Yesterday morning I poked my head out of the tent and found a thin, white blanket of snow. It was the first snowfall of the season in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northern Minnesota– ...
There are a lot of ways to experience the depth of a wild landscape: hiking, horseback riding, biking, off-roading. But none offer the same elegance and simplicity as paddling. Which is fortunate, ...
Adventure educators Amy and Dave Freeman arrived in Washington D.C. last Tuesday—by canoe. Over the past hundred days, the couple has paddled and portaged 2,000 miles from their home in Minnesota to ...
TERLINGUA, Texas — Paddling the Rio Grande River offers a unique adventure in the southwestern United States, but it is a wilderness trip for experienced and well-prepared paddlers. Choosing a time ...
JR Hunte blames it on bad planning on his part. He had underestimated just how hot it can get when he picked July to make his solo hike in South Dakota’s Badlands National Park. As he descended into ...
DULUTH — Laura Arneson and four friends reached the Arctic Ocean after canoeing 400 miles down Alaska’s Noatak River last July. From the river mouth, their destination, the town of Kotzebue, was just ...
Question: I am putting together a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and I have a group of novice campers. I’d like to help them by providing a list of items they should bring. Our trip ...
We are standing on the shore of spruce-fringed Finlayson Lake in the Yukon watching mine workers in rubber boots tumble out of the 1957 Beaver floatplane that will carry us the next day to the ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- This summer, mark your calendar for the “Wilderness Adventure Series,” in which Staten Islanders will get to explore a bountiful of outdoor activities with family and friends ...
FARGO — Many people pledge to get out and see the world after they retire. Berlin Nelson Jr. got his start as a teen and never stopped. "I was raised in the state of Washington. We spent a lot of time ...
I washed my muddy sneakers the day I got home from an early September canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As they dried on the sunny sill of my downtown Minneapolis condo, the ...
After owning a casting company for over a decade, Peta Barrett yearned to make the wilderness her "office." Driven by her lifelong love of the outdoors, Barrett moved from her home of 35 years in ...