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Travel Diaries #31 – SUP to Summit
Written by Jess Davies /
FROM SUP TO SUMMIT
It has been almost a year since the Red Paddle Co Compact 9’6”, the world’s most transportable inflatable SUP, hit waterways across the world. This full sized paddle board folds down to half the size of a conventional inflatable SUP and since then we’ve loved seeing the increasingly epic and breath taking remote SUP adventures the Compact has enabled intrepid paddlers to take on.
We caught up with photographer and adventurer Jim Martinello to find out how he put the Compact through its paces exploring Canadas Tantalus Mountains.
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