Ann Raiho (left), Myhan, and Natalie Warren pose in front of Stone Harbor Wilderness Supply after completing a 2,000-mile canoe trip to Hudson Bay in 2011. Warren and Raiho will be back at Stone Harbor on Feb. 23 to speak at 4:30 p.m. about their trip and talk about what they are up to now. The question of the day is, will Myhan also appear with Raiho and Warren? Come and find out.
Two St. Olaf graduates (both with ties to Cook County) who became the first women to paddle 2,000 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay in 2011 are returning to speak about their three-month paddle. They will be at Stone Harbor Wilderness Supply on Saturday, February 23 at 4:30 p.m.
Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren will tell their story about following the path Eric Sevareid chronicled in his book Canoeing with the Cree.
Since their trip ended, Raiho has attended graduate school while Warren spent a year speaking about their adventure and then started Wild River Academy in Washington D.C. in 2012. Wild River Academy hosts three-day river trips designed to connect high school girls with successful women. It also seeks to inspire women to grow through wilderness adventures. Early this year Warren moved the business to the Twin Cities with her friend and business partner Nick Ryan.
Warren, from Miami, Florida, and Raiho, from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota met at Camp Menogyn in 2007, getting to know each other on a 50-day canoe trip into the Canadian wilderness. Raiho has even longer ties with Cook County, coming to a family cabin up the Gunflint Trail with her parents since she was young.
“Ann and Natalie have done presentations here in the past and I feel they are a real inspiration not only to adults in the community but also young folk; in particular the young women and girls at the middle and high school level,” said Stone Harbor owner Jack Stone.
Both young ladies are entertaining, enlightened, and inspiring speakers. The goal of their presentation is to encourage people to pursue their passions, resulting in greater opportunities for themselves and their communities. Maybe they will even play guitar and sing as they have in the past.
At any rate, it will be a chance to find out what happened to Myhan, the loveable puppy a Cree chief suggested they take with them to ward off polar bears the last 200 miles of their trip. Maybe Myhan will even be with them. Better come and find out.
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