I Love Paddling

For most of us, our canoe trips are taken on the cleaner, wilder waterways that grace our continent. For reporter Colin McDonald of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, his paddle down Washington’s Duwamish river, a federal Super Fund site, was a voyage into the polluted heart of the beast.  As a part of the paper’s extensive, three-part […]

William Schwener, 13, wants canoeing and environmental legend Ernest Oberholtzer to be properly remembered. The Davenport, Iowa boy scout, took on the responsibility of restoring the grave-site of Oberholtzer as part of a eagle scout project. “Ober,” as the Boundary Waters and Quetico advocate was known, was a native of Davenport and is buried there. […]

If you’re a Hollywood great, you earn a star on the sidewalk. If you’re a football winner, you wear a Super Bowl ring. If you’re a British canoe race celebrating your 60th anniversary, though … … someone brews a special beer in your honor. The Wadworth Brewery in Devizes, England will brew a special ale […]

Three weeks ago, Canoeing.com founder Tim Eaton and his ornithologist son Muir paddled into a die-off of some 6,000 scaup during an annual canoeing and duck hunting trip on Lake Winnibigoshish in north central Minnesota. The story of their sad discovery and of the issues surrounding the beleagued duck are featured in our Nature & […]

Despite two straight years in which wildfires burned large swaths of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, further large fires in the area are likely in the future, the Duluth News-Tribune reports HERE. The popular canoeing destination suffered a massive blow-down of trees in 1999 — 275,000 acres of forest was severely damaged in the storm — which […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently ran THIS story about a deer hunt in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota. Outdoor writer Doug Smith joined his friend Steve Piragis, an Ely, Minnesota outfitter, for a canoe-based deer hunt in the 1,029,000 acre wilderness. “I wanted to go deer hunting, but get away from other hunters […]

In what appears to be an effort to differentiate itself from British Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways, owned by mogul-adventurer and current Outside magazine cover subject Richard Branson, has renewed its commitment to allowing adventurers to travel with their equipment … including hang-gliders, surfboards, kayaks, and, yes, canoes. British Airways recently disallowed such items as checked baggage […]

We were taken by a recent art exhibition that included the papier-mâché canoe pictured here. Vancouver, British Columbia artist Gathie Falk constructed the canoe as part of her recent show at the Equinox Gallery there. The 14-foot long canoe was constructed with multiple layers of papier-mâché and is painted off-white. Falk’s vessel plays off of […]