Eugene Buchanan was raised in Boulder, Colo., and still has the Birkenstocks to prove it. After serving as sports editor of the Telluride Times, he took a reporting position for the Denver Business Journal, which he quit two years later to kayak rivers in Ecuador and Peru. He took the reigns of Paddler magazine in 1992, and moved it to Steamboat Springs, where he served as its Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. Fourteen years later it was time for something new. Hence Paddlinglife.net, where he brings the same fire and passion for the written word to paddling’s only true E-Zine. A member of New York’s Explorer Club, his penchant for traveling, writing and paddling has taken him to more than 30 countries. His publishing credits include the New York Times, Men's Journal, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Powder, Backcountry, Bikeand other national publications. Look for his first book, Brothers on the Bashkaus, to be released by Fulcrum Press (www.fulcrumbooks.com) in April.
Travis Gainsley | Sales
Travis began his professional diving career in 1993, when he was hired by Professional Diving Schools of Florida. After six years of teaching and managing the retail facility there, he moved on to join Scuba Diving Magazine in '99 where he worked until 2005 as a Territory Manager. Following his love for the mountains, Travis moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he founded 3-Wire Media Group in 2007. With clients such as Steamboat Magazine, The Mountain Wine Festival Series, PaddlingLife.net and Rocky Peak Productions, Travis brings a wealth of print, online and event sales experience to the table.
David M. Harlan | Web Guy
David Harlan is Paddling Life’s Web master. Hailing from the cheese curd capitol of Wisconsin, he also has a long standing love affair with canoes. And music. Before moving to Steamboat Springs, he was a professional musician, playing the bars and eateries of Madison before taking his act out west. Living in a ski town, there are still plenty of drunk co-eds willing to attend his gigs at venues around town. He picked up whitewater kayaking when he made the move out west and has since poured his energy into the sport with the same intensity he uses when learning a new Jack Johnson verse.
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Heard in the Eddy
"Early on that day we came across a fresh dead body that was still in neoprene and had been buried under rocks...it showed us just how delicate life is. Later on we found out that there were two dead in the same pile of rocks..."
--Sam Sutton on paddling Siberia's Argut River in July
"To leave a patient on the side of a river while you get your gear out of the car and set up a rescue system you read about in a book is simply not good policy"
--Duke Bradford, owner of Arkansas Valley Adventures on the rescue of a 13 yr. old girl from Clear Creek on 6/17/10. A rafting guide employed by Bradford was arrested for interfering (read=assisting) with the rescue.
I was a god-damned poster child for bad judgment...dumb, but what can you do when you're hypnotized by a force of nature?"
--North Fork Payette pioneer Doug Ammons on being lured in by record high water to come out of Class V retirement and paddle the Lower Five at a record 9,000 cfs (and subsequently swim).
"My initial goal was to not embarrass myself."
--Tao Berman, after winning his first-ever ramp competition, at the Red Bull Canal Crashers Big Air Contest during Richmond, Va.'s Dominion Riverrock Festival.
If you don't sit in the right place, you'll sink." --72-year-old Leo Swinimer (as told to the Wall Street Journal) on paddling his 600-lb. pumpkin in Nova Scotia's annual Windsor-West Hants Pumpkin Regatta.
