Archive | May, 2009

Book Review: Kids Gone Paddlin’

11 May

In an era where kids are spending less and less time outdoors, author Tom Watson tried to do something about it. He wrote a childrens’ guide to canoeing and kayaking called Kids Gone Paddlin’: The Young Paddler’s Guide to Having More Fun Outdoors. The book is a fun, colorful primer aimed at pre-teens that teaches […]

Becoming a Paddling Family — It’s Never Too Soon

8 May

Canoeing.com has just published a new feature on the efforts some northern Minnesota outfitters are making to help more families become paddling families.  You can find the feature HERE, in our Beginner’s Guide. Outfitters from along the Gunflint Trail — an important Boundary Waters Canoe Area gateway — are pushing the idea that kids are […]

Wilderness News Goes Online

7 May

The Quetico Superior Foundation’s Wilderness News newsletter, which some 16,000 paddlers and other lovers of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Quetico Provincial Park have enjoyed in its paper form for years, has launched an online companion — Wilderness News Online. Regular readers of Wilderness News and close readers of its new web service will […]

Safe Paddling Tips as the Season Commences

4 May

The beginning of May is a good time to talk about canoe safety; As the weather warms and the rivers run, it pays to be safety-smart as we head back onto the water. Howard Myerson of the Grand Rapids Press offered THIS fine column recently about canoeing safety.  He knows whereof he speaks, having once flipped his boat above […]