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Article: Canoe in a duffel: tackle wild waters with a craft you can keep on your closet shelf.
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In the South Seas, Polynesians used canoes to get from island to island. The Inuit paddled them across the Arctic to migrate from Siberia to Greenland. In North America. canoes opened the fur trade from the St. Lawrence to the Mackenzie Delta. Today, open canoes--some of which hold up to 800 pounds of gear and people--are still the craft of choice for long wilderness trips. Even when setting off on a day trip near home, there is no two-person craft more pleasant for moving through water.
But portage 80 pounds of canoe a few miles and the sweetness of paddling becomes a distant memory. Likewise, those who own I tiny cars, or live in small apartments, or whose ...
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