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DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
Create a Best Of list and there are bound to be those whose favorites get left out. Lots of readers of the Top 40 Campfire Songs list in our Summer/Fall issue wondered why their top picks didn’t make the cut. “How on Earth is Land of the Silver Birch not on the list?” asked Benjamin on
Canoerootsmag.com. For Rick Follet, some omitted favorites in-
clude Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Ed- mund Fitzgerald, James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James and The Eagles’ Peaceful, Easy Feeling. “My crowd usually sings actual campfire songs from Boy or Girl Scouts or songs we learned as kids like On Top Of Spaghetti,” wrote Astrelfrog. To share your top picks visit
www.canoerootsmag.com/0014.
TAKING A STAND
Standup paddling is considered by many to be the hot new thing in paddlesports, but accord- ing to Canoeroots readers, it’s been around a while. On our Facebook page, James Horne posted, “I’m not sure what to think about the buzz. I’ve been doing it for years in my canoe.” Sam Southworth wrote, “We always called this Maine Guide Style.” “Great idea, standup paddling in a canoe,
but buying a paddle is a challenge—$200 is the starting point for a decent SUP paddle,” dream- er posted on
Canoerootsmag.com. “Someone should make a three-piece standup paddle that, when assembled with only two pieces, can serve as a backup sit-down bent shaft.” To which Steve replied, “Just buy a take-apart pad- dle and get some aluminum tubing and make an extension. Imperial-sized tubing is easy to find, but metric tubing is brutal to locate.”
EVENTS
Pull your paddles out of winter storage and dust off your canoes, there’s plenty going on this spring. Join us at the premiere of the 2012 Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour, Feb- ruary 9 in Toronto, or check out one of the 99 other stops on this year’s tour (
www.reelpad-
dlingfilmfestival.com). Meet the Canoeroots gang at the Toronto Out-
door Adventure Show, February 24–26 (www.
outdooradventureshow.ca); at Canoecopia in Madison, WI, from March 9–11 (
www.canoeco-
pia.com) and at Jersey Paddler’s Paddlesport, March 23–25 (
www.jerseypaddler.com). White- water open boaters can spend spring break in Lenoir City, TN, at Ain’t Louie Fest, March 10–18 (
www.waldensridgewhitewater.com/ALF.htm). Prefer calmer waters? Check out the Florida FreeStyle Symposium in Yulee, March 16–19 (
www.freestylecanoeing.com). The East Coast Canoe & Kayak Festival takes place April 20–22 this year in Charleston, SC (
www.ccprc.com).
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Frank Wolf: “The kilometers add up as you go,” says Vancouver-based, award-winning filmmaker Frank Wolf of his recent 1,200-kilometer trip (The Art of Trip, page 40). “My longest
effort to date was 8,000 km, when I canoed across Canada.” His recent film, On the Line, about a 2,400-km journey by foot, bike and kayak, revealing the fallout of a proposed oil pipeline, is on tour with the 2012 Reel Paddling Film Festival (
www.reelpaddlingfilmfestival.com;
www.onthelinemovie.com).
Hap Wilson: When he’s not out paddling, author, photographer and adventurer Hap Wilson resides in Muskoka, Ontario. “The Trans Canada Trail water trail has many hurdles,” he
says of his current project (Path of the Paddle, page 21). “Aside from locating long unused, Aboriginal onigum, the politics involved slow my canoe down to a snail’s pace.” His upcom- ing guide on the trail will bring the total number of books he has authored to over a dozen.
Larry Rice: An avid canoeist from Buena Vista, Colorado, and a brand-new columnist for Canoeroots (Wild Rice, page 10), Rice is the author of four adventure travel books. A
wilderness traveler for over 35 years, he has managed to canoe in 25 countries on all seven continents. Whether in exotic locales or close to home, Rice says, “Paddling is one of life’s greatest pleasures and one of the best ways to see and experience the world.”
Rick Matthews: Wellington, Ontario, native Rick Matthews spends his days helping to run a co-op art gallery, shooting images and trying to decipher computer software. “Early
on I had two passions—paddling and photography,” says Matthews, longtime Canoeroots contributor and a winner in this year’s Experience Canadian Heritage Rivers Photo Contest (Canoescapes, page 12). “The more time I spent in the canoe, the more I was intrigued by capturing the changes in light, mood and dynamics of water.”
Tanya MacGregor: “Every year I look forward to our family canoe trip in August,” says Canoeroots staffer Tanya MacGregor. Her children, Doug and Kate, make regular appear-
ances in the magazine (Family Friendly Whitewater, page 36). “The beauty of tripping with kids,” says MacGregor, “is that they live in the moment and force us to take a break from plan- ning to enjoy frog hunting, fishing or a ball at the butterfly palace.”
PHOTOS (CLOCWISE FROM TOP): FRANK WOLF / LARRY RICE / SCOTT MACGREGOR / RICK MATTHEWS / HAP WILSON
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