Canoe portage

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area - BWCA located within the Superior National Forest has canoeing, portaging, camping and sometimes a perilous wilderness adventure

Before you can truly call yourself a paddler, there are a handful of paddling skills you'll need to master. Here's our list of the 20 most essential skills.

Our first official female paddle-hider was definitely born to canoe. As a young girl, Andrea Wilson* used to spend hours steering her cedar canvas boat to her will. Back country canoe trips came next. No stranger to the trail, Andrea first became a Wilderness Guide...

“In a canoe a man changes and the life he has lived seems strangely remote. Time is no longer of the moment, for he has become part of space and freedom. What matters is that he is heading down the misty trail of explorers and voyageurs, with a fair wind and a chance for a good camp somewhere ahead. The future is other lakes, countless rapids and the sound of them, portages around through muskeg and over the ledges.” Sigurd F. Olson, from "Wilderness Days"

1968 Minnesota -- Portaging a canoe -- Wire Photo | eBay

I sometimes get frustrated at having to ask for help when I’m not physically strong enough to do something on my own. Pictured above is Jen Bruntlett’s husband portaging a canoe. She wa…

An epic 4 day Algonquin portage canoe trip that started from Canoe Lake to McIntosh Lake to Big Trout Lake to Burnt Island Lake and back.

Featuring more than 2000 lakes and 500 portages, Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park is a canoe tripping paradise. Paddlers have the ultimate freedom to plan their own route through 1.2 acres of wilderness, choosing a trip length and preferred style to suit, camping at 2,200+ rustic campsites along the way. Canoeing doesn't get much better than this!

There’s love of travel, and then there’s chronic wanderlust. It’s a drug and a disease all at the same time. It only spreads bigger as you feed on it yet the only way to find relief is by satiating…

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