Category Archives: canoeing

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Purple at Night

I was relaxing next to a little lake near Cooperstown, NY, at dusk when these colors happened and this guy paddled by. It’s a lake that is relatively high in elevation and you feel as though the sky and water are very close to each other.

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Wind River, Yukon Territory

The Wind River is a crystal-clear, aquamarine stream that flows fast and cold out of the Wernecke Mountains into the Peel River in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Some friends and I paddled more than 100 miles of it — plus a section of the Peel — in early July. It is remote, untouched, stunning and at the heart of a struggle over whether these wild lands will remain wild or be […]

Also posted in Canada, Peel River Watershed, Wind River, Yukon Territory
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Keystone State

Always lots to see in Pennsylvania. Top, Susquehanna River, Dauphin, sunset. Below, deal, Perry County.

Also posted in Pennsylvania, rivers, Susquehanna River
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Northern River, Maine’s St. John

The St. John River is just about as far north as you can go in Maine, paralleling the Quebec border where the river begins in the ponds, streams and bogs of the North Woods. It runs 418 miles from the middle of nowhere, north and then east and south to the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. The St. John is surrounded by land owned […]

Also posted in Maine, rivers, Spring, St. John River, water, Weather
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Wildwater on the Deerfield

On a beautiful late summer afternoon, the United States of America Canoe and Kayak 2012 Wildwater Team Trials began today on the Deerfield River in northern Massachusetts. Fastest kayaks down the 2-mile course in men’s and women’s classes win. Two sprint races will be held over the next two days to determine team members for the 2013 world championships in Solkan, Slovenia. These photos were taken […]

Also posted in kayaking, rivers, water
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Campfire

Algonquin Park, Ontario.

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