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Canoe Country Camping
In this complete and up-to-date guide, first-time campers will find answers to all their questions about where to go, how to pack, and what to do. Seasoned campers will find helpful tips to streamline their planning and make their next trip better than ever.
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The flying canoe
11-year old Baptiste, spending the winter at a logging camp, gets a chance to go back home by riding \"la chasse-galerie\" (the devil's canoe) through the sky.
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Canoeing the Churchill
\"Outstanding. Its combination of historical material, maps, photos, and travelogue brings the fur trade era alive. Seldom has the past and the present been brought together so successfully.\" -George Melnyk, University of Calgary \"The reader is exposed to hundreds of points of interest, historical rock paintings, landmarks, campsites, local histories, and folklore...[the book] will tell any canoeist or adventurer almost all they need to know.\" -James Winkel, Saskatchewan History An invaluable resource for paddlers preparing to face the challenges of Canada's old fur trade highway, Canoeing the Churchill is also an exhilarating trek into the past for the \"armchair voyageur.\" With routes for both beginners and experts, Canoeing the Churchill provides practical \"on the water advice\" for the entire 1,100 km route--from Methy Portage to Cumberland House.Canoeing the Churchill \"will introduce the beauty of the north and its rich cultural heritage to readers from all parts of the world.\" -Keith Goulet, Cumberland House Cree Nation
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How to canoe and kayak like a pro
\"In this 'How-to' guide, learn the basic skills of canoeing and kayaking including how to launch a canoe and kayak, how to read a river, and how to stay safe while out on the water\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Muscle activity at varying intensity loads in canoe paddlers
Canoe sprint continues to be an area within sports research that is not thoroughly explored, resulting in a limited number of studies that examine muscle activity across varying intensities and the dynamic changes in peak muscle activation over a distance. This study aims to bridge this gap by providing comprehensive insights into muscle engagement among canoe paddlers, with a specific focus on simultaneously assessing 16 muscles. This study is the first in Latvia to use electromyography to analyze canoe paddlers' muscle activity. The study's main objective is to evaluate muscle electromyographic activity and the sequence of achieving peak activity in canoe paddlers at loads of varying intensity. To accomplish the research objectives of examining the electromyographic activity of the brace and the sequence in which muscles reach their peak activity in canoe paddlers at loads of varying intensity and to evaluate differences in electromyographic muscle activity and the sequence of reaching peak muscle activity at loads of varying intensity, a laboratory study was undertaken at the Healthcare in Sport Research Centre of Latvian Academy of Sports Education (EASE). The study involved five adult canoe paddlers who are masters of the sport, possess extensive experience in international competitions, and have been engaged in canoeing for more than six years. The primary methods employed include electromyography (FreeEMG 1000 with 16 wireless surface electrode sensors), video analysis (BTS SMART DX infrared cameras), and ergometry (Dansprint canoe ergometer). Significant differences in a brace's average and peak muscle activity at loads of varying intensity were observed. For example, Participant No. 2 exhibited a mid-trapezius peak activity of 701 units at the start of the 2-min test, which decreased to 421 units by the end of the test. The muscle activity during paddling was asymmetric, with notable differences between the paddling and opposite sides. For instance, in the 200-m test for Participant No. 4, the average gluteus medius peak muscle activity on the opposite side was 722 units, whereas on the paddling side, it was 199. Additionally, by the conclusion of the 200-m test, Participant No. 5 experienced a rapid decline in gluteus muscle activity, coinciding with a reduction in paddling power. Across all participants, the gluteus medius and gluteus maximus muscles on the opposite side exhibited significantly higher peak activity than those on the paddling side. This finding may explain the observed asymmetry in pelvic musculature among canoe paddlers.
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In the red canoe
In this rhyming picture book, a young girl describes the magical encounters with wildlife that she and her grandfather witness while out in the red canoe.
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Idleness, Water, and a Canoe
This book describes the cultural significance of two centuries of recreational paddling in Canada, illustrating through contemporary interviews and published sources what the experience of canoeing has meant to the sport's participants.
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Canoe days
A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.
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“APPROXIMATE” WIGGLE-MATCH DATING APPLIED TO EARLY AMERICAN MUSEUM OBJECTS
Wiggle-match dating of tree-ring sequences is particularly promising for achieving high-resolution dating across periods with reversals and plateaus in the calibration curve, such as the entire post-Columbian period of North American history. Here we describe a modified procedure for wiggle-match dating that facilitates precise dating of wooden museum objects while minimizing damage due to destructive sampling. We present two case studies, a dugout canoe and wooden trough, both expected to date to the 18th–19th century. (1) Tree rings were counted and sampled for dating from exposed, rough cross-sections in the wood, with no or minimal surface preparation, to preserve these fragile objects; (2) dating focused on the innermost and outermost portions of the sequences; and (3) due to the crude counting and sampling procedures, the wiggle-match was approximated using a simple ordered Sequence, with gaps defined as Intervals. In both cases, the outermost rings were dated with precision of 30 years or better, demonstrating the potential of wiggle-match dating for post-European Contact canoes and other similar objects.
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