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Welcome to Behind The Travels forth episode of our collaborative series, What’s in my Dry Bag. This series will explore the gear that some of the top paddlers... and instructors from around the province carry with them on their paddling ventures! Each episode will be starring a new guest paddler, completely unique and personalized to them. Without further a due I am stoked to announce our forth episode of our collaborative series, with SUP paddler and instructor Reta Boychuk! Reta is the founder of her new paddling collective, CAN RVR SUP. She is a stellar paddlers and advanced flat water and river one SUP instructor. Together with her stellar sponsors, she put her love for the water into the community. We hope you enjoy this episode with Reta in, What’s in My Dry Bag! CANRVRSUP: https://www.canrvrsup.ca/#/ Social Media: @CANRVRSUP Instagram https://instagram.com/canrvrsup?igshid=1nybgh1q4t29u @CANRVRSUP Facebook https://www.facebook.com/canrvrsup/ @RETA.SENDS Instagram https://instagram.com/reta.sends?igshid=gz1yft1m9bwz Reta’s Dry Bag of Choice: Ocoee Watershed Dry Bag https://www.amazon.ca/Watershed-Ocoee-Duffel-B//B00IKT8BZ4 What’s inside; Medical Kit https://www.canadiantire.ca//adventure-sportsman-first-aid Emergency Tarp/ Blanket https://www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com//survive-outdoors-l/ Repair kit; Spare Fin screws, fin keys, patches, vinyl adhesive stickers, tuck tape, and a wrench Hockey Tape Sunscreen LifeStraw https://www.lifestraw.com/products/lifestraw In Reach Communication System https://buy.garmin.com/en-CA/CA/p/561269 Kula Cloth https://kulacloth.com Lynx OGT Raven Headlamp https://www.lynxogt.com Toque Heat Packs; 2 per person Powder Coconut Water Ginger Candies RX Nut Butters Thank you for watching todays episode! Stay tuned as next week we will be exploring what kayak angler, Watt Andy, has in his dry bag!

We just dropped Episode 18 of the Eddy Out Podcast!! This is another special birthday episode or "bday-sode as a tribute to a fellow riverwoman and friend, Re...ta Boychuk. For those that don’t know this fireball, Reta is a wave of stoke in the SUP world. She is the first female Paddle Canada River Instructor Trainer and cofounder of RETA-SUPS now formally called CAN RVR SUP. You will find her near any river competing, teaching and trying to get more people on the water. Reta talks about her story, her passion for teaching, sending new rivers and her new business venture CANRVRSUP. A collective of instructors providing Western Canada with leading edge paddle board programming, skills and drills techniques and guided multi-day adventures. I fucking loved this conversation and know you will too! Click the links below or subscribe to your favorite podcast app to listen! We hope you enjoy! Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com//eddy-out-with-na/id1538365966 Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com//aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjY Simplecast: https://eddy-out-with-natali-zollinger.simplecast.com//ret

Coming To You This Thursday! This Thursday at 7pm, I am stoked to be launching the forth episode of our collaborative series, What’s in My Dry Bag! Join us wit...h our new guest, SUP instructor and stellar paddler, Reta Boychuk! Reta If from Cochrane, Alberta and is a stellar individual in the community. She is always down to menotour people and share her passion for the water. Reta is the founder of her amazing paddling collective CAN RVR SUP. With her group, let’s just say they take, living the adventure, to another level. Please join us this Thursday, March 11 at 7pm for our new episode with Reta Boychuk! Cheers!

THE RIVER OF NO RETURN, by Reta Boychuk Some of her most treasured memories are paddling on the Main Salmon River in Idaho in 2013. This was her first raft as...sisted multi-day tour where she committed to being on board or at least she tried! Reta shares her most vivid stories with us from this trip. At the end of September we pulled a Main Salmon River Permit. 8 days, 80 miles, of easy paddling or so we thought. A little SUP’ing, a little rafting and a little fun... As we’re getting loaded to head to the river there's rumours of a big mudslide upstream on the Main Salmon. We were expecting clear low water at the put-in, instead we had raging chocolate milk. I had never seen chocolate milk that wasn’t in a carton before! It was the most insane thick, silty and loud river I had ever stood in. The clear Middle Fork Salmon River coming in was low and clear compared to the one we were putting in on, it was a stark contrast. My jitters were heightened, even though I started the trip super proud wearing clothes instead of my drysuit. This was soon rectified as I rode a floppy taco down the river swimming more than I paddled sometimes. My inflatable sup pump broke at the start, having to use a raft pump with no gauge on it we attempted to fill my SUP to the PSI it required, which still wasn’t high enough. As soon as the group loads and pushes off we hit a massive wave train at the start, full commitment paddle I send it standing! All I remember from the first rapid after falling in is, laughing. Laughing so hard that I couldn’t get back on my board because I was so happy and having the best time on the biggest waves of my life. Too much fun being in warm chocolate milk. As I made my way back on my board it was the start of an epic adventure. I couldn’t stand the whole way so I canoed while kneeling employing my canoe skills to paddle around obstacles. Picture kneeling and paddling a saggy thermarest on the river, that’s essentially what my board was. I swam most of the rapids, I cleaned a few. Pulling over at the Barth Hot Springs and soaking on the river's edge in hot water was an unusual paddling experience I will remember forever. After splashing through Black Creek Rapid on my sloppy paddle board it was nice to relax and melt into hot springs. On the layover days we had fun, this was the first time our raft crew had paddled on the river with a SUP. Our one camp on a big sandy beach had everyone taking turns playing in a giant eddy on the paddle board. Hiking upstream and floating down on the SUP repeatedly similar to tobogganing in winter, except this was a whole lot warmer and more fun! My hope is to provide more of these epic adventures up here in Canada, with numerous trips planned in the future. Catch her at @retasends on Instagram to follow her epic personal adventures and @canrvrsup to see the stoke being spread on the water through courses offered this year. Reach out to us today! Let us help you find your feet on the water. Reta Boychuk Founder CANRVRSUP 1 (825) 994-3SUP (787) [email protected] www.canrvrsup.ca