We just received the first shipment into Canada of the Hobie PFD waist packs. If you feel the need (or just plain need) to wear a PFD – this is the one for SUP. It is a very small waist pack and has an “airplane” style pull out life vest that is either manually or CO2 inflated. Safety is a good thing.  Come check them out.

No Race tonight – but we will be having our weekly FREE Demo out at Telford Lake. Come on out and give SUP a try. 6:30 PM till you’re tired of paddling!

On Sunday July 18 – Easy Rider held the first ever SUP Trek down the North Saskatchewan River. We all met at the Muttart Conservatory at 8:00 AM and loaded up the Sprinter van and shuttled out to Shalom Park, which is right beside Rabbit Hill. From there it was four hours and  twenty minutes of casual paddling to go 35 km to Rafters Landing in downtown Edmonton. We did make a couple of pit stops along the way, first on a sand bar about 10 km into the paddle and then right at the outflow of Black Mud Creek […]