I Love Paddling

We love paddling, and we also love good food. So a Back to Bakas post on a weekend paddling trip down California’s Russian River definitely caught our eye. A grilled tri-tip sandwich with a glass of Pinot Noir? Spiral cut hot dogs and and a specialty brew from the Russian River Brewing Company? All while […]

Elise Stolte, writer for the Edmonton Journal, is blogging about the North Saskatchewan River these days, taking a closer look at some of the ways the river is being used. A recent post caught our eye when she featured a paddler who likes to slip onto the water at night. Plus, he gets there by bike! […]

Ever been on a “Gangster Canoe Ride”? We haven’t either, but thanks to a creative new program by Minneapolis based Wilderness Inquiry, we all can. A pioneer press article this week featured an August canoe tour by Wilderness Inquiry on the Mississippi River. Ten city-dwellers rode in 24-foot canoes to learn about the history of […]

Whether or not we’ll all be lucky enough to paddle the Far North, we like knowing it exists as a canoeing destination. It’s kind of like Everest or Denali to mountain climbers. That’s why we’re keen on learning about environmental changes and what they mean for the delicate tundra landscape. Permafrost–a layer of permanently frozen […]

When I was 22 yearsold, I led a group of 5 girls to the Arctic. For six weeks we paddled the Anderson River to the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to that trip, plus years of taking 12-year-olds to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, I’ve never doubted that it’s possible (and fun) to take kids canoeing. But […]

Okay, we’ll admit it. We came to paddling through canoeing–an ago-old tradition that makes us a little suspicious of new fads. Once upon a time, kayaks seemed high tech to us so when Stand Up Paddling came along? We weren’t the earliest adopters. But an article in TIME Magazine this week covered the sport’s history […]

British kayaker Ed McKeever earned the reputation of being the Usain Bolt of kayaking at the 2012 London Olympics. And while his quiet demeanor is nothing like the attitude we’ve come to expect from the world’s fastest runner, McKeever is fast. He paddled at a rate of three strokes per second to take gold in […]

We were inspired by this video of Grant Goltz and friends as they built a replica of an 1860s Ojibwe birchbark canoe. It’s a long one, but a good one. If the video doesn’t load, you can also watch it HERE.