I Love Paddling

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 […]

We enjoyed THIS story in the Telegraph of a recent six-person paddle down the Zambezi River in Africa.  The 1,600-mile-long river flows through Angola and along the borders of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe before it empties into the Indian Ocean off Mozambique. Improbably, the river features both deadly crocodiles and meals served on linen tablecloths.

We’ve just posted a new “Recommended Route” in the Canoeing.com Destination Guide that we think you might be interested in. Our own Alissa Johnson, who wrote THIS feature on the recent forest fires in Minensota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, traces a route through the BWCAW that will help paddlers better understand a landscape shaped […]

For most people, completing a trip over the 740-mile-long Northern Forest Canoe Trail would call for some well deserved rest and relaxation. For the brothers Boone of Indianola, Iowa, however, the trip from Old Forge, New York to Fort Kent, Maine merely marked the beginning of an epic journey they’re in the midst of undertaking. […]

Jalena Baumgartner, a specialist in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is currently waiting to deploy to Iraq. Recently, however, Baumgartner made the Army do the waiting so she could compete in a canoe race. As the Harrisburg Patriot-News reports, HERE, Baumgartner nearly passed on military service when she was […]

Three days into a 1979 canoe trip intended to take Dennis Weidemann and three companions from western Minnesota to York Factory on Hudson’s Bay, disaster struck. Rounding a bend on the Otter Tail River, Weidemann and his bowman were face-to-face with a fallen tree straining the cold, fast water for three-quarters of the river’s width. […]