American Whitewater Journal Schedule For Winter 2014-15

Through our 60-year history the American Whitewater Journal has seen many changes. One thing remains: our Journal is the longest running whitewater paddlesports publication in the US. It has chronicled the development from kayaks that were primarily imported from Europe, to homemade glass layups, squirt boats, the rise and fall of play boats, to our current crop of creekers suitable for high gradient exploration; it has covered the evolution of rafts from army-surplus rubber tanks to today’s self-bailing, high tech, whitewater worthy craft; and, of course, the Journal has seen the trusty aluminum canoe replaced by a host of performance canoes and C-1s and C-2s, each specific to its intended use in whitewater rivers. Our Journal has also documented the exploration of amazing whitewater runs that decades ago only lived in the realm of fantasy. If we can take anything away from this amazing 60-year trajectory, it is that our exploration of rivers and wild places where water flows downhill is always changing. And so it is at American Whitewater that one of the changes in the wind is the balancing of our traditional print media with the decline in print advertising revenues.

 

Changes are coming to the production schedule of the American Whitewater Journal. Truth is we have not had the advertising support to cover the production of our Journal for many years. And, in all honesty, the Journal is subsidized by your membership to American Whitewater (advertising revenues do not come close to meeting costs for production and mailing). Yet, the Journal is a very important tool in communicating outcomes of our stewardship efforts, achievements, insights, humor, and images from the tight knit tribe of whitewater boaters we call American Whitewater members.

 

Not to worry, the Journal that you know and love will still be published five times per year. The usual November/December issue will be combined with the January/February issue to create a winter issue. For those of you with an interest in the history of the American Whitewater Journal, check out our Journal archives. Each issue of the American Whitewater Journal, going back to the 1950s, is archived as a PDF that can be downloaded for your exploration. In these archives the history of paddling in the US unfolds in ways that provides the backstory for many paddling myths and legends. Enjoy the exploration, there is lots of good stuff there.