Immersion Research 2008

A custom IR Drydeck will make you dry and at home in just about any environment.  It’s as simple as choosing your favorite IR jacket and Sprayskirt to be combined into the Centaur of paddling gear.  When wearing his drydeck, Joey, “the original mustache king,” slips into the deepest relaxation, enabling him to mingle with [...]

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Just over a day’s drive from the southeastern United States lies a tropical paradise just waiting to welcome whitewater paddlers. The rivers that drain the eastern slopes of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Mountains boast beautiful turquoise water and a seemingly endless number of rivers and creeks. From the benign to the extreme, the high concentration of [...]

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Dave Simonetti won the IR Mustache King “2008 Curt Davis Invitational Mustache Growing Contest of Paddlesports.”  He is the Mustache King, and the King only has the best things that life offers.  IR products naturally fall into that category.

King Simonetti himself commented, “Though the quality of IR products always seems to be really high, I [...]

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Demshitz has been in Chile for the last month and a half and have kayaked a bunch of cool rivers reppin’ IR gear! Chile may be sunny mostly everyday in the summer months, but some cozy warm drytops and splashpants are mandatory and have been keeping us comfy in the snow melt rivers of Patagonia. [...]

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Finally, after much disappointment and bitterness, it has been raining in the Southeast for a few weeks now. When the first rains came a month ago, some of the young ‘uns down there got the goods on the Lower Cullasaja. Featured in this video are Alex Brantley, Mac McGee, David Cohen, Chan Jones, Casey Jones, [...]

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We got about 6-8 inches of snow here this week, which means it’s backcountry skiing time. Here’s Roger, and Kasia (of Wilderness Voyageurs fame) out for a 7:30 am pre-work trek through the vast woods that surround Confluence and Ohiopyle.

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I was cleaning out my office desk last week and I came across this:

This is the receipt for the home sewing machine my parents got me for Christmas in 1995. I spent the next two years teaching kayaking and sewing boardshorts and fleece shirts in my basement on that machine until 1997, when Kara and [...]

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IR went plaid for 2009

Limited edition Plaid will become available this winter in the following items:
Double D Drysuit
Comp LX Top
Competition Top
Splash Pants
Thanks,
Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc
IR Southeast Sales Rep

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Ohiopyle State Park is conducting a public meeting on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008, to gather input and feed back on a proposal, under Bureau of State Parks evaluation, which would provide non-commercial private boating access to Ohiopyle Falls. The meeting is an open house public meeting to review the proposal, ask questions of State Park [...]

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We have been working on a way to make our closeouts page a less cumbersome experience for you, and easier for us to update with new products and deals as well. We are happy to unveil our new format, using a blog style method of entering products that are either discontinued colors or blemished items. [...]

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