Learning to kayak can be intimidating. This I learned in a muddy, debris-strewn eddy on Pennsylvania’s Lower Youghigheny River. Barely a month since I’d hit my first roll, I was not yet advanced ...

The Aleut and Alutiiq people invented the kayak over 5,000 years ago. Since 90 percent of their diet came from the ocean, the kayaks were traditionally used for hunting sea life. At the Alaska Native ...