I Love Paddling

According to Google Maps, it’s a three-hour drive from Moundsville, West Virginia to the state capitol in Charleston.  According to Mountain State canoeists Bryant Persinger and Ronnie Howe, the trip can also be calculated as an 8-day paddle. The retired miners and former high school classmates, as the Charleston Daily Mail reports HERE, finally paddled […]

Anishinabe elders, Jon Nelson informs us in Quetico: Near to Nature’s Heart, don’t really see a distinction between the archeological past and the present when it comes to understanding a plot of land or archeological site: “All archaeological sites and the objects found within them continue to have a spiritual resonance derived from past use, […]

A 180-year-old birch bark canoe has inspired a brand new birch bark canoe. The well-traveled “Grandfather Canoe” made nearly two centuries ago by Maliseet First Nation craftsmen, thought to be the oldest extant birch bark canoe on earth, has inspired the latest canoe creation by contemporary Maliseet canoe builders. As the Telegraph-Journal in New Brunswick […]

At Canoeing.com, we’ve always wondered why it isn’t easier to purchase a canoe online. Now you can purchase Langford Canoes online at ShopCanoeing.com. No one combines the timeless craftsmanship and beauty of a canoe with the technical aspects of high performance watercraft like Langford. We’ve paddled and tested these beauties, including the hand built red […]

We enjoyed THIS recent Ottawa Citizen story (with photos) about a moms-and-sons canoe trip down Alberta’s Red Deer River. The Red Deer River, a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River, flows through southern Alberta’s badlands.  The group of five paddlers — a guide, two moms, and two teenage boys — floated from near Stettler to Drumheller on their 70-mile, four-day […]

Andrew Triebold and Steve Lajoie have done it again … and again … and, now, again. The canoe racing duo from spring Arbor, Michigan and Mirabel, Quebec, respectively, repeated as canoe racing’s Triple Crown winners with their victory in last weekend’s Classique Internationale de Canots in Quebec. As they did in 2008, Triebold and Lajoie this year won New […]

Most canoe campers are familiar with the BWCA, whether they’ve actually paddled in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area or not. A local non-profit, Wilderness Inquiry, is introducing Minneapolis and St. Paul school kids to the “UWCA” —  the Urban Wilderness Canoe Area.  It’s what they call the Mississippi River which runs between Minnesota’s Twin Cities.  The program works to put […]

To most people, it’s a border rather than an actual river.  Locals are taught to stay away from it, rather than enjoy it. In an effort to change those attitudes, Laredo, Texas’ annual RioFest celebration, scheduled for October 16 and 17, will feature a 33-mile canoe race down the Rio Grande, which, of course, defines the international border between the […]