ERA note: We have known Keely Kelleher since she was seven or eight years old. She and her sister, Brenna, came out from Montana and spent a week kayaking with us. After their week here, they sent a letter to the editor of the local newspaper about how beautiful...
Women Outdoors
Never Say Never: My First Ocoee Trip
By Heather Huckeba This story began back in 2005. Spring of 2005 is when I attended my first Arkansas Canoe Club School of Whitewater Paddling. I didn’t really know yet if whitewater paddling was something I would stick with or not. I was interested – definitely...
Kayaking Goes Pink and Green for the Day!
The male/female gender percentages were way skewed to female this weekend in the Nantahala Gorge with the arrival of a group of kayakers from all-women's Sweet Briar College - who's colors are pink and green. Sweet Briar has always had an active outdoor program...
Taylor Cote: Team Wave Sport
Taylor Cote: newest member of Team Wave Sport. At 14 years old she keeps a pretty busy schedule: riding horses, playing soft ball, summiting Mt. Ranier and kayaking. Her paddling resume is already beginning to outdistance a lot of the boaters that helped get her into...
Bridging the Generations: A Womens Roundtable
There is nothing like getting together after a good day of paddling and telling stories! While the group consisting of Maria Noakes, Whitney Lonsdale, Beth Rypins and Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff could not work it out to actually spend a day on the river together, we were...
Tanya Faux-New Team Wave Sport Member and Aussie thoughts on the Nantahala Open
The second annual Nantahala Open was even more fun to spectator than the first: more air, smoother style, crazier carnage, and MUCH warmer weather! The famous Nantahala River was in it prime today. Travelling all the way from Australia as part of Team Wave Sport, I...