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Star Tribune highlights historic trip

By Kari VanDerVeen
September 23, 2011

"They faced rapids, bears, and boredom, spending three excruciating days in their tent playing cribbage waiting out a monster storm," Star Tribune columnist Gail Rosenblum writes about St. Olaf alumnae Ann Raiho '11 and Natalie Warren '11, who recently became the first women to canoe the 2,250 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay.

The duo followed the route taken in the book Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid, which took them upstream on the Minnesota River to the Red River, then up to Lake Winnipeg to the Hayes River before finally ending at York Factory in Manitoba, Canada. It took them 85 days but, as Rosenblum notes, they raised more than $4,000 through their journey, of which half will provide scholarships at YMCA Camp Menogyn.

They chronicled their experiences along the way on their blog.

Contact Kari VanDerVeen at 507-786-3970 or vanderve@stolaf.edu.