MONTEVIDEO -- Whether the preferred mode of travel is by boat, hiking shoes or all-terrain-vehicle, our means of getting around in the great outdoors is usually the product of modern industry. Not so ...

As a paddler living in Red Wing, Minnesota, I have spent many enjoyable hours cruising the beautiful rivers and lakes located just a few miles from my home. Last winter, while the ice thickened and ...

WADENA, Minn. — Wadena-Deer Creek senior Cody Wheeler was down to the deadline to decide what his woodworking project was going to be for his shop class last winter. A last-minute decision brought him ...

"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

NEAH BAY — A 34-foot cedar canoe built by high school students made its maiden voyage to greet 2002 Paddle Journey participants Saturday. As the 11-seat oceangoing canoe was launched, local children ...

PORT ANGELES — The 16th century: It’s a great place to visit in a cedar canoe. More than a dozen such craft put in at Hollywood Beach on Wednesday, and in many important aspects, they’d traveled ...

FORT SPOKANE — They may have been paddling upstream, but the wind was at their backs. Their hand-carved cedar canoes may have weighed 800 pounds and stretched 31 feet in length, but they moved easily ...

The red cedar is rich, alive in a way plastic and aluminum never can be, some might say sensual, each whorl of grain a tiny river's eddy. This wood drank these Swan Valley waters, knows this water, is ...

The Gladwin Conservation District and Friends of the District will bring a Cedar River canoe race to the community between the cities of Gladwin and Beaverton next spring. Zach Bates and Tristan ...