The weather throughout her journey has been a struggle, Madison Williams says, including seven tornado watches – one of which escalated into a warning – “tons” of thunderstorms, a week of excessive ...

GRAND FORKS – There were plenty of dicey moments – floods, storms, tornado watches, heat, isolation and rough water among them – but Madison Eklund in late August completed a 1,600-plus-mile kayak ...

For biologist and avid canoeist Jim Duncan, nothing beats the old-fashioned way of planning a multi-day wilderness outing — pulling out a large paper map, gathering his travelling companions around it ...