I Love Paddling

Has paddling downstream gotten a little old for you? Is paddling slowly just too, well, slow? Hankering for a portage that’s seven miles long? If so, the Bushwhacker Challenge on Michigan’s Pine and Chippewa Rivers might be just the change of pace you’re looking for. Held in honor of uber-paddler Verlen Kruger — and to […]

Let’s just let the picture speak its thousand words … Click HERE to see Shuhei Ogawara’s canoe made from the 7,382 chopsticks he collected from his office cafeteria. The boat should float equally well on water or soy sauce.

While a prevailing theory holds that humans initially populated North America by walking from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge, a canoe appears to help confirm the route. The word “canoe,” that is. Edward Vajda, a linguistics professor at Western Washington University, has found similarities between the word for canoe in the ancient Ket language of Siberia and in the […]

Figuring the first day of April was a good day to break the news — or kick-off a new marketing campaign — the Ely, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce announced that Canada intends to purchase the small northern Minnesota town which is a gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. You can read the media announcement HERE. The […]

If you made a back-of-an-envelope list of premier North American paddling destinations, we’re guessing New York City wouldn’t exactly top the list. But now, with the launch by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation of a 28 landing canoe and kayak “Water Trail” around the five boroughs of New York City, you […]

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 […]