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Bryan Hansel: “When I was in grade school, I was always exploring, getting muddy, catching turtles, frogs and snakes, and
bringing home nettles for my mom to put in a vase,” recalls Hansel. The Grand Marais, Minnesota, photographer, writer and guide took a 20-day canoe trip to bring us the story of Wilderness Classroom, a project that aims to get more youth outdoors (page 43).
Ned Morgan: Morgan is the managing editor of Mountain Life magazine. He visited the prisoner of war camp he wrote about
on page 18 while on a mountain bike tour of Riding Mountain National Park. “I thought that dugout canoes were only used on the West Coast but First Nations used them in Illinois, Kentucky, Michi- gan, Ontario and other places,” he says. “In Manitoba, they used only birchbark, so the PoW’s were not mimicking a historically local craft.”
Laurel Archer: Based in Vancouver Island’s Comox Valley, Archer is a canoe and kayak instructor, member of the International
Explorers Club and author of Northern Saskatchewan Canoe Trips and Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips, volumes I and II. Explor- ing the notoriously treacherous Finlay River with B.C. canoe legend, Tony Shaw (Profile, page 16), the unflappable Archer says, “Rappel- ling gear and canoes down a crumbling cliff in Cascade Canyon, I was sketched out. I’m not a mountain person.”
Eric Leclair: From a solo crossing on foot of the Himalaya to running the Nahanni in a September snowstorm, Leclair has
worked as a mountain guide and led groups down nearly 10,000 kilometers of rivers. His favorite rivers lie above the 50th parallel, making this decorated instructor an obvious choice to teach the essential northern tripping skills starting on page 36.
Scott MacGregor: Canoeroots founder and publisher, MacGregor has perfected paddling trips with his young family.
“Lots of people stop paddling when they start a family because they think it’s too hard with small kids,” he says. “Starting them young and getting out a lot are great ways to ensure your kids will grow up to be paddlers.” Multi-family guided trips (“Follow the Leader”, page 32) are perfect for testing the waters.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF: NED MORGAN, BRYAN HANSEL, ERIC LECLAIR, SCOTT MACGREGOR / PHOTO OF LAUREL ARCHER: CHRIS JOSEPH
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