I Love Paddling

Maine’s Bangor Daily News, HERE, remembers the now-defunct Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club in an interesting story about turn-of-the-20th-Century recreation. According to the Wayne Reilly piece, the Conduskeag Canoe and Country Club more closely resembled a contemporary country club or a leather-chairs-and-brandy-snifters men’s club than what we’d recognize as a modern canoe club. Instead of […]

We’re fond of the notion of paddling in the wake of history.  Hop in a canoe, push out into the water, allow your imagination to drift, and it doesn’t take much to envision the people who traveled across the water before you — natives, explorers, traders, or settlers. The New York Times’ Christopher Shaw recently retraced Samuel de Champlain’s […]

Team Bradley, winners of the Na Wahine O Ke Kai Canoe Race for the fourth straight year, established a new record with their victory last weekend in the 30th annual, all-women’s, open-ocean outrigger canoe race between the Hawaiian islands of Molokai and Oahu. The team crossed the 42-mile Kaiwi Channel which separates the two islands […]

Do you remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer, learning that the New York City Marathon is a few days off, slaps himself on the forehead and says, “I keep forgetting to enter that!” Well, if you mean to enter the first annual Yukon 1,000 Canoe and Kayak race — at 1,000 miles, the world’s longest […]

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 […]