Canoe trip report: 2010 Waterfowl Harassment Tour

The railroad swing bridge in spring, with leafless hardwoods and dark green White pines on the bluff behind it.

The annual early spring canoe outing has been thus dubbed with its name because the most consistent memory from year to year is pairs of ducks fleeing the canoe every hundreds or so.



Paddling and fishing the trout rivers of western Wisconsin

Fishing for trout in western Wisconsin

A column in the River Falls Journal pays well-deserved praise to the virtues of the Kinnickinnic and Rush Rivers and is an inspiration to get out and enjoy the rivers, whether fishing for trout or paddling a canoe.



“Find that basic animal secretly hidden inside myself”

“Finding Farley” is about a young couple and their two-year-old son’s journey across most of Canada to visit legendary writer and ecologist Farley Mowat (“Never Cry Wolf”).



River friends

My girls

A late summer canoe trip–with more floating than paddling–down the St. Croix with my two girls.



Morning fog on Karl Lake

Morning fog on Karl Lake

Had a nice, short trip to the Cross River/Long Island Lake area of the BWCAW over Labor Day with Katie and Lola.



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