Kayaking fastest growing outdoors sport

[SF Chronicle RSS Feed - Tom Stienstra]

On a calm summer eve with a benign tide, it’s a euphoric moment to paddle a kayak along the San Francisco waterfront and under the Golden Gate Bridge. On bright summer morn, it’s ecastatic to emerge from Richardson Bay past Belvedere on San Francisco Bay and paddle across Raccoon Strait en route to Angel Island. Trips like this – exhilarating and low-cost that most anybody can do — has made flat-water kayaking the fastest-growing segment in the outdoors in the Bay Area and Northern California. Sales, rentals and guided trips are booming again this summer. You can rent a kayak for an hour, with all the equipment you need, for [...]

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