Archive | September, 2008

A Paddle Down the Zambezi

9 Sep

We enjoyed THIS story in the Telegraph of a recent six-person paddle down the Zambezi River in Africa.  The 1,600-mile-long river flows through Angola and along the borders of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe before it empties into the Indian Ocean off Mozambique. Improbably, the river features both deadly crocodiles and meals served on linen tablecloths.

Canoeing.com’s New Recommended Route

5 Sep

We’ve just posted a new “Recommended Route” in the Canoeing.com Destination Guide that we think you might be interested in. Our own Alissa Johnson, who wrote THIS feature on the recent forest fires in Minensota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, traces a route through the BWCAW that will help paddlers better understand a landscape shaped […]

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Brothers Finish 740-Mile Beginning

4 Sep

For most people, completing a trip over the 740-mile-long Northern Forest Canoe Trail would call for some well deserved rest and relaxation. For the brothers Boone of Indianola, Iowa, however, the trip from Old Forge, New York to Fort Kent, Maine merely marked the beginning of an epic journey they’re in the midst of undertaking. […]

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Paddler Made the Army Wait

2 Sep

Jalena Baumgartner, a specialist in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is currently waiting to deploy to Iraq. Recently, however, Baumgartner made the Army do the waiting so she could compete in a canoe race. As the Harrisburg Patriot-News reports, HERE, Baumgartner nearly passed on military service when she was […]

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