Wikle Family Circles North Shore of Lake Superior Laura and I have been wanting to circle the north shore of Lake Superior with the kids for a couple of summers. I’ve been making trips to the Canadian north shore once a summer for almost five years. I’ve been fortunate to have so much flexibility to …
Tag Archive: Lake Superior
Sep
02
Naturally Superior G-Style 2008 Day Three
Continued from Days One and Two Day Three We suited up to work on doing open water rescues. We headed out of the channel with around 8 students. We teamed up to do t-rescues. The swells were gentle and slow, but fairly sizeable for the Great Lakes 3-5 feet. Only sizeable in that they weren’t …
Sep
02
Naturally Superior Symposium G-Style 2008 Days 1 and 2
Sand River Falls The whole family decided to do the Circle Tour of Lake Superior for our end of summer vacation. We loaded up the van with all our gear, four kayaks, (alas and ironically no room for the mega maverick) and drove up to Wawa. We made a quick stop over at the Sand …
May
13
Sea Kayaking in The Apostle Islands-a Lesson in Leadership
Managing Inexperienced Paddlers on the Water In 2006 I led a Sea Kayaking trip in the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. To say that I led the trip is a stretch. I will say it was a great experience to learn how to lead a trip. View Larger Map Myself and Jim Svensson took two …
Jun
19
Lake Superior Provincial Park
My wilderness trip this year led us to Lake Superior Provincial Park. Somehow I always run out of gas to wax poetic about the wilderness trips. I will say this, it is every bit as beautiful as Pukaskwa. However towards the end, Highway 17 is clearly audible and visible at many points. I could only …
Apr
26
Naturally Superior’s 2nd Annual Greenland Symposium
I just got word from “Conor Mihell”:http://www.naturallysuperior.com/staff/our_staff.php, the organizer of the Naturally Superiors Greenland Symposium that I will be assisting with traditional paddling instruction in Wawa Ontario for their 2nd Annual Traditional Paddling Symposium. Naturally Superiors is situated right in the mouth of the Michipicoten River mouth, near Wawa Ontario on Lake Superior. The Rock …
Jun
07
Nestor
When I first got into kayaking I was thrown by how young I was compared to everyone else. I am still a young pup compared to the average age of paddlers in WMCKA. Alex Pak is probably the closest to my age and attitude towards paddling that I’ve come across. But of course Alex is …
Nov
10
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
If I had known that today was the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I probably wouldn’t have gone out. The storms passing by from the northwest were doing my soul harm. I couldn’t take seeing waves without being out there to at least surf some of them. I woke at 4:30 AM …
