Archive | April, 2008

For the Hardy: The Bushwhacker Challenge

8 Apr

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 […]

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7,382 Chopsticks Equals 1 Canoe

7 Apr

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.

“Canoe” Links Old and New Worlds

3 Apr

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 […]

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Canada to Purchase Ely, Minnesota?

1 Apr

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 […]

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