PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Brian Krehbiel, part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde, is an artist, a weaver, a canoe and paddle carver. He spoke with KOIN 6 News about the qualities of a canoe ...
I remember watching an aging Dick Schafrath toss 80-pound canoes onto the upper tiers of a trailer without breaking a sweat. I decided then and there I wanted to grow up to be like him − wrangling ...
The freight canoe that was towing us plowed right on toward the logs, hit the first line, slowed, penetrated several canoe lengths, and stopped. Bazzano, in the bow of the freight canoe, and his guide ...
This only required one trip to the home improvement store and no trips to the hospital. Credit: Photo by Jeff Balke This is part two of an ongoing series of posts ...
I drove to Denton to buy a canoe in the middle of a pandemic. Credit: Photo by Jeff Balke In the height of a raging pandemic, I drove to north Texas to buy a canoe. Let me explain. My brother-in-law ...
Six years ago we first heard about the MyCanoe, a two-person canoe that folds up like origami for transit and storage. Its makers are now back on Kickstarter with the smaller, lighter MyCanoe Solo 2.
Before I started canoe tripping with him, my friend Ryan hinted at his love for his rickety wooden camp kitchen box, known as a “wannigan.” He told me about clinging to the semi-floating grub box in a ...
The idea that there are two Alaskas came to me in a cold wave as my canoe was swept into the toppled trees and I was thrown overboard. I caught a glimpse of my pal, Scott Wood, sprinting toward me ...
The water roiled, the texture of mashed potatoes, hostile, unconquerable, bucking my seventeen-foot canoe and shooting up frequent, unpredictable spires of water where crisscrossing waves converged. A ...
This story, “When Time Stopped,” appeared in the May 1954 issue of Outdoor Life. Floyd was lying on the bank of Cottonwood Creek where he’d fallen after he’d dragged himself clear of the water only ...