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Seal launching can be how you put on the river or how you make a

portage easier or more fun. Sometimes you seal launch on a sliding

slab, but sometimes a seal launch presents the added challenge of

having to keep your bow up as you teeter over a cliff. This how-to

will offer advice for these scenarios as well.



1) Choose your launch pad. Just like in a rapid you have to pick your

line, starting with where you want to end up. Trace your line up-hill

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Over the summer, I was approached by Australian Public Radio journalist Brendan King who travelled to the western U.S. to paddle and record a story that would relate kayakers' motivations to a general listening audience.  He and I paddled the Gorge section of the South Fork American as the first U.S. river of his trip, and recorded an interview that afternoon.  Our interview ended up as a segue from a story about kayak commuting across the Sydney harbor to the next episode, which picks up…

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Fear And Loathing from 7 Finger media on Vimeo.

Thanks to Garath Tate and Laura Farrell for putting the video together.

This year's thin snow pack was almost gone by the time I got out of school.  The last run of the runoff, Middle Kings, would have been…

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Well, depending how much stock you put in the apocalyptic predictions for 2012 and your level of anxiety concerning computer crashes, market failures, or everybody except you and Tao Berman getting raptured away to paradise, this could just be your most important set of New Year's Resolutions yet!  Here are mine:



1)  Work on legalizing kayaking in Yosemite.  I submitted comments during the "Merced River Comprehensive Management Plan scoping period."  Apparently, the Park…

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Untitled from Taylor Cavin on Vimeo.

When people say their trip was "epic," it usually means it was great, maybe even too good.

When people say their trip was "an epic," it usually means it spiraled out of…

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