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CAMPFIRE

WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS,
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS.
PHOTO: SCOTT MACGREGOR

IN MEMORY OF
Here my dad catches me with our canoe next to
one of the freighters going from the Port of New
Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. We paddled the
Mississippi River in 100 days, commemorating the
victims of Covid-19 with sunset performances of
Taps, played on the trumpet by my father.
PHOTO: SAMANTHA ARMACOST

REAL CREEKIN’ MAD

I am very upset that your article “Ultimate Guide to Driving Shuttle” (Fall 2021, paddlingmag.com/0118) LOCAL TREASURE
has a vehicle driving along a creek bed. Really? It’s 2021 and we should know better than to promote the We ordered a new inflatable canoe for whitewater
destruction of any waterway. How is that ok? Please take corrective action because you know better. family paddling, and we tested it on the Danube
Most Sincerely, River between Slovakia and Hungary. The river’s
Wildflowerboats dozens of beaches are habitats for birds, beavers,
wild pigs and deer. And it’s located only 30 kilome-
“Not a creek bed. It’s the old railway line—tracks removed Mad with then Canadian freestyle team members Billy ters from the city of Bratislava, where we live.
years before, and now a multi-use trail—bordering the Harris and Tiffany Manchester for a photoshoot on rock PHOTO: TOMAS VELECKY
Madawaska River between the villages of Madawaska and moves, like spins and splats and rock wheels. My Trooper
Whitney. A beaver had dammed a little creek, flooding the was towed away from the office parking lot in the fall of
railway trail with the resulting pond. Although the water 2001. I got more for the stereo than I did for scrap metal.” SHOW US YOUR BEST SHOTS!
was pushing either over the hood if we went too quickly —Scott MacGregor,
or seeping in the doors if we went too slowly, we knew the Paddling Magazine DREAM JOBS For a chance to be featured in a future issue
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