012 Olympic course in London. “It’s a pretty common practice,” says three-time World Cup Kayak Slalom Champion Scott Shipley, president of park [...]

Whitewater Wunderkind

by Elevate August 3, 2009

Thirteen-year-old Burress hucks 30-foot falls Watch out river rats. Next time you’re out running the Arkansas or the Colorado you might get a lesson from freestyle boating’s new favorite kid sister—13-year-old Lauren Burress. The paddling prodigy—who won the Freestyle and Slalom Kayaking Junior Nationals at the FIBArk Whitewater Festival last year—got her first kayak at [...]

Surf the Rockies!…Sort Of

by Rob Coppolillo June 3, 2009

Make room in your garage for the latest must-have piece of gear. As if you didn’t have enough toys already, add this to your list of gear to buy and skills to master: the “stand-up paddleboard” (SUP). “It’s really caught on,” explains Walker Ferguson, Rocky Mountain sales rep for C4 Waterman (c4waterman.com). “You can hop [...]

Free Flows the Yampa

by Eugene Buchanan April 6, 2009

An ode to the last unfettered tributary to the Colorado