My great adventure, a six-day canoe trip into the wilds of northeastern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) is a million-plus acres of pristine forests, lakes and rivers; a land rich with the history of the voyageurs, the native Ojibwe, and their Algonquin-speaking distant relatives. Canoe and portage is the only method of travel, and man is tested to his limits against the timeless power of Nature.... (full story) (4 photos)

An early-season foray into North Dakota's badlands, to do some mountain biking on the infamous Maah Daah Hey trail... some of the best mountain biking in North America can be found here, in the rural mid-western United States.... (full story) (8 photos)