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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 story, “The Arctic Nearly Killed Me — Twice,” appeared in the June 1977 issue of Outdoor Life. Tony Dauksza became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...