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Sea to Sky Highway in Howe Sound during Cloudy Sunny Day. British Columbia, Canada.
Kayaking is one of the most underrated extreme sports in the game. Primarily because kayaking is such a varied activity, from leisurely paddling and bird watching to kayak fishing offshore for giant fish to white water kayaking and bombing rapids to truly extreme kayaking like we see below.
Growing up in Florida there wasn’t much opportunity for white water kayaking around here. We would make due by ‘kayak surfing’ in the meager waves off Siesta Key. Kayak fishing was also a regular activity because there’s nothing quite like getting dragged around by a huge snook or tarpon… Some summers in my adolescence though we made it up to the Carolinas for white water kayaking and that was a game changer for me. Shooting the rapids in a kayak changed my brain chemistry and I’ve been in love with it ever since.
Extreme Kayakers Ride Down Lions Bay Ditch In British Columbia
Up in British Columbia, Canada, Lions Bay Ditch is an 800-meter debris flow channel made out of concrete. It was built to mitigate flash floods by dumping debris quickly into Lions Bay.
Over the years, this has become one of the most legendary kayaking spots on earth for kayakers who like to bomb it down ditches. RedBull athlete Zack Mutton is one of those kayakers and his recent video caught my attention as they fly down the Lions Bay Ditch at speeds I’m not sure I could ever get comfortable with. Check it out:
To get a sense of what goes into all of this, check out this clip from Zack Mutton (who posted the Reels) above. He shared a clip from a kayaking trip to Iceland a little while back where he paddles off an 885′ waterfall:
Do you have it in you to attempt something like that? Let me know down in the comments section below.