I just wanted to write a quick update as we travel to San Diego to start our 3-4 month hike of the pacific crest trail. I am sitting in the Detroit airport killing some time before our flight leaves. Our daily blog probably won’t have many updates while we are out but if you are [...]
New Gear From mont-bell! UL Wind Parka and Ex Light Down Jacket
In preparation for our upcoming thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, Matt and I have been purchasing the last few items that we want/need to lighten up our packs and improve the overall function of our ultralight systems. We did a whole bunch of research on rain gear because we both desperately needed to replace [...]
After Months of Laziness Our Lake Superior Circumnav Journals are Finally done
Wow. Has it really been 8 months since we finished paddling? Where did the time go? And more importantly, what have I been doing? Apparently not a hell of a lot because we finally got our journals completely onto the website. It only took staring down the barrel of another big adventure to give us [...]
Early Spring Kayak touring: Devil’s Island, Apostle Island National Lakeshore
The weather in the Keweenaw has been awesome this spring. It was 80 degrees last week and my mind was long gone out on the water. I heard my friend Greg Maino was looking to take a trip so I stopped in to see him at work at Downwind Sports. After several iterations and a [...]
Spring is Here and that Means Kayaking on Lake Superior
The weather around here has been amazing the past few weeks; unseasonably warm and sunny. The 4-8 foot piles of snow in our backyard in Calumet are nearly gone and there is grass everywhere. It seems, at least for the time being, that winter has called it quits. All this fresh air and sunshine and [...]
Canoecopia
Last weekend we were lucky enough to get to go to Madison, WI for Rutabaga’s annual paddling expo. Rutabaga is the largest paddling shop in the country and Canoecopia is the biggest expo anywhere. I didn’t really think about what this meant until we got there. 25,000 paddling enthusiasts over the course of the weekend; [...]
Winter Kayaking Update
For everyone who read my last post about kayaking with Greg and Sam I have a short update. Greg’s memory card card for his camera was on the fritz but it looks like he fixed it so here are some more awesome photos from the trip. If you aren’t following Greg’s blog you should really [...]
Winter Kayaking On Lake Superior
We finally started to get some real snow in the Keweenaw, 30+ inches over the last few days, and winter looks like it is here to stay for a while. There are some real pros and cons to the changing seasons up here. I can ski now, which is great, but I can’t bike. I [...]
Congratulations DBKayak!
On May 2nd Dan and Bethany Cox of dbkayak.com paddled out of Lubec, Maine headed for Key West, Florida in an attempt to paddle the entire east coast of the U.S. It has taken over 7 months, and been an amazing amount of paddling but the couple has nearly completed their epic journey. They estimate [...]
A Superior Adventure at Canoecopia!
Hannah and I received an email yesterday from the folks at Rutabaga inviting us to speak about last summer’s kayak trip at their Canoecopia expo. We are unbelievably excited. Canoecopia is one of, if not the largest paddling expos in the world, and we get to speak there! We got hooked up with Rutabaga through [...]
