I Love Paddling

Northern Minnesota’s Mesabi Daily News reports, HERE, that a contested omnibus hearing for Boundary Waters Canoe Area terror suspect Barney James Lakner, originally scheduled for this week, has been postponed until April 11. Lakner and five others were charged with 79 counts of terroristic threats, harassment, theft, and other charges in an alleged late-night camper-harassment […]

The Flint Journal in Michigan reports HERE that Chris and Joann Adolf celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with a 950-mile Mississippi River paddle. The Flushing, Michigan couple celebrated their anniversary today, but took the trip last summer. “You can’t paddle in February,” Chris Adolf told the Journal. Paddling has been a big part of the […]

Although “all four seasons” greeted competitors for the 60th Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Marathon yesterday, more than 500 competitors are expected to compete in the 125-mile-long race from rural Wiltshire to London, the Wiltshire Times reports. The race, which this year had a beer brewed in its honor and has been described as “the […]

In the Pacific Northwest each summer, tribal members from First Nations all along the coast paddle ornate canoes to a common destination for a festival of “healing, hope, happiness, honor and hospitality.” This year, as many as 80 traditional, ocean-going canoes, from a variety of canoe cultures and nations, will make a two-week journey to […]

The Honolulu-based Polynesian Voyaging Society is contemplating a three-year, around the world paddle using the group’s 62-foot-long, double-hulled voyaging canoe, the Hokule’a. If undertaken, the expedition, according to THIS Honolulu Star Bulletin story, would travel west from Hawaii through the South Pacific, pass north of Australia en route to the Suez Canal, cross the Mediterranean Sea […]

In a follow-up to a story we noted, HERE, back in December and that the British press has thoroughly enjoyed, John Darwin, the British man who was thought to have perished in a canoeing accident in 2002, has now admitted faking his death. Darwin pleaded guilty to seven counts of obtaining cash by deception and […]

The American Canoe Association, a non-profit organization representing U.S. canoeists and kayakers, is advocating reform of federal mining laws as a way of protecting America’s top paddling destinations. Citing mining activity that it says threatens such popular paddling locales as Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Idaho’s  Boise River, and Oregon’s Rogue River, the organization is urging its […]

With the Midwest enduring some of the coldest, snowiest and stormiest winters in recent memory, it’s no wonder we aren’t recreating outdoors very much these days. But in the greater scheme of things, nobody’s getting out much at all, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and […]