Rob Stevens
Wooden Canoes are in the Blood
These teenagers spend a summer canoe tripping 400 miles:
What better way to learn about yourself and the people around you than 40 days traveling by way of canoe? Through heinous portages, bug-infested nights, and over a month of paddling with all their equipment, Hannah Maia’s film, Wood On Water, follows a group of 12 young women on an epic summer adventure. A 400-mile canoe trip with Camp Keewaydin through the Canadian wilderness.
Keewaydin was established in 1893. It’s one of the oldest operating summer camps in North America. A cornerstone of Keewaydin is its focus on canoe trips.
According to the camp’s literature: “Today we look much the same as we did in 1893; paddling in wood canvas canoes, using tump lines to portage canoes, double packs, and wannigans (the wooden boxes) in which we carry food and equipment. Meals are cooked over open fires and sections prepare all of their food from scratch. Groups (sections) of six to eight kids travel the surrounding wilderness waterways, often portaging from lake to lake or up and down rivers, making camp at new spots each night, and sleeping in tents with one or two other campers.”
While the camp has remained much the same in its 130-year history, there has been one major shift within the past 20 years, when girls were first permitted to attend the program.
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