THE RIVER POURS between the boulders, each scarred with red and green paint left by canoes that didn’t thread this needle quite neatly enough. Standing in the boat, I twist to the right to plant the ...

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Chip Cochrane is the Maine woods come to life—a gnarled tree trunk of a man with enough muscle to power his canoe against rushing whitewater. The third-generation Maine Guide’s raw strength and ...

Late on a July afternoon, we began poling up Wisconsin's Brule River. Four canoes, eight of us in all. We would move upstream a couple of miles, find an appropriate spot and grill brats and chicken ...

The St. Croix is a dream river for a beginner’s canoe clinic, a sampler — starting with the lake, moving on to smaller, then increasingly larger rapids, with plenty of shallows for poling and ...

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