To kick off the year, I landed on a plan for a new trip. I'm going to try and combine two of my favorite activities into one adventure with a sport called bikerafting. Bikerafting combines bikepacking or touring with paddling using a lightweight and portable raft. While I haven't finalized the entire route, it's looking about 900 miles (if I can squeeze the trip into a slot in my schedule). It could shortened to about 400 miles total if I can't make it work with my schedule. The goal is to ride gravel and bike paths from my house in northeastern Minnesota to Wisconsin, paddle two rivers (plus a short section of a third), and then ride home on gravel roads and bike paths.

Finding flow on the water and behind the camera through attention, practice, and presence.

In an interview, DEED Commissioner Matt Varilek spoke at length about how ICE is affecting businesses and making the job of growing the state’s economy more difficult.

WEATHERMAN WINS FAVOR IN GRAND MARAIS

When I was visiting the Samburu nation in Kenya a few years ago, word came into camp that a lion had killed a cow from the nearby village.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Recently, I read Pushing the River by Frank Bures and enjoyed it thoroughly. The book documents the history of marathon racing on the Mississippi River, other stories from the region, some of the author's personal adventures and his brush with death on cold water. Overall, it was an entertaining read and well worth picking up for your winter reading. I find book reviews somewhat tedious, but I did want to recommend this book to PaddlingLight's readers, so I'll be brief with this review. The History of the Paul Buyan Canoe Derby…

Snow has a way of making the world feel briefly equal and clean. For photographers, that illusion is both a gift and a countdown.