I Love Paddling

Defending champions Andrew Triebold and Steve Lajoie are set to defend their title at the 62nd Annual Weyerhaeuser AuSable River Canoe Marathon this weekend. Triebold, of Spring Arbor, Michigan and Lajoie of Mirabel, Quebec, who won last year’s race by nearly a half hour, put some suspense into the registration process this year, signing up to […]

We enjoyed the video above, by the Burlington Free Press, in which a flotilla of birch-bark canoes commemorates Samuel de Champlain’s 1609 exploration of the lake.  Champlain was the first European to see the lake that now bears his name. There’s also a news story from the folks at WCAX, HERE, about the birthday paddle. Champlain’s […]

In Canoeing.com’s newest feature story, contributor Phil Brown describes a paddling route in the Adirondack Park Preserve that takes paddlers from Little Tupper Lake to Lake Lila in a two-day paddle. Brown’s route is unique because it tests the bounds of New York State’s navigable waters law, staying on waters that flow through private land within the park.  Brown, a […]

One of us here in the Canoeing.com office has some vacation days coming in August.  Funny thing, though, he’s not exactly sure where he’s going to paddle those days. THIS recent Vancouver Sun story, however, put Canada’s Athabasca River on the hit list.  The river runs from the foot of the Columbia Glacier in Jasper […]

On the first day of June, Tony Ebdon and Chris Petrie pushed their canoe onto the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, beginning a 1,500 mile trip to Churchill, Manitoba. The pair is paddling to raise money for “The Big Wild,” an initiative to celebrate and conserve Canada’s wild and natural areas. When the paddlers passed […]

We stumbled across Dan Crowley’s Latitude Somewhere, Longitude Who Cares blog recently.  Crowley, the sports editor of the Falmouth Massachusetts Enterprise, writes about wilderness travel on the site. Last week, HERE, he posted a nice survey of books written about Maine’s Allagash River and its environs.  The Allagash runs through what many consider the wildest patch of land […]

Here’s one that caught our attention … A 14-year-old boy spends time refurbishing an old aluminum canoe.  A day before he’s about to push off with it into the water for the very first time, his canoe goes missing. After his mother places an ad in the local paper requesting its return, someone steps forward with the boat, agreeing […]

A paddling expedition that pushed off today will celebrate the 100th birthdays of the Superior National Forest and Quetico Provincial Park. The Heart of the Continent Partnership, a coalition of stakeholder organization within and surrounding Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario and the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, is organizing a canoe expedition across the region, […]