Instructor Highlight – Emily Cohn

Hello Everyone, Meet Emily, one of our longtime instructors.  It has been great to see her progression as a paddler and instructor over the years and we are very lucky to have such a positive and well rounded instructor working with the students. She has a way of seeing where the students are coming from [...]

Instructor Highlight- Craig Campbell

Craig, currently our bearded instructor

Cheat Race Pictorial

Over past few weeks Irene has been working on putting together a picture/audio presentation of the Cheat River Race.  Many of you have participated in this annual spring paddling program and many of you have wondered what it is all about.  Take a look at this great slide presentation from Irene Owsley.  You can also [...]

Instructor Highlight

Meet Helene Scalliet, one of the great instructors at Liquid Adventures.

Drysuit Care Continued

Pre-stretch your latex gaskets before you hit the river. Find out how.

Dickerson Open at Long Last!

It has been a long time now, but this weekend will be the first weekend that we have been able to paddle the course in a long while. We just got word about 330 pm this afternoon so you can imagine that my afternoon has been a little extra busy. Fortunately Aaron Mann came by [...]

Care and Feeding of Your Cold Weather Gear

Leaves have begun to turn, there have been a few cooler days, the parking lot at Anglers is mostly empty, and MD Chute is at 3.5. Oh, no there is a tear in my dry top gasket! How did that happen? I haven’t used it all season. Or, I get lightheaded when I wear my [...]

Canada for Strong Intermediates

The trip began well (and did end well, by the way) – starting with a week-long parking space negotiated by Nathan at Rockwood Conference Center for left-behind cars, a new LAKS van complete with board in the rear, and an engrossing Sunday NYT crossword puzzle, finished off enroute by Alexina, Anne Nuechterlein, and Anne Kibler [...]

Mexico “Youth” Trip

Just got back from Mexico and I could not have asked for a better trip, but I could have done without getting sick. This year it was only Nathan Sass and I who decided to huck the gnar. We flew into Mexico City on Christmas Day and took a bus out to Aventurec in Tlapacoyan. [...]

Pablo McCandless to Lead Slalom Workouts!

Some of you are no stranger to Pablo and others could use a brief introduction. Pablo grew up paddling as a camper learning from Tom many years ago, then trained as a slalom racer, and became a kayak instructor at camp and occasional trip leader for Tom. Pablo has raced and represented the US as [...]

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