Quadriplegic Kayaking Mississippi with Wilderness Inquiry & Comfort Carrier thru Lock & Dam 1
The patented Comfort Carrier is available from Broadened Horizons Inc. designed by the disabled for the disabled!
Mark Felling, President of Broadened Horizons and designer of the Comfort Carrier went kayaking with wildernessinquiry.org down the Mississippi River through Lock & Dam 1 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to demonstrate the possibilities for other disabled individuals. Mark also modified the Ocean Kayak Malibu II to allow someone with limited or no hand dexterity to paddle independently either solo or tandem. Adaptions can be added or removed in minutes. Will Wheelchair backrest frame and paddle holder arm design which I later modified from Disabled Adventurers. Plans are available to make your own adaptions or if there is sufficient interest, Broadened Horizons may make an accessible kayaking kit available. A sip and puff powered kayak kit is also possible.
North High Students Explore Fort Snelling State Park with Wilderness Inquiry & UWCA
Students from North High School in Minneapolis, MN had the opportunity to explore Fort Snelling State park as part of the Urban Wilderness Canoe Adventures (UWCA) program. They learned how to fish and canoe, and also learned about water quality testing, voyageur culture and history, and more with this innovative programming. This excellent footage was produced by iDream.tv and Minneapolis Public Schools.
Urban Wilderness Canoe Adventures (UWCA) 2010
The UWCA program is all about getting students from the Twin Cities outdoors to learn new skills and discover the National Park that exists right in their backyard. In 2010, we served over 6,000 people on the Mississippi River.
The UWCA is a partnership of the National Park Service, the Mississippi River Fund, and Wilderness Inquiry.
Thanks to Brian Peterson for a lot of the photos. Thank you to Paul Spring and the Okee Dokee Brothers ( for their music.
Fort Snelling State Park ride
Right in the middle of the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area is a state park at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. The song is Girl shaped love drug by Southport's own Gomez.
Wilderness Inquiry: Summer Staff Training
Fort Snelling Tour - Fort Snelling State Park
Come explore our state's proud and sometimes painful history on this tour. Some of the sites it will lead you past are: Historic Fort Snelling, Coldwater Spring, and the lovely Minnehaha Falls.
Visit to explore more stories of the Mississippi River.
Wilderness Inquiry receives Nonprofit Excellence Award
Wilderness Inquiry received the 2010 Large Organization Excellence Award for Non-Profits at the Minnesota Nonprofit Awards Ceremony in Duluth, MN. WI is incredibly honored to be recognized with this award as a leader among Minnesota's non-profits.
Video production by Emergence Pictures (
Minnesota Bound: Roseville Students Paddle the Urban Wilderness Canoe Area
Ron Schara's Minnesota Bound recently found about 150 kids having a great time on the Mighty Mississippi.
Heidi Ferris, a Roseville Science teacher, just hopes this excursion gives the students a sense of place. She also hopes they take away a connection to the water and river.
From the looks of things, the trip was a huge hit!
-Produced by Ron Schara Productions, aired on Kare11
Minnesota Great River Road - Metro Region
See the Twin Cities area from a new perspective - on and along the Mighty Mississippi. A National Park dedicated to the Mississippi River leads the way, surrounded by a tremendous variety of attractions and activities for all.
Sarkar Family, USA Travel Minnesota Fort Snelling State Park June 2007
Sarkar Family, USA Travel Minnesota Fort Snelling State Park June 2007
Nature Valley: A Proud Supporter of Wilderness Inquiry
Nature Valley is a proud supporter of Wilderness Inquiry, a non-profit connecting people from all backgrounds, ages and abilities through shared outdoor adventures. WI is all about access, inclusion, and opportunity. We believe exploration of the natural world is a birthright we all share.
Two of their programs, the Urban Wilderness Canoe Adventures (UWCA) and Canoemobile focus on connecting youth to the outdoors and making an impact in communities in both the Twin Cities and around the country.
Folwell Middle School Mississippi River Event featured on KARE 11 News
KARE 11 news story on the Urban Wilderness Canoe Adventures (UWCA) featuring Folwell Middle School students on the Mississippi River. UWCA is partnership by Wilderness Inquiry, the National Park Service, and the Mississippi River Fund.
Wilderness Inquiry's Executive Director Greg Lais named SJU Social Entrepreneur of the Year!
Greg Lais, Wilderness Inquiry (WI) Founder and Executive Director, has been named St. John’s University / College of St. Benedict Social Entrepreneur of the Year!
To learn more, see the blog post here:
The award recognizes Greg’s achievements, his business acumen, and his commitment to humanitarian values in his work and life. WI is unique among outdoor education and travel organizations, serving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Since 1978, WI has provided outdoor experiences for more than 350,000 people on adventures throughout the world, including people with disabilities, youth living in poverty, and families with special needs.
Proposals Seeking Legacy Funding
Several proposals before the Senate Environment, Natural Resources and Legacy Finance Committee are outlined in an effort to secure funding from the dedicated sales tax account.
Barred Owl at Fort Snelling State Park. St.Paul, Minnesota 6/10/2013
I have been spending a lot of time in the park the last couple of months watching this one along with another Barred Owl, most likely it's mate.
State of the Union Address 2018 and Democratic response: Coverage and live stream from CBSN
President Donald Trump gives his first official State of the Union Address from the United States Capitol in front of a joint session of Congress.
Our live stream begins at 5:00 p.m. and will continue through Trump's speech, scheduled for 9:00 p.m., and the Democratic response that follows. Our coverage continues after both speeches through midnight.
You can also follow the CBS News Live blog of Trump's speech here:
Representative Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) will be delivering the Democratic response, shortly after Trump concludes.
CBSN, the 24-hour streaming news network from CBS News, will have live, wall-to-wall State of the Union coverage from 5pm through midnight, including reporting and analysis from both sides of the aisle leading up to President Trump's speech and the Democratic response and will include the CBS News Special Report coverage from 9 - 11 pm.
The State of the Union Address is an annual, wide-ranging speech a sitting president delivers before Congress early in the year. That speech is used to reflect on the progress of the previous year and help set the president’s agenda for the coming year.
This is Trump's first official State of the Union Address. The speech Trump gave last year to a joint session of Congress was not called the State of the Union. A president’s address during his or her first year in office is never referred to as a State of the Union address because after just a few weeks into his term, a new president isn’t expected to know the full state of the union.
Ann Bancroft | Wikipedia audio article
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Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955) is an American author, teacher, adventurer, and public speaker. She was the first woman to successfully finish a number of arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.
The Shadow by Arthur Stringer | Audiobook with subtitles
A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way.
Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and poet. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other books in addition to writing numerous film scripts and articles. See:
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
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