My friend Greg Stamer has been working diligently on a new website & blog in preparation for his upcoming trip to “The Rock”.  Now you may notice that “website” is really tied into expeditions these days and of course there are a few reasons for this. The most important of which is simply that we’ve all found that blogging is the perfect way to share our trips. It’s pretty easy these days to upload pictures and post the story almost “live”. Which is pretty cool. The blog of course is just the latest line in a long history of storytelling. Over centuries the campfire has given way to LED.

Greg will be beginning his unsupported, 1700 mile solo circumnavigation of Newfoundland in June. Recently “The Rock” as its known, has been circumnavigated by other world class expedition paddlers such as Wendy Killoran of Canada and Hadas Feldman & Tomer Sabag of Israel. Each drawn to an amazing environment filled with wildlife and Ice bergs.

There is of course much more to Greg than just expedition paddling. His first love as many of us know has been traditional paddling. Greg was part of the first American team to compete in the annual Greenland Kayaking Champion ship in 2000 and won in his age group in the World Class competition. In 2002 he returned and won another gold medal for rolling. In addition Greg Stamer is the founder and president of QajaqUSA and manages their website as well. The amazing growth of traditional paddling we see today owes its popularity in no small part to guys like Greg, Harvey Golden, Doug Van Doren who have worked to promote the sport here in the states and around the world. He may not jump up to take credit for the all that he’s done for the sport, but that doesn’t stop me from pointing fingers! 

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