Where have we all paddled?

[Erica]

In the interest of helping with starting new threads; I was wondering how widespread our canoe (not kayak, not raft) trips have taken us. For large countries such as the US, Canada, or Australia, you might want to identify the state or province.

Glenn, if you can think of a catchier title to this thread, feel free to edit. I know we’ve had people - I’m thinking of someone who was tripping in France and posting about it. It would be interesting to see where we have all been.

I’ll start. I’ve paddled in Illinois, Wisconsin (as a child), the Adirondacks, Arizona, Florida, Georgia. Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan. Sweden. Switzerland. France.

I’m sure many of you have traveled widely. Please let us know where.

 

[dutchlennart]

Canoe:
Netherlands , Belgium , luxemburg, france, ireland, scotland, wales ,england, germany, sweden, denmark, poland
Kayak; all bove minus ireland , sweden, polansd
Plus norway, swiss, slovenia,austria turkey, nepal

I guess might have forgotten some..

Looking forward to read from others,
Looking forward to meet some other members. I think i met 2

 

[Erica]

How far away are you from northern France?

 

[Robin]

Pennsylvania, New York, all of New England states, Quebec and Ontario, Florida.

 

[dutchlennart]

How far away are you from northern France?

Pm.send

 

[Gamma1214]

Pennsylvania, Minnesota, South Carolina and NW Ontario. Hoping to add more.

 

[Jmharrick]

West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, and Ontario, CA.

 

[Benson Gray]

Canoe: New England, New York, and Ontario
Kayak: New England, Arizona, and Great Britain

 

[memaquay]

Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba. I would really like to come down to the USA one of these days for some international paddling.

 

[Black_Fly]

“Where have we all paddled?”

There is probably not a place that we all have paddled.

 

[yknpdlr]

New York State (Adirondacks, Catskills, St Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, and elsewhere), Ontario (Smiths Falls demo festival event), PA (race training), Ohio (when stuck there in the AF), Yukon Territory (racing), Alaska (second half of 1000 mile Yukon River race)

 

[Black_Fly]

Ohio (accidentally born here), Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ontario, Wyoming, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho

 

[lowangle al]

Here is my list in the order of how I did them.

Pa, started out with trips on the Susquahhana, then canoe fishing and whitewater.

NY, Took a long weekend whitewater course for my Honeymoon in 1990, on the upper Hudson at Glen Falls.

Alaska, I moved to Ak in 91 and mostly did trips in Southcentral and interior Ak with one trip to the Arctic.

Florida, My Mother moved there in the early 2000s and I would trip there in the winter in the Everglades

NY, I'm mentioning NY again because my first experience was only a WW course. I didn't really start tripping there until maybe 2018.

Maine, I took one trip to Maine where I met Robin for a very good and memorable trip. I definitely plan to go back.

Next on my to do list is Canada. Probably start with Algonquin or Tamagami.

 

[lowangle al]

Ohio (accidentally born here),

That's nothing to be ashamed of these days, my G kids are the cutest b*st*rds I know.

 

[Allegheny Tom]

Wife and I have paddled 28 states as of now but last year we decided to set a goal to paddle all 50. We'll probably check off another 5 states this year.
I will confess that a few states we did in rafts, but they were all paddle rafts, we never "went for a ride in an oar raft". Some rivers (class 4&5) are beyond our skill level to open boat so we rafted. If I used a paddle to propel a floating device, I count that as legitimate

 

[ppine]

Nevada, California, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming,
Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Minnesota, Maine.

My only regret is that I never got to paddle any of the rivers in Alaska that I fell in love with.
I was either busy working on them or just passing through.

 

[Ralph]

Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Manitoba.

I suspect that the lists from the eastern US will be quite long due to the relatively small sizes of the states. To put things in a bit of perspective,
Quebec (1.54M km²) is roughly 1/3 larger than Texas and Alaska combined. Just saying...

 

[Superdave]

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan (Isle Royale), Illinois, South Carolina, Colorado, Florida, Maui, Alaska.

I was on Tahiti a couple of years ago, and my greatest regret is that I didn't go for a paddle while there. I would guess that Tahitians have the strongest paddling culture of anywhere in the world. Racks and racks of outrigger canoes everywhere there is water access, and so many people, young and old, out paddling early in the morning before work or school, or after work in the afternoon. What I found really remarkable, was how many of them were in OC-6s; it's one thing to find some time to go off paddling on your own, but imagine living somewhere it's commonplace to get together with five of your friends midweek to go for a paddle on a regular basis.

 

[yknpdlr]

I almost forgot to include that I was invited by the team coach to paddle during one evening training session with the Austtralian National Dragon Boat team on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra during a business trip there.

 

[wjmc]

Starting out, NW Ontario and Manitoba.

Moving west, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut (although it was still part of the NWT when I paddled there.)

In deference to the prejudices of this site, I won't include British Columbia, since I only paddled there in a WW k***k.

Canoeing in Canada is a "glass half full" kind of thing. To the optimist, you will never run out of new places to paddle. To the pessimist, you will never get to more than a tiny fraction of the places you want to see.

My biggest regret is not paddling in Ungava and Labrador.