This past weekend I paddled and camped a portion of what might one day be America’s newest national park. There’s an effort underway to place The Grand Traverse Islands — — islands and some surrounding mainland from Wisconsin’s Door County to Upper Michigan’s Garden Peninsula — under control of the […]
Month: September 2015
“Flat water” kayaking
My whitewater river kayaking friends like to refer to the other kind of kayaking as “flat water.” Yeah right. Not when southerly winds kick up 5-foot waves on Lake Michigan, as was the case this late afternoon and evening at Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Paddling La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin is a beautiful anomaly. Bordered by magnificent bluffs along the Mississippi River in the unglaciated “driftless” region, the valley cut by erosion was spared the leveling effect of the last Ice Age that flattened the surrounding countryside. If you have never driven across the Mississippi River, or […]
Running the Wolf
I’ve been learning how to be a whitewater kayaker for four years so you’d think I’d be better at it by now. But when it comes to playboating tricks I still can’t loop, cartwheel or blunt. I attribute my poky learning curve to my advanced years; that’s my ego-protection rationale […]