If a river doesn’t run by your door, and if a place on the lake would bust your budget, you’re gonna have to take your boat on the road before you can dip your blade. Yet car-topping and allied subjects often get short shrift in the paddling press. No longer, though! I’ve talked about these vital topics before, but now I’ve put it all together in one place—and added a little more, besides. So before you head out to the put-in, you might want to find out about “Getting There.” Oh, a hint—the picture to the left shows how NOT to do it! Read more…

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Summer is vacation time, and at some point in their lives, most paddlers dream of taking that one Big Trip to somewhere exotic. For canoeists Ed Fletcher and Brenna Trent, the Big Trip has become a reality. With two friends they begin their trip of a lifetime on a wilderness river in northern Ontario, but right from the start things aren’t quite right. They expected risks, even a hint of danger, but they couldn’t have guessed just how dangerous life would become—and the dangers weren’t natural, in any sense of the word.

Looking for a good read to carry you through the dog days of summer? Do you like adventure and thrills? How about a novel that follows a group of paddlers as they explore for traces of the long-lost Henry Hudson? Then read Trip of a Lifetime, a paddlesport adventure story that carries the reader from the waters of New York state to Hudson Bay by way of northern Ontario. It’s a journey you’ll never forget. Read more…

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