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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 c … read more

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 gr … read more

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 backwa … read more

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, T … read more

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. … read more