I Love Paddling

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 […]

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 […]

The U.S. Canoe and Kayak Team is back on deck in London this week: kayaker Carrie Johnson races in the K1 500-meter sprint early Tuesday morning. If you’re an East Coast morning person, you can watch it live online HERE at 5:07 a.m. eastern time. A three-time Olympian, Johnson trained for the London games in […]

After two days of slalom racing at the 2012 Olympic Games, U.S. Canoe and Kayak athletes put in a good show but failed to advance to semi-finals in the slalom competition: U.S. Canoe and Kayak Slalom Results On Sunday, July 19, three-time Olympian Scott Parsons (Men’s K1) and two-time Olympian Casey Eichfield (Men’s C1) narrowly […]

With the Olympic Ceremonies mere hours away, pre-Olympic coverage has tweeted about everything from the silliest banned items for spectators (leave those wide-brimmed hats at home) and speculation about who will light the torch (the money’s on Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile). But we’ve got our eye on a few of the Olympic […]

  Did you know that Minnesota has the oldest and largest system of water trails in the country? Governor Mark Dayton has declared Saturday the first annual State Water Trails Day in Minnesota to celebrate the many ways Minnesotans can get out on the water. Want to join in the fun? The Department of Natural […]

A new exhibit at the Canada Science and Technology museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, celebrates a man we associate with the art of canoeing, rather than technology: canoeing legend, filmmaker and photographer Bill Mason.

We’ve always liked those Canadians. In 2007, more than 1 million of our neighbors to the north voted the canoe one of the Seven Wonders of Canada. To celebrate, the Canadian Canoe Museum in Petersborough, Ontario established National Canoe Day. Now, June 26 is reserved for the annual appreciation of the age-old watercraft.