I Love Paddling

David Pelly, author of the 2008 book The Old Way North, will headline this weekend’s Wilderness Canoe Symposium in Toronto.  The 24th-annual gathering of wilderness and arctic paddlers is sponsored by Canada’s Wilderness Canoe Association. Pelly’s presentation, entitled “The Old Way North – stories of the northern landscape surrounding Oberholtzer and Magee’s 1912 route to […]

We enjoyed the video above and its accompanying Washington Post news story, HERE, and slide show, HERE, of members of a Washington, D.C. webelos den who visited the Patuxent Small Craft Center in Solomons, Maryland to learn the finer points of canoe-building The pack, which hails from the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, helped craftsmen associated with the Calvert […]

The Minnesota Canoe Association’s Far North Symposium will stress budget-friendly northern paddling trips when expedition paddlers from the Upper Midwest gather on Saturday, March 28 in St. Paul. Strained pocketbooks and rising aviation prices to remote areas, organizers stress, need not keep hardy paddles home this summer. Presenters at the gathering, organized by arctic paddling […]

“There’s so many drunks out. People don’t think it’s safe to be on the rivers Friday, Saturday and Sunday.” So said Missouri Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Chair Matt Bartle, according to THIS Springfield News-Leader story.  His committee recently heard testimony in support of a bill which would ban beer kegs, styrofoam coolers, Jell-O […]

We know only a fraction of our readers reside in Michigan, but we thought Howard Meyerson’s recent column in the Grand Rapids Press had appeal beyond the boundaries of the Wolverine State. Meyerson reports, HERE, that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is looking into the idea of requiring Michigan residents to register their canoes […]

This isn’t the first time Polynesian voyaging canoes have caught our fancy — we’ve talked about them HERE and HERE before.  Still, THIS comprehensive Reuters story about the renaissance in traditional Polynesian canoe-seafaring warranted another post on the subject, we thought.  Prompting the Michael Perry story is news that a Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail […]

Before 2008 grows too small in the rear-view mirror, we wanted to properly note the Florida Keys Paddling Atlas by Bill and Mary Burnham. The beautiful and informative guide book was the winner in the Outdoor Adventure Guidebook category of the 2008 National Outdoor Book Awards. While the Keys are considered more of a sea-kayak […]

We enjoyed THIS story in Missouri’s Springfield News-Leader about a group of paddlers who took advantage of a warm January day to steal a trip down Arkansas’ Buffalo River in winter. With weather in the upper 60s, the group floated a 10 mile stretch of the Buffalo National River from Ponca to Kyle’s Landing. Prepared […]