Every trip into the canoe country leaves me with lasting memories of the skies. Venturing into the watery lands on the Minnesota-Ontario border has left me with countless vivid images of clouds stretching across broad expanses. Brilliant or hazy blues, bold or stained whites, aquariums of every shape of cloud or vacant voids that leave [...]
There won’t be a formal trip report as I often spew out after time spent out-of-doors… Rather, in the coming weeks, expect the occasional random thoughts and memories of our blissful nine days in the Boundary Waters.
I’m gone. We’re gone. This blogger will be in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from Saturday, May 21 until Sunday, May 29. During that time I will be a long ways away from email, WordPress, the phone. Flush toilets. Enjoy these classic canoe country postcards and wish us happy trails, if you would. Cheers. [...]
I want to repeat my support and admiration for the Hudson Bay Expedition boys, who have recently begun their canoeing journey from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Hudsons Bay, retracing the path Eric Sevareid and Walter Port took in 1930, written about in the great book Canoeing With the Cree. Seventy-five years after Sevareid and Port [...]
Randy Cunningham explains the difference between the descending canoe culture and the ascending kayak culture on the web site Canadian Canoe Routes: Canoeists wear their baseball caps with the bills facing forward. Kayakers wear theirs facing backwards. A canoeist will call you a guy. A kayaker will call you a dude. A canoeist will react [...]
The little bit I posted yesterday regarding the retracing of Eric Sevareid and Walter Port’s trip from Minnesota to Hudson’s Bay was simply not enough. It’s a fascinating story to me. Here’s the basics: On May 1st, next year, two guys named Todd Foster and Scott Miller will paddle from their home in St. Cloud, [...]
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