The Canoe Guru is a 3rd generation canoer who spends his freetime canoeing into the most pristine and spectacular valleys of the world.  He has taken top honors at 2 World Championships, a World Cup and a World Extreme Race.  He enjoys living out of his canoe for weeks at a time, and he sleeps comfortably under bridges and buses.  These days he usually brings his tent although he more often is found sleeping in a hammock beside a warm riverbank in pursuit of his passion.

The Canoe Guru began his teaching career with the Boy Scouts in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  Since then he has taught courses for the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Smokey Mountains, La Ola school of paddling in Germany and Austria, the Bear Paw Outdoor Center in northern Wisconsin, the Canoe Rack in Montana and Idaho, Oxford Riverside Center in England as well as participating in numerous other fantastic demos and canoeing events around the world.

The Canoe Guru loves to spend his free time paddling around the Smokey Mountains.  However, seasonally he alters his activities when he becomes fearful that his beard might freeze to his pfd. 

He is a nationally registered EMT-B with a specialty in wilderness medicine. He is an instructor with Landmark Learning, www.landmarklearning.org, a clearing house of sorts for outdoor educators in need of a variety of professional skills.  Through Landmark Learning, he teaches WMI of NOLS wilderness medicine curriculum as well as canoeing and river rescue skills.

The Canoe Guru has also worked with many leading outdoor adventure companies around the world.  He has shared fantastic adventures with clients in New Zealand, Austria, England, Scotland, Costa Rica, British Columbia and the US. 

He worked his way up from washing wetsuits as a teenager to a whitewater rafting rivermanager in his 30's before realizing he was happiest when his office fit in his boat.

After spending a decade chasing the most infamous river waves on the planet, The Canoe Guru has returned to the Asheville, NC area to stay central to his family and some of the best canoeing in the world.  Stay connected to The Canoe Guru with the waves of the web, or click here for your next adventure.