CKS Launches New Website and Team blog

Chris Menges runs Dragon's Back

Lime Creek, CO

Read more at the Colorado Kayak Chronicle

We've been busy out here in Colorado launching a new website at CKS and developing the Colorado Kayak Chronicle, a blog that will inform the paddling public on events in the CKS world. If you have a moment, check out this new blog at www.coloradokayak.blogspot.com

Also, I'm happy to announce a return to the Southeast for CKS Staff and Squad member Bryan Owen and his fearless hound Sampson in November. After 5 years of the wild west we are heading home to the dirty south. I'll throw up some Southeastern shots as soon as we hit the Green.

Thanks so much to CKS for being such a great place to work! Check out their new website at www.coloradokayak.com

On Setting Out

On Setting Out


by Diane Smart


Time flows by slowly, quietly

We drift in the stream

surveying the shore,

content to pass,

but discontented still,

We change direction.


The current sweeps us away

From all we know

while we watch

those we leave behind

slip away

Their images grow dim.


Ahead the bright, churning water

Approaches, and fear

of what might happen

of what must happen

of what might not happen

As we are swept along.


The thrill of the ride comes

From knowing

there are no rapids

without rocks and

no ride worth taking

Without risks.