A TRIP TO Sigurd Olson’s iconic Listening Point always has much to offer. There is the historic cabin, and the ‘portage trail’ to and from. The musical leaf-counting of a red-eyed vireo.The peaceful view out to the pine-clad islands. Making friends with a tiny gray tree frog. The delicate beauty of a pale pink corydalis, my favorite Northwoods plant. The
WOULD YOU LIKE to hear a great story? Full of fate, adventure, and happy serendipity? Okay, go grab a cup of coffee, I’ll wait… There. Ready? So it’s 1987, and after years of guiding in the Boundary Waters-Quetico region, I’m leading my first big expedition—520 miles on northern Saskatchewan’s Churchill River. We are paddling this route to retrace Sigurd Olson’s
I’M SO VERY PLEASED to share the news that my memoir, ‘A Wild Path,’ has been honored as a ‘notable book’ by the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards. As you may know, Sig Olson was my author-hero as a young man, a true mentor, and to be included on this very short list of fine books—and those of past