“The Firegrate Review”

The Firegrate Review

My latest project is a new chapbook published through the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, featuring 20 essays, stories and poems about the Boundary Waters.



Making miles

Warming up with a cup of tea

A one-day cannonball run to the North Shore with an old friend when he was home for Thanksgiving.



Once more to the river

Sam on the St. Croix River, November 2010

A friend visiting from Montana and I paddle the St. Croix on a windy and beautiful late autumn day; my first time paddling a canoe in November.



“Paddle North”

Paddle North cover

For those who love traveling the Boundary Waters region by paddle and portage, the new book titled “Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness” from photographer Layne Kennedy and writer Greg Breining from the Minnesota Historical Society Press should be of great interest. I wouldn’t normally engage in such promotion on this site, but I’ve already gladly lent my name to the endeavor, with a short endorsement that appears on the back cover of the book.

“In Paddle North, Greg Breining and Layne Kennedy have captured the beauty, solitude, and challenges of canoe country. They bring to the reader the essence of Quetico-Superior wilderness and remind us of why we go there. Contained in these pages are the roaring silence, the wild lakes, the



Boundary Waters caught on film

Three excellent recent videos from the Quetico-Superior ecosystem.



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