Touring kayaks are typically made of plastic, composites or sometimes wood, but unlike canoes, almost never aluminum. That didn't faze Brennen Kunka, however, who recently built his own all-aluminum ...

After a three-decade career of exposing celebrity foibles for a gossip-hungry American public, Ron Haines is on a very solitary, private mission. He's navigating the Mississippi River in a 30-year-old ...

There are tough portages, and then there are portages like the one Jim Kurz is undertaking. Kurz, 63, is walking from his hometown of Ladysmith, Wis., to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...