I Love Paddling

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 […]

The “Grandfather Canoe,” a birch-bark canoe built in the 1820s by Maliseet First Nation craftsmen, will remain in Canada for now, according to THIS report in the Daily Gleaner of New Brunswick. The canoe, which is the property of the Irish National University, Galway but has been on display at the New Brunswick Museum in St. […]

Was it just us or did you watch last week’s PBS We Shall Remain episode titled Tecumseh’s Vision about the Shawnee leader and his village at the confluence of the Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers and ask: I wonder what the paddling is like there nowadays? Thanks to the Ric Burns film’s landscape-caressing aerial shots, the […]

We were pleased to see Minnesota’s Rochester Post-Bulletin publish THIS story about reporter David Lind’s paddle down the Cannon River to the Mississippi. We’re partial to the Cannon, we must admit, since a member of the Canoeing.com team lives in the Cannon Watershed and considers the state-designated Wild and Scenic River his home-waters. Lind describes […]

The University of Nevada-Reno, the 2008 National Concrete Canoe Champions, were upset in regional competition last week by last year’s National Championship runners-up, the University of California.  The Nevada-Reno student paper — the Nevada Sagebrush — reported on the contest, HERE. Competing at the Mid-Pacific Regional of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 22nd Annual National Concrete […]

The Gunflint Green Up is right around the corner … and we don’t just mean spring-time greenery return to Northeastern-most Minnesota. The Second Annual Gunflint Green Up, an event designed to help replant and nurture trees on the site of the 2007 Ham Lake Fire along Minnesota’s Gunflint Trail, is accepting registration for the May 1-3 […]

We enjoyed the video and story HERE, from the Bangor Daily News, reporting on Maine’s 43rd Annual Kenduskeag Stream Race. The event is a wild 16.5 mile paddle from Kenduskeag to Bangor.  The race includes two mandatory portages at dams that span the waterway, and an optional one at a cascade known as Six Mile Falls. There are also some […]

… don’t do what THIS guy did. Police have arrested an alleged canoe thief in Vermont after the canoe’s original owner spotted him driving with the boat in the back of a truck. (Mistake #1) The original owner contacted police via cell phone and then followed the driver down what turned out to be a […]