Field Log #0091 - Battle Lake, MN
BATTLE LAKE, MNBy: Nick Richter • nicksrichter.comOne of the most profound memories of my childhood is this dirt road. Every late summer, we’d pick out a week to take a trip to my grandparent’s lake cabin. At the time, my family lived in the northwes…
Field Log: #0082 - Admiralty: Fortress Of The Bears
ADMIRALTY: FORTRESS OF THE BEARSBy: Nate Ptacek • nateptacek.com"There are broad valley systems that have never known an axe and are, except for occasional windthrows, literally unbroken carpets of green, pristine wilderness ...a wet climax forest in…
Meet The Crew - Episode 2
David Moonen is our primary boat-builder (both for Sanborn Canoe Co and Merrimack Canoe Co.) and thing-climber. He spent few couple months living on public land in the Mississippi River backwaters a few years ago, and in this episode he takes…
Meet The Crew - Episode 1
We at Sanborn believe in putting our name on our work, and to help put faces to those names we're kicking off a series of interviews and staff profiles. One of the co-founders of Sanborn Canoe, Todd builds almost every performance paddle by hand…
Put Your Name On It
Since Sanborn Canoe's beginning a decade ago, there's a small detail included on each paddle that is easy to miss, but has great significance. Immediately below each grip is a small, branded initial. That initial indicates the name of the person who…