Immersion Research 2010

Last week, I got an email concerning some potential illegal activity on this class V (although rarely runnable) tributary of Indian Creek. Indian Creek is a major Youghiogheny River trib and very fun class III(IV) creek-ish run. Indian Creek also happens to run through my backyard, so I take particular interest in protecting its watershed [...]

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How do you get to work?
We here at IR have all kinds of fun ways to get to work that don’t involve fossil fuels. There are the traditional methods of walking and riding a bike, but paddling a kayak is the transportation du jour here at IR. Jon Harmon and Cody recently scored an apartment [...]

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This Fourth of July weekend took quite an interesting turn when I headed up to Fort Collins on Thursday the third. I was out in Colorado for a friend’s wedding in Vail, so I decided to take a quick trip up to Rocky Mountain Adventures to say hello. I had never been up there, and [...]

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This past weekend saw the travelling circus that is the early spring paddling season land in central New Jersey. After a very successful Paddlesports show, I headed up to the Big Apple with Justin McGiver, an IR tech rep, and his girlfriend Jen, whose car had broken down in Jersey.
We crashed on the Upper West [...]

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“Look kids: Big Ben, Parliament”
After the trade show in England, I met up with my girlfriend in Germany to visit some old friends and family. Sightseeing in Germany in February isn’t necessarily the chosen time to go, but we got very lucky with the weather and there were obviously no crowds to speak of. While [...]

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The US retail paddlesports season is traditionally kicked off by Rutabaga’s Canoecopia show in early March. I just got back from this show, and with nighttime temps in the minuses and every body of water frozen solid, we had a captive audience to sell and market to. We set up our booth with a myriad [...]

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I realize that this may be quite the stretch, but I promise to be able to tie the two together.
On February 13th, I flew over to England to attend the first annual Canoexpo, the largest retail paddlesports trade show in the UK. The show was organized by Brookband Canoe and Kayak, an awesome retailer in [...]

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