This two-hour program is designed to give beginner and intermediate kayakers a jump start in kayak skills emphasizing safety, basic skill and stroke development and basic recovery technique.

Aug. 6—From the cockpit of a whitewater kayak on the Flathead River just outside Columbia Falls, while leading a beginner kayak lesson, Dave Meyers shares his ethos. "The world would be a better place ...

Coastal Kayak's Tidal Current Course teaches students how to maneuver their kayaks in the waters off Ocean City, Md. (Mitch Mitchell) If being at the beach makes you want to get out on the water — ...

Earlier this summer, the city of Montgomery, Alabama, broke ground on a new addition to its downtown: a whitewater park. The $50 million project, which is expected to be completed by summer 2023, will ...

Chris Ladner has been paddling kayaks for 36 years, and he says that learning this old boating activity is intuitive. “Fifteen seconds,” Ladner quipped when asked how long it takes a beginner to ...

HELENA — Keely Larson always figured she was holding her own when she went kayaking with her more experienced friends. But it took only the first few minutes of a recent beginners’ kayaking lesson at ...

Dave Meyers, left, with Montana Kayak Academy, gives a lesson to Daily Inter Lake reporter Adrian Knowler at the Teakettle Fishing Access in Columbia Falls on Wednesday, July 19. (Casey Kreider/Daily ...