The Inland Paddler: Paddling Through the Pandemic
It’s Day 136 of my Pandemic spring and summer…and I can report that in some ways, getting out to do…
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The Inland Paddler: Getting Back to the Water
Getting Back in the Water I am a rule follower…as a rule. Maybe it’s because as a child I was…
The Inland Paddler: New Year, New Things!
Winging in the New Year Sometimes, I get bored. I get bored quite frequently, actually, when work, weather, whatever, keeps…
The Inland Paddler: Lucky Number Six – Reflections on Chattajack
Chattajack 2019 – Lucky Number Six Holy crap! It is hard to fathom that this year, I will have paddled…
The Inland Paddler: Sitting Down and Returning to Paddling Roots
Sitting Down and Returning to Paddling Roots About 20 years ago (gasp!) a dear friend and I decided to buy…
The Inland Paddler: The End of a Season
The Inland Paddler: Outdoor Instructor Life When you are passionate about something, there is nothing more rewarding than introducing someone…
The Inland Paddler: Eagle Wisdom
Learning and Adapting in the 2018 Paddle Season Anyone who reads this blog, or my social media channels or sees…
The Inland Paddler: What I Learned at PaddleSurf Camp
A Week at Nosara Paddlesurf One of my local sup surfing heroes once said, “ A week of intense surfing…
The Inland Paddler: Top Ten Things to Love About March (and a few we don’t)
Being a Paddler in Late February and March Ah the promise of Spring! Here in the Carolinas we’re seeing it…
The Inland Paddler: Happy Thanksgiving!
Giving Thanks for Our Paddle Life If y’all are anything like me, you’ve spent the last few days trying to…
The Inland Paddler: Cold Weather Paddling is Here! Yay!
Embrace Cold Weather Paddling! Okay. I am trying. Really I am. And I am about 75 percent more sincere about…
Chattajack Debrief: 2017 Hell Frozen Over Edition
Another Chattajack 31 for the Books I am not going to write a long winded, mile by mile account of…
The Inland Paddler: Essential Chatta-crap – the stuff I can’t live without right now
Kit that’s Getting me to Chattajack We’re in the final countdown to the premiere event on the East Coast –…
The Inland Paddler: Age – It Really is Just a Number
Age Doesn’t Have to Stop us from Paddling This month, I turn 54. And while I firmly believe that age…
The Inland Paddler: Chatta-Freakout Time 2017 Style
Chattajack Time, Ready or Not If you are or ever have trained for the 31 mile “Inland Molokai to Oahu”…
The Inland Paddler: Always Something to Learn
When A Dawn Patrol Paddle Surf Run Doesn’t Go As Planned No matter what the conditions, there is always something…
The Inland Paddler: Facing the Dragon
Paddle Surfing Notes Sometimes, Mother Ocean knows you need to learn something. Sometimes, well, all times really, in order to…
The Inland Paddler: So Long, 2016, and Thanks for all the Fish
2016 came in like a lamb but seems to be leaving like a lion. A rogue lion that has rampaged…
The Inland Paddler: Learning to Catch the Vertical Bumps…
Or…Lessons from the Climbing Wall. This offseason has been great. I mean really great. I have been listening to the…
The Inland Paddler: Non-Paddles of Thanksgiving
What a whirlwind, these last few weeks! What with the last race of the year at the Surf to Sound…
The Inland Paddler: Live Aloha, Y’all
I am writing tonight in Wrightsville Beach. It’s the eve of the Surf to Sound weekend…which this year also coincides…
Race Reporter’s Notebook: What I Saw at the Games
This year’s Pacific Paddle Games at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA marked a first for me – the…
The Inland Paddler: Reflections on the Gorge
Places known for their epic downwind conditions are special. They are usually breathtakingly beautiful, and they seem to be alive…
The Inland Paddler: Wedged between an Ama and a Hard Place….sort of
We have all had wardrobe malfunctions of one sort of another during our lifetimes. Some have probably been more embarrassing…
The Inland Paddler: United Outside
I don’t want to wax political. Yet, the events of this week, well really the last month, make me deeply,…