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  Hi Everyone, Just when you think 2020 can’t be matched, so 2021 comes along to prove you wrong. We’re getting weekly emails now asking “Where is my darn kayak?”. And understandably so! There are some of the big chal­lenges the entire outdoor industry is fac­ing, and kayaking is no exception to this. There are sup­ply chain issues affect­ing every supplier at every lev­el of the man­u­fac­tur­ing process – from raw materials, to completed individual components. This has caused delivery times to slip, which is part of why our deliv­ery dates are not being met.  To throw salt on the...

Every now and then I get inquiries about the system I developed to better understand rapids difficulty.    My system separates Difficulty from danger from exposure. This is how it works:  

You'll have to forgive the ramblings of an old designer, waking on too much coffee after sleeping on too much rum. I want to talk a little about how fashion often wins out over function (in many things, but for our purposes, snowboard design). A long time ago, a few innovative chaps decided to take surfing to the mountains. They rode predominantly powder, and surfed the mountain the way you'd surf a wave. Because the snow was deep, and these people were influenced by surfing, the boards looked a lot like surfboards. And they turned like surfboards too.   However,...