Born to Paddle

Born to Paddle: Life and Lessons from Childhood on the water
article stories by several families, including Doug and Canyon Woodward
Canoe & Kayak magazine, Spring 2016

Several families relate the joys of connecting to Nature via paddling. Canyon was 7 months old the first time he went on a long river trip (of course he was on shorter trips earlier than that!), the Green River through the Gates of Ladore. Canyon relates how familiar the river is on another trip when he was older. And Doug writes of Forest’s encounter with the big water of Nantahala Falls at age 6, and how Forest has grown as a paddler.

View/read the article (1.1 MB pdf).