I Love Paddling

If the winner of the Daytona 500 drives on Goodyear tires, you expect to hear about it. If Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human, races to his gold medals in Puma shoes, you expect the folks at Puma will let you know about that, too. So is it all that surprising that the folks at Chomarat, a South […]

In an age of four-dollar gasoline, finding exciting, inspiring places to paddle close to home is more important than ever. Greg Breining, writing for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, found that the St. Croix River, an hour-and-a-half from his home in the bustling Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, offered the same wilderness values of farther-away, more remote […]

Howes Pass may not be a familiar name to many, but its discovery 200 years ago by Canadian fur trader and explorer David Thompson was critical to the fur trade. Knowledge of the pass made it possible to paddle from the heart of Canada to the Pacific Ocean at a time when the fur trade […]

A Minnesota Conservation Volunteer article on the moose of northeastern Minnesota recently caught our eye. A DNR study has confirmed what, until now, had been rumor and speculation; the area’s moose herd is in decline. Of the study’s radio-collared moose, 21% perished. That’s nearly double the national average, and over half of them died from […]

We enjoyed Paul H. Heinz’s recent story in the Boston Globe about his canoe journey along the 740 mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Traveling from Old Forge, NY to Fort Kent, Maine, Heinz bills it as a paddle through time. Yet as we follow him through the communities that line the trail, his story quickly […]

Thanks to cooler temperatures, more precipitation and shorter days the Forest Service has lifted fire restrictions in the blowdown area of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Campers may now use campfires, charcoal, and wood-burning camp stoves, and the Border Route Trail system and the Kekekabic Trail have re-opened for public use. As always, the […]

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.

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 […]