Charles Ruechel: Canoe Paddling

Charles Ruechel started with adventure with his first whitewater canoe trip in the Yukon many years ago. He says it felt like he discovered kind of like a dirty little secret that no one else knew. Except for the really big adventures, and explorers. He realized that in order to do a really big adventure, let's say one that's like a month long, you're actually only completing a series of day long adventures 30 times. And he felt like this was an amazing secret that he wanted to share with people: that you can get far into the wilderness and do amazing trips with your friends and family and establish these amazing connections with people. And anyone really can do it. It's not actually that hard. (Assuming you have the right skills and equipment.) If you have the skills to be gone for a weekend, you have them to be gone for a month. That's where he started, in the Yukon, doing trips and working for the National Outdoor Leadership School for a while and also taking some training.