August Canoe & Kayak
Table of Contents
Volume 36;Issue 5

Canoe & Kayak's August issue is on sale now. Check out the best paddling of British Columbia, gear for the digital age, and read about a race around Manhattan. We also take you kayaking into Chile's deepest fjord and teach you how to paddle like an Olympian. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or paddling shop, or subscribe today!

C&K Eco Fact: Researchers estimate 65 percent of the trees cut in the Canadian Boreal Forest are used to make paper; 80 percent of this paper is shipped to the U.S. C&K proudly uses 85 percent post consumer waste.

On the Cover: Sea kayak surfing at the Skookumchuck tidal rapids. Photo by Jock Bradley

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Glades of Glory By Tom Bie
Our correspondent paddles South Florida’s world-famous mangrove swamp in pursuit of a hard-fighting and peculiar fish.

The Channel By Jeff Moag
Is skill and local knowledge enough to wrest the biggest prize in Hawaiian outrigger canoeing from the Tahitian juggernaut?

DEPARTMENTS Foreword July is like every boater’s birthday.

Put In Olympic preview, kayak co-op founder Ginni Callahan, and Webcams for paddlers. Plus, C&K goes fishing.

How To Paddle with your dog, kayak fish in moving water, and finish a home-built kayak (at last).

Gear A trailer with style

Aquaphiles Canoeing with Giraffe, and a life-lesson about straps.

Destinations A long shot to Labyrinth

Rants and Raves C&K readers rip gas-guzzlers and Democrats

Unfiltered Adventure travel pioneer Olaf Malver

Red Canoe Red goes hunting