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Paul Villecourt Villecourt’s full time job as a photojournalist keeps him busy traveling to capture his next great shot. He is the author of Le Guide du Canoë en France, which covers routes all over the country he currently calls home. He waited for the perfect Indian summer day to take his Canoescapes photo (p. 12). “While I was shoot- ing that morning,” says Villecourt, “I knew that something really great was happening. I think it’s my best shot ever.”
Matt Swift Swift is on the board of directors at the Ameri- can Canoe Association and escapes from be- hind his desk to pole his canoe on the rocky streams of Southwest Virginia (“Canoe Poling,” p. 24). “I figured if I could go upstream in fast water,” he says, “I could simplify canoeing—no
shuttle, no partner, no schedule.” He loves to get kids trying poling on Boy Scout expeditions and enjoys racing against like-minded polers.
Matt Cruchet A consultant, speaker, author and outdoor educator, Cruchet has been paddling since he joined his high school club in 1988. Other than the medication he enlightens readers about in “Drugs on Trip” (p. 21), he says the most impor- tant items in his guiding first aid kit are “super- hero Band-Aids—assorted sizes and charac- ters. Ironman and Batman seem to work best.”
Conor Mihell Mihell purchased his first canoe—a Royalex Mad River—as a teenager. Though a recent restoration project left him smitten by tradi- tional cedar-canvas canoes, he still chooses
plastic for paddling tight, rocky rivers. Mihell says training his hyperactive, year-old husky mutt how to behave in the canoe is also bet- ter left to Royalex, “Sometimes you just need to get to shore quickly, rocks be damned.” Read his story, “Royalex Revolution,” on page 18.
Virginia Marshall Marshall, Canoeroots’ senior editor, shouldered the weighty responsibility of pulling together this issue’s “New Rules for Canoeists” feature (p. 34). She found inspiration on the water, trolled for trends on Facebook and picked the brains of hapless coworkers to create a list of 103 guidelines to help navigate canoeing’s some- times rough waters. To which Marshall adds two more: “Gunwalebobbing is still fun, and rules are meant to be bent.”
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