You can tell a lot about a person just by watching them take a few paddle strokes. Can they hold a straight course? Do they use excessive force and then need to overcorrect their steering? Do they tire quickly? Is their stroke efficient?

All winter, I have been carving and daydreaming about the summer to come. I am excited to return to camp and use my paddle.

For two days on Deer Island and five days in the Canadian wilderness, a father and his son will spend uninterrupted time together.

His convictions are closely held, his passion indefatigable, his theatrics legendary. But Patrick Risberg wasn’t always the confident young leader he is today.

After three years exploring new canoe routes, the Seniors will return this summer to the Hudson Bay hamlet of Churchill.

The world has changed, and Kooch-i-ching now offers something more critical than ever: a break.

Final preparations are underway on Rainy lake for the most ambitious Arctic expedition ever mounted by a group of Kooch-i-ching staff men.

As a trip head in the summer and a school teacher in the winter, I see more change in a boy over the course of a 10-day canoe trip than I do during an entire school year.

This May, I will once again pack my three outfits—work Carhartts, evening Carhartts, and going-to-town Levi’s—and, with the faithful Jasper, head north.