Meet the Canoe-Racing Texans Tackling The Arctic’s Toughest Passage BY JEFF MOAG | JUNE 10, 2022 All this weekend and into next week, West Hansen and Jeff Wueste will be paddling their [...]
I’ve started the 260-mile Texas Water Safari canoe race 25 times and completed it 21 times, with numerous category wins and two overall wins. Expedition partner, Jeff Wueste, and I have [...]
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West Hansen is a member of the Explorers Club and has led two landmark expeditions down the entire Amazon and Volga Rivers. He has completed 20 260-mile Texas Water Safari races, including [...]
The Arctic Cowboys, a crew of Texas-based paddlers who will attempt to kayak the Northwest Passage this summer, have added a fourth athlete to their team – 31-year-old Rebekah Feaster.
West Hansen wriggled into a dry suit Monday, squeezing his head and wrists through tight gaskets designed to keep out water, then snapped a neoprene spray skirt into place before climbing into [...]
The 3rd Coast Cowboys Epic Kayak Journey will launch this Wednesday, May 20th from Boca Chica at the Mexican border and paddle Epic 18x kayaks 370 miles along the entire Texas coastline to the [...]
West Hansen pulled his kayak up the boat ramp at Walter Umphrey State Park in Port Arthur at about 5 p.m. Monday, stepped around a dead fish and greeted the small crowd of family members gathered [...]
After sleeping near the ferry landing on Boliver Peninsula, the team got started around 7:30 am. They stopped roughly every 10 miles, taking a break from the strong headwinds they’ve experienced [...]
They are inching closer to Sabine Pass every day. Today, found the team facing 10-13 mph headwinds all the way along Galveston Island. It certainly made for slow going.
