Fairbanks Paddlers

Monday night Kayaking pool sessions started again on at Hamme Pool on January 9, 2012.  They are held every Monday night except for January 16 and February 20 until mid May. Get back in your boat and be ready to get on the rivers when they break up this spring. Meet other paddlers, and talk [...]

Last July two Fairbanks paddlers (John Morack and Tom Paragi) and a couple from Outside canoed an 80 mile loop through BIG lakes and a glacial river in Katmai National Park. They will share a 40 minute program of still and video photography including brown bears and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

Where: upstairs room [...]

The Second Annual World Famous Farthest North WOODEN BOAT RENDEZVOUS will be held August 27th, 2011!

What:
A celebration of old, wooden and homemade canoes, kayaks, umiaks, wherries and more.  All paddlers are welcome and frankly, we need to have you there to help us select our prize winners.

When:
Saturday, August 27th at 3 PM

Where:
Meet at Graehl Landing, [...]

The Denali Adventure Festival is now over two weekends: Aug. 13 and Aug. 19-20.  The Nenana River Wildwater races have been re-scheduled for August 19 and 20, eliminating the conflict with the Six-Mile Festival.
The 2011 Denali Adventure Festival events include:

Running Race
Wildwater Events
Make-Your-Own-Boat Parade
Live Music

Schedule:

Fourth Annual Mt. Healy Challenge:

Saturday, Aug. 13, 12 noon
Bison Gulch – Mile [...]

Come out and watch (or compete in) one of the craziest, most action packed extreme races of the year, with kayakers and pack rafters battling head-to-head through a difficult whitewater canyon (excellent spectator access!) and come enjoy a cold one while dancing to the live music of Big Fat Buddha at the rivers’ edge. The [...]

Lindsay Roberts and Don Kiely will lead a two day combination trip on the East Fork Chulitna River and on the Carlo Creek to McKinley Village section of the Nenana River on Saturday and Sunday, July 16-17. The East Fork day trip run puts in at mile 185 bridge on the Parks [...]

Our annual Upper Chena Paddle & Potluck will take place May 14 (next Saturday). This year we’ll paddle from 3rd bridge (mile 44 Chena Hot Springs Road) to 1st bridge (mile 37.8). The BBQ and potluck will commence after the float, on the gravel bar at 1st bridge. Meet at 3rd bridge at 10:30 am [...]

The Paddlers’ annual cleanup of the Chena River through town is scheduled for Wednesday, May 11 this year.  This will also be the first of the Wednesday evening float trips for the summer.  We will meet at Graehl Landing (just upstream from the Wendell Street bridge) at 6:15 p.m., set shuttle to the Pioneer Park [...]

Willow Creek will be the site of a river festival weekend the weekend of  June 4-5.  Alaska Kayak Academy in Wasilla and Susitna Sled and Kayak in Willow are combining efforts to host this fun whitewater weekend. Planned events include kayak, canoe, inflatable kayak and packraft races for a variety of ability levels on both [...]