I Love Paddling

Carolyn Szczepanski, a reporter for Kansas City’s The Pitch, a weekly free newspaper, recently followed the action of the Missouri River 340 Canoe and Kayak Race. The 340-mile-long race starts in Kansas City, on the western edge of Missouri, and races to St. Charles, on the State’s eastern side, near the Missouri Rivers’ confluence with […]

We enjoyed a recent column by Minnesota’s Duluth News-Tribune outdoor writer Sam Cook so much, we wanted to share it with you. Cook, on a canoe trip in Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park, climbs out of his tent on a moonlit night and steps into a different way of looking at the world. “It was possible, standing there, to imagine the […]

They nearly won it in 2003.  They did win it in 2004.  One of them won last year, too. And this year, at the 61st Weyerhaeuser AuSable River Canoe Marathon, Andy Triebold of Spring Arbor, Michigan and Steve Lajoie of Mirabel, Quebec, the pre-race favorites going into the 120-mile overnight canoe race, won it again.  The pair […]

If the names of Northern Saskatchewan’s rivers — the Churchill, the Clearwater, the Fond du Lac, the Sturgeon-weir — aren’t enough to beckon you to paddle on them, then perhaps the photos in Robin and Arlene Karpan’s book will finally send you down one in a canoe. The couple’s Northern Saskatchewan Canoe Country (Parkland Publishing, […]

Andy Triebold and Steve Lajoie paddled into the favorites’ position for this weekend’s Weyerhaeuser AuSable Canoe Marathon with a win in Spike’s Challenge, a preliminary race held over the first fraction of the AuSable Canoe Marathon’s 120 mile course. The victory dubbed Triebold of Spring Arbor, Michigan and Lajoie of Mirabel, Quebec the team to beat for 61st AuSable […]

Christopher Bell, a Jamestown, New York-based folk musician, is using a canoe to travel from gig to gig on his six-week, 11 engagment tour of his home state.  The 22-year-old “canoebadour” pushed off into the Niagara River yesterday with plans to finish his tour in New York City on September 4.  Bell intends to cross the state from west to […]

Duluth’s Northland’s Newscenter television stations have begun broadcasting a series of stories on the effects of the 1978 Boundary Waters Act on the city of Ely, Minnesota, one of the gateway communities to the million acre wilderness area.  Three decades after legislation created the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, hard feelings still exist between locals, […]

William Hafford and Eileen McCue recently paddled the length of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail in a wood-canvas canoe Hafford built himself. The recent college graduates completed the 741 mile trip in 51 days. The Kennebec Journal of Maine recently published THIS story about the pair. “It’s a very powerful thing (being in a boat […]