Canoe Magazine (which is what it was called at the time) was pretty good back in the 1970s and 1980s. Any "canoe" magazine that I have looked at for about the last 10 years has contained about 70% advertising. The other 30% were stories about breakneck adventures on whitewater rivers in other countries that I will never go to, or first descents of rivers or waterfalls that I will never run or even see.
So basically the answer is "no, not so far as I am aware". If you come across something decent post it here.
Clint,Are there any good magazines that come out 6-12 times a year with good content? Maybe with some tripping, racing, stories? Something to hold and look through.
And this is where I come to just about every day. And you are correct it is the best. I have learned so much from this site and continue to. A lot of which I will probably never get to use like the tripping style that is used up north. And I will probably never get to see the Boundary Waters. But it is neat to read the stories from there. I listen to Shawn and Derek on Paddling Adventure Radio podcast. And love their stories from Canada.Clint,
Although you can’t hold an ipad or iphone like a tradional hard copy magazine, I would suggest that the best available canoeing magazine today is canoetripping.net. And it comes out not just 6-12 times a year, but every day!
I think it was rolled into Paddling magazine along with a few other paddling magazines.Used to be
Canoe roots was a good one, but i think theh stopped a few years ago
Journalism itself is a dying art, being replaced with editorialism and worse. So much of the written word now appears to be written by an algorithm, or is a naked feeder to Amazon aka “affiliate”, or is as said above just a couple of fluffy paragraphs and a picture. Finding good print has been difficult… even good quality online sources are in decline. The best resource I found for cookware when I was shopping for induction-compatible cookware was chow hound and the forum is now gone. As sites are bought up to make money, quality craters while ads proliferate until the parent org sticks a fork in it because it’s no longer making them money. Just like Cerberus and Freedom Group destroyed Marlin and Remington, and some big named jerk shut down Bell; others are dead and dying too for the sake of milking cash for stock holders. Bah.
I’m very happy to have found this site. Glenn, let us know when it’s time for a fund drive. I want to see this site persist without the “help” of outside grifters.