
‘It’s All Home Water’ Series Makes Case for Pristine Boundary Waters
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate writes a visual love story to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It remains under the looming threat of a foreign copper-nickel mine.
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate writes a visual love story to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It remains under the looming threat of a foreign copper-nickel mine.
Two major PFD brands — MTI and Mustang Survival — are merging to bring more paddlesports gear to the market.
This dual-flotation PFD made our 2019 Gear of the Year list for its unique design and performance on the water — here’s why.
‘The Canyon by Canoe’ is an ode to both the history of the canoeing and the crazy future the sport holds.
Greenland-style paddles use a narrow blade to propel canoes efficiently. Our writer put the Akiak by Gearlab to the test for this review.
You might not put a lot of thought into your canoe paddle. But plenty of others did back in the day — and the results are paddles far more comfortable and complex than you realize.
With a thin, translucent skin and weighing barely more than a loaded backpack, the Wilderness Traveler exemplifies what it meant to ‘be out on the water.’
A DIY conservation effort, this summer two men embody the ‘packing it out’ ethos by bagging and hauling debris each day.
‘To paddle is to plug into the energies of the place, the land, the air, the water, the ancestors, the children who are yet to be born.’
This dugout canoe starts as the trunk of a tree. From there, builders scrape, chop, and shape a beautiful and functional canoe by hand.
We combed the largest paddle-sports expo in the country to find some of the most exciting new canoe, kayak, and SUP products for 2017.
Before kevlar and royalex, there was a surge in the manufacture and performance of American-made canoes. All thanks to a ‘new’ watercraft material.
Two women broke a long-distance canoeing across the United States record to inspire others.
Amy and David Freeman paddled out of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and into history last Friday afternoon, one year to the day since leaving civilization.
Meet the record-setting, 26-year-old canoeing phenom you’ve never heard of. Ann Raiho: first woman to canoe from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay.
Merrimack, a made-in-USA canoe company, is getting a new owner (Sanborn Canoe Co.) and a new home base in Winona, Minn., along the Mississippi River.
Apparently, you can pump a canoe the same way you’d pump a bike or skateboard. But you won’t be moving “gently down the stream.”
In 1976, a group of school teachers and students set out to retrace the route of explorer Robert de La Salle down the Mississippi River. The story of this epic winter voyage is told in a new book, ‘The Last Voyageurs,’ available this spring.
Get in the canoe to nab an inside look at the harvesting of Minnesota Wild Rice.
South Street labels itself as a creative design studio, though its boats are rugged and functional crafts for rivers and lakes.
It was still seaworthy after being tossed from a 100 foot building, pummeled with a sledgehammer, and wrapped around a rock.
Originally thought to be from the 1700s, testing shows this canoe is really ancient.
The “folding canoe” arrived in a box that fit in the back seat of my Toyota Corolla. At 44 pounds, this canoe could ostensibly be transported on an airplane or through the Himalaya strapped on the back of a yak.
Mad River built its first Malecite canoe in 1971. For 2011, the classic canoe design gets an update and a new hull.
Hemp, corn, and fiberglass — these are the ingredients for the Mad River Malecite ECO, a “green” concept canoe made with sustainable resources (but not for sale).
Wenonah’s Spirit II, a sleek all-purpose canoe made for multi-day trips, is available in several configurations. The Kevlar version weighs a miniscule 42 pounds and costs $2,099; the base model, a 68-pound boat made of a plastic material called Royalex, costs just $1,199. They are the exact same canoe, just made with different materials.
No, thanks.