Paddling
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"If you would know a man, observe his garage. It is a window to his soul" - Anonymous
Standup canoeing
Standup paddling is all the craze. Why not do it in a canoe? That's what I've been doing for years and it's great. Who knows, maybe it'll be the next big thing.
Where are we?
The afternoon is overcast and dank. A yellow, rusted metal swing gate stops motorized traffic from crossing the railroad tracks. To access Lake Superior's Coldwell Peninsula on the Canadian north shore, my husband, Lee, and I unload our tandem kayak from our roof rack onto a two-wheel cart, randomly tossing our food and equipment inside the boat's seats. Shoving a stick into the kayak's front handhold, we pull our watercraft a short distance down an overgrown path to the lakeshore near the ghost town of Port Coldwell.
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- A return to Isle Royale
- On a quest for the ideal local canoe wilderness: Backyard Boundary Waters
- The contender & the champ
- A modern-day voyageur
- A paddler's paper & ink dreams
- The win-loss record for Midwest paddlers
- To each his own
- Ontario's Lake Superior shoreline
- What's in a river's name?
- Rendezvous on the Root River
- A Sunday excursion
- Quetico dreams: Annual visits but year-round longing
- Peshtigo River to host national championships
- Paddling strokes and partners
- A caribou sniffed my tent
- Remembered & re-meandered
- Milwaukee by paddle and pedal (1)
- Mastering the mighty Menominee
- Ladies first
- Pilgrimage to Trout Bay
- Improvements in the prairie state
- Freshwater face
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