Even when it's well below freezing, a few hardy kayakers and canoeists paddle wherever they can on partially frozen rivers or even a lake near Portage where the water's 80 degrees. They dress for it ...

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There was a time, not so long ago, when I believed winter kayaking was only for those who were tinfoil-hat crazy. The idea of splashing through rapids on an ice-cold mountain stream in January seemed ...

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DETROIT, Ore. (AP) – Amid the chaos, Stephen Duff made sure not to panic. The 53-year-old professor of architecture at the University of Oregon just had been knocked upside down in his kayak, flipped ...

It was a particularly cold day last December when I arrived at the upper North Santiam River with a small group of kayakers. Snow coated the ground and large icicles hung from the canyon walls as we ...

Before dawn on a cold January morning in 2014, Veronica Sosa, a relative newcomer to long-distance canoeing, set out with a teammate on a 62-mile paddle race down the Colorado River. The temperature ...

Bumping along a freshly plowed road in Lake Tahoe, Calif., I felt oddly unburdened. No skis were locked on top of my car, no clunky boots rattled in the trunk. After more than a decade of ski trips to ...