I Love Paddling

Back in May, HERE, we told you about recent high school graduates Sean Bloomfield and Colton Witte who were attempting to replicate Erc Sevareid and Walter Port’s 1930 canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Sevareid, of course, made the trip famous in his book Canoeing with the Cree. Bloomfield and Witte have made remarkable […]

Thanks to a mention in the New York Times’ recent “31 Places to Go This Summer” story, HERE, a Manitoba outfitter’s unique blending of canoeing and yoga is causing a stir. Northern Soul, a Winnipeg-based canoe and adventure outfitter, offers a weekend package of canoe camping and yoga. Clients paddle to yoga-friendly campsites to practice […]

Jay Andrew Olson, 20, of Ely, Minnesota, became the fourth defendant to plead guilty to charges stemming from an August, 2007 incident where six local moterboaters allegedly terrorized campers in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. You can read a comprehensive story on the case HERE, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Olson, as the operator […]

Let’s kick off the month with a story . . . New Hampshire Magazine’s Jack Noon, who writes mostly about “history, fishing,  or local humor” offers THIS rambling story about his $5.00, “flatwater” canoe. The story will appear in the anthology, “Live Free or Croak: a Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire,” due out later this summer.

Have you ever wanted to know more about the people who design the canoes we paddle? Have you wondered what combination of skills and interests it takes to envision and actualize a new canoe design? We at Canoeing.com have, so we recently spent some time with Bob Brown, who has designed boats for Wenonah, Bell, […]

The Yukon Territory community of Whitehorse is already the starting point for a 400-mile canoe race. Apparently, though, that’s not long enough for everybody in the community. Recently, local organizers announced plans for a 2009 event that would have racers paddle 1000 miles — from Whitehorse to the Alaska Pipeline Bridge on the Dalton Highway […]

Blame it on the weather. The Outdoor Industry Association recently reported that, while outdoor gear sales rose 9% in the first quarter of 2008, sales of canoes, paddlesport gear, and kayaks was off an unspecified amount over the same period. Industry analysts blame the unseasonably cool spring experienced by much of the country for the slow […]

If you’ve spent any time paddling in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — or its Canadian companion Quetico Provincial Park — you’re aware there’s a fair amount of portaging that comes with any trip. For Ladysmith, Wisconsin’s Jim Kurz, however, there’s apparently not enough portaging for his tastes. He’s taken it upon himself, according […]