ODE TO A QUARTERING TAILWIND
If you have read my blogs at Redfeather or some of the things I wrote for the outfitter I worked for in the past, you’ve probably encountered something about the notorious quartering tailwind, a paddling condition that fascinates me. Typically, when I am talking about the quartering tailwind it involves fear or discomfort, […]
Introducing Tyler (Store Manager)
My name is Tyler Suter, and I am the general manager and canoe expert at the Redfeather Outdoors store in Ely, Minnesota, unofficial (but deserving of title) canoe capital of America. As Redfeather’s first store manager I have been tasked with telling a little bit about myself. Life in the Northwoods I have […]
Cruel Ice on Pagami Creek
Falling through ice is a funny thing. I’ve gone ankle, knee, thigh deep through ice multiple times in swamps and creeks, and it all starts the same. The ice gives way, slowly at first, then all at once you are falling through an indeterminate distance down. Morning Start I started pulling across the Kiwishiwi River […]
FLOODING HUNTER’S ISLAND
I was locked into an expressionless trance where my entire being focused on the task at hand, locked into the flow of the river, the obstacles around us, every flick of the paddle through the water and every shift and shudder of the canoe as it was pulled and pushed by the torrent, threatening to […]
