Archive | March, 2009

Canoecopia Opens on Friday

11 Mar

Madison, Wisconsin’s grand, late-winter canoe rendezvous is about to commence. Canoecopia, the globe’s largest paddlesport expo, opens this Friday and runs through the weekend at the Alliant Energy Center on the outskirts of Wisconsin’s capitol city. The gathering features educational presentations by some of the world’s best-known paddlers, information on trips and programs from a […]

Britain’s Great Canoe Race Nears

10 Mar

The most storied canoe race in Great Britain — the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race — is less than a month away, and already the build-up is beginning in the local media. The Telegraph has THIS story about a pair of citizen racers looking to complete the 125-mile event scheduled to begin on April […]

ACA Hosting Collegiate Canoe Championships

6 Mar

Perhaps it’s the happy memories of our college years mingled with our warm feelings about canoes, but we’re taken with the idea of collegiate teams racing one-another down rivers in canoes.  The American Canoe Association is hosting two collegiate competitions in the coming weeks and, next fall, will once again host the Collegiate Canoe and Kayak […]

Books: Michigan Rivers Less Paddled

5 Mar

Michigan paddler, beer drinker, and Detroit Tigers fan Doc Fletcher is back with a second book: Michigan Rivers Less Paddled: The Rivers, the Towns, the Taverns. The guidebook is a companion to last year’s Weekend Canoeing in Michigan, a book we reviewed HERE. Fletcher, you may remember, is the intrepid author who not only describes […]

Canada’s Quetico Turns 100 Years Old

3 Mar

Quetico Provincial Park, the renowned wilderness paddling venue in western Ontario, turns 100 years old this year. The million-plus acre park,  just across the international border from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, was first protected on April 1, 1909 as the “Quetico Forest and Game Reserve.”  In honor of the anniversary — and the fantastic paddling […]