Tuesday Outing Up-dates for July 2011

July 5th, We went up river and paddled to the CSX Rail Road bridge,which is 2 miles from the our starting point, the HP Landing. As we got close to the bridge, you could hear the train blowing it’s whistle as the train approached the bridge from the north, crossing Matzinger Road. Some of [...]

Outing on Saturday July 23, 2011

We are planing an outing, leaving the Howard Pinkley Landing at 9AM, Saturday July 23rd. ,weather permitting. We will head up river and try to paddle to Stickney Ave. and further, if the consensus is to go further! We would hope this would give others, that can not make the Tuesday evening outing, and [...]

Tuesday’s outings

The “Tuesday’s outings ” have been a great success! A number of people coming out are people that are “seasoned” canoeist/kayakers, while just as many are “first timers”, or have only been out 1 or 2 times before. But it doesn’t matter which group they are from, They all come back to the Landing [...]

A few new canoe/kayaking links to check out!

Here are two links that were in an article “Parting The Waters”, by Elisha Anderson in the Detroit Free press, June 10th 2011. Unfortunatley there is a charge to down load this great article about the Clinton River clean up for canoe/kayak usage. The Clinton River is located about a half hour’s drive north [...]

Steve Pollick “Fort to Port”

I hope you are following Steve Pollick’s Canoe Trip, down the Maumee River, from      Fort Wayne to Toledo.

He is paddling with Matt Horvat, and a support team that is following on the road. Steve is sending in articles each day, which are then published in the sports section of the Toledo [...]