I Love Paddling

Wednesday was “… a day to celebrate,” according to the environmental advocacy group American Rivers. The group cheered House passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act which designates more than 1000 miles of new National Wild and Scenic Rivers.  The House of Representatives voted 285 to 140 to pass the package which the Senate had affirmed 66 […]

A canoe lost after floods last June swept it into Wisconsin’s Root River prompted a Lake Michigan rescue search this week when it, and what appeared to be a person in the water, were spotted off-shore near Racine, Wisconsin. Coast Guard rescue helicopters from Waukegan, Illinois and Traverse City, Michigan participated in a seach along […]

The International Canoe Federation, the governing body of world competitive canoeing, plans for the first time to allow women to compete in its Olympic disciplines, the organization recently announced HERE. Women’s singles events — C-1 in the sport’s parlance — in flatwater sprinting and whitewater slalom will be an official part of the 2010 World […]

Canoeing.com has launched a User-Submitted Canoe Review Section in its Canoe Guide.  Canoeing.com invites its readers to tell one-another about what they like — and dislike — about canoes they’ve purchased or test-paddled. We kick-off the new section with Steve Retz’s review, HERE, of the Superior Sawyer Expedition, a model designed by Scott Smith.  The Expedition is a […]

Can’t wait for next Saturday’s Far North Symposium sponsored by the Minnesota Canoe Association? Well, you’re in luck today. Canoeing.com, a co-sponsor of the annual gathering of paddlers passionate about the wild waterways of Canada, recently published a trip log by symposium presenter Duane Lee. The trip log, HERE, reports on the same adventure Lee […]

The New York Times doesn’t write about canoeing that often. When it does, however, the story is very well done. Such is the case with C. J. Hughes’ piece, HERE, on paddling in the Okefenokee Swamp. The swamp — recently commemorated with a U.S. postage stamp — is a soaked 700-square-mile swath of southern Georgia […]

Madison, Wisconsin’s grand, late-winter canoe rendezvous is about to commence. Canoecopia, the globe’s largest paddlesport expo, opens this Friday and runs through the weekend at the Alliant Energy Center on the outskirts of Wisconsin’s capitol city. The gathering features educational presentations by some of the world’s best-known paddlers, information on trips and programs from a […]