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CONTRIBUTORS BRYAN HANSEL
Hansel writes, photographs and guides kayak trips for his company, North Shore Expe- ditions, from his home in Grand Marais, Minnesota. He joined Wilderness Classroom paddlers, and fellow Minnesotans, Amy and Dave Freeman for some 350 miles of their three-year North American Odyssey expedition (“School’s Out,” page 21). Long-time friends with the couple, Hansel was inspired to do more: “I’ve started to volunteer with the Wilderness Classroom Organization,” he says.
PAUL MANNING-HUNTER
Manning-Hunter is a Canadian Junior National Champion and North American Un- der-23 Champion in whitewater kayak slalom, but the 24-year-old had never been sea kayaking before his weeklong tour in the Great Bear Rainforest (“A Better Adventure,” page 48). Filming an environmental documentary of the trip was a natural extension of his work with Clean Air Champions, through which he’s advocated healthy living and climate change awareness to hundreds of school kids.
ALEX MATTHEWS
A longtime contributor to this magazine, Matthews is also a veteran of the West Coast paddlesports industry and is on a first-name basis with many of its founders. In this issue, he interviews Sterling Donalson, founder of Sterling Kayaks in Bellingham, Washington (page 43). “The more I talked to him, the more I liked the guy,” says Matthews, “Sterling represents the good old days of sea kayaking for me, when you would meet the owners of the companies on the beach showing off their wares.”
DAVE QUINN
An award-winning journalist, wilderness guide and wildlife biologist, Quinn attributes his deep bond with Africa to spending a university semester at a Kenyan field school in the mid-‘90s. “We camped all over Kenya, moving to a new park every 10 days or so, and the experience changed my life,” he recalls. Quinn jumped at the chance to teach kayaking in Tanzania (Waterlines, page 12). “It was a great honor to be allowed to return to the Moth- erland to work with the National College of Tourism instructors, and hopefully plant the seeds of a future kayak industry.”
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PHOTOS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: BRYAN HANSEL, PAUL MANNING-HUNTER, ROCHELLE RELYEA, DAVE QUINN
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