Nineteen-year-old Petri Alva’s favorite sprint-kayaking event is the 500 meter. “It’s just a fantastic race because it combines speed and endurance in a really challenging way,” he said. He laughed and added, “It’s about 90 seconds of all-out pain.” That’s the positive attitude shared by both Petri and his twenty-five-year-old brother, Zachary Alva. They are…
Kayaking Among Whales and Bears in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park
By Trisha Collopy From Star Tribune Glacier Bay National Park—A giant, hollow breath, deep as a crevasse, breaks the predawn quiet. Just off the lip of the shallow, rocky beach where my tent is pitched, a 40-ton behemoth is feeding at 4 a.m. The flat brightness, a civil twilight, looks like the same light I…
Float, Sail or Cruise Through History
Using a paddle to guide my canoe through the rapids of the Allagash River in northern Maine, I thought of those who had passed through that area of unspoiled nature before me. The indigenous Penobscot tribe gave the 65-mile waterway its name, which means “bark stream.” In the 1840s dams were built to facilitate shipping…
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