Eugene Buchanan is the 14-year Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Paddler magazine and founder of Paddling Life (www.paddlinglife.net). A Business/Economics graduate of Colorado College, where he captained his NCAA lacrosse team, the former ski patrol, kayak instructor and sea kayak and raft guide also enjoys a successful freelance career, with articles published in the New York Times, Men's Journal, Sports Afield, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Adventure Journal, Ski, Skiing, Ski, Backcountry, 5280, Bike and other publications. A member of New York's Explorer's Club, he currently holds Contributing Editor positions with Primedia’s Powder and Canoe & Kayak magazines. An avid adventurer with several first descents to his credit, Buchanan’s passion for traveling, writing and paddling has taken him to more than 30 countries on six of the seven continents, from Australia and Africa to South America and Siberia. A contributor to Men’s Journal’s The Great Life anthology, his first stand-alone book, Brothers on the Bashkaus, will be released by Fulcrum Publishing in April 2007. He lives with his wife, Denise, and two daughters, Brooke, 4, and Casey, 8, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., just a block away from the Yampa River, the last remaining free-flowing tributary to the Colorado River.

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Recent reviews by Eugene Buchanan Courh River Rafting Rafting in Black Sea Region, Turkey For rafters interested in combining rapids with religion--and kayakers looking for culture--it doesn't get any better than Turkey's Class III-IV Coruh ... Rafting the Cahabon River Rafting in Guatemala For a rafting trip combining Mayan ruins, candle-lit caves and gurgling hotsprings, look no further than the jungle-lined Rio Cahabon near the Alta Verapaz ... Paddling the Sun Kosi Rafting in Nepal David Allardice, owner of New Zealand's Ultimate Descents, knows a good thing when he finds it. That's why the Sun Kosi, meaning "River of Gold," ... Paddling the Pacuare Rafting in Costa Rica For a quintessential jungle run, head to Costa Rica's parrot-filled Pacuare River, which flows into the Caribbean from the Costa Rican highlands. That's ... Paddling the Tatshenshini-Alsek Rafting in Alaska Northwest, United States To experience Jack London's Call of the Wild in the world of whitewater, head north, like he did, to Alaska and British Columbia's Alsek/Tatshenshini ... Eugene Buchanan has written 7 reviews. See more »

Eugene Buchanan has reviewed 6 countries.