This week in canoeing news: Dumoine photo workshop, ice canoe challenge, water-resistant down and a canoeing legend dies.
Nature Photography Workshop on the Dumoine River
Join Louise Tanguay and Wally Schaber this September for an exciting photography experience on the Historic Dumoine River. Come and explore its many miles of beautiful unspoiled shorelines. The workshop is for the novice to the experienced amateur or professional. It will be hosted at the 200 year old timber main lodge of the Dumoine Rod and Gun Club. The Dumoine River is flanked by majestic white pine forests combined with spectacular falls and rapids. A nature photographer’s paradise. The Dumoine is a wilderness wild river that forms the boundary between Pontiac and Temiscamingue counties in Western Quebec. It is Western Quebec’s best known and most loved wild river that flows over 100 km from the Kipawa Highlands to the Ottawa River. Learn more by clicking here.
Ice Canoe Challenge
Athletes in the Ice Canoe Challenge competed on the frozen waters of the St. Lawrence River in Montreal on Saturday for this elite title. The race, in which paddlers push their canoes over ice and jump back in as they hit the water, returned after a 20-year hiatus and is a two-hour spectacle of endurance. Via Ottawa Citizen.
Does Water-Resistant Down Live Up to the Hype?
Water-resistant down has been touted as a total game-changer since it debuted to much fanfare at last year’s Winter Market, and the buzz only has grown since then. This breakthrough in insulation technology — which significantly reduces one of down’s biggest weaknesses, its dip in performance when wet, with a polymer treatment — is a shoe-in for market domination. Or is it? Via SNEWS.
Canadian Canoeing Great Dies
John Wood did more than win a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. By finishing just 34/100ths of a second behind Alexandre Rogov of the Soviet Union in the 500-metre canoeing singles, he offered hope to paddlers across the continent that the dominance of the Eastern Bloc could be challenged. Via Toronto Star.
