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Say Hello to North Shore Expeditions
Looking for a good kayaking guide along the Lake Superior shoreline? Go with the guy who’s paddling out there nearly every flippin’ day. MORE
Wilderness Classroom’s North American Odyssey
What if you had an 11,000 mile journey where you traveled by canoe, kayak and dogsled? MORE
Report: Midwest Mountaineering Outdoor Adventure Expo (Spring ’11)
Did you make it to the Expo this weekend? Read this anyway.
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Becoming An Outdoors Woman
Do you know how to paddle your canoe when the wind kicks up? What would you do if you sprained an ankle while portaging? MORE
DNR Launches Mobile Apps
Interested in the finding the depth of your favorite fishing hole? Maybe you’d just like to determine where the water access is for your canoe. MORE
Gallery of Paddles From Around The World
Check out this gallery of illustrated paddle designs… and find a new favorite!
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Canoe Jousting? Kayak Jumping? I’ll Take Both, Please
This weekend, we found two great ideas for y’all fun-lovin’ paddlers. Too bad it’s so late in the season here, because both involve your body careening into the water.
Canoe jousting and kayak jumping were overwhelmingly popular attractions at the first RiverRocks Festival in Chattanooga, TN. The weekend-long celebration aimed to support conservation efforts in the Tennessee River Valley. Judging from the long lines of repeat jousters, it sounded pretty successful.
The canoe jousting saw 2-person teams trying to thump each other overboard, using large foam soccer-bopper sticks. Nearby, a 15-foot kayak jump (with a 1-foot kicker at the bottom) was also well-utilized. Spectators might have seen several corkscrews and 180s… a good share of epic fails…
Events like this sound fantastic, but moreover it gives us hope that these things are happening. It’s so much easier for people to support a cause when they’re smack in the middle of celebrating it. We’d love to see more conservation groups and tourism boards in Minnesota take this approach to raising funds and awareness.
Or at least fit the jousting into what they’re already doing… please? Just for us.
[Photo: Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press]
Meet America’s New Favorite: Bear Head Lake State Park
North America has a new favorite vacation destination. And it’s right in our backyard.
Thanks to an internet poll by Coca Cola, Bear Head Lake State Park in Ely edged out better known parks, like the Great Smoky Mountains, by a land slide. 1.7 million votes secured the $100,000 prize for Bear Head.
It became popular because of two well known research bears, Lily and Hope. We suspect that many of those polled, however, are unfamiliar with the park itself.
If you can’t get to the Boundary Waters, check out why you’ll want to make a trip here.
Choose My Adventure, Day 4: Just Dew It
Spend a few days with the Gear Junkie, and you’ll become inspired to experience the outdoors actively, to accept challenge eagerly, and to live your life superlatively. Kinda like how they do in them crazy 80’s Mountain Dew commercials (see this, this, and O yes Lord! this.)
The final day of our Choose Your Own Adventure vacation with the Gear Junkie, proves to be the perfect launch pad for all that extremey inspiration. We’re kayaking ginormous Raystown Lake in the heart of the Alleghenies, and you’ve voted that I should pull a stupid stunt, just like in those vintage Dew ads.
So throw on your Daisy Dukes and read on for the full story and an ice cold 12-pack of pics!
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