Advocacy
Remembering Our Friend: Sigrid Pilgrim
Last December, the paddling community lost one of its premier members. Sigrid Pilgrim, a dynamic leader and promoter of paddle sports here in Illinois and beyond, passed away December 21, 2022, at the age of 78, after a hard-fought battle…
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IPC’s Statewide Online Paddler’s Resource Map Project
(Note: the above map image is for illustrative purposes only) Any good paddling trip starts with good information. If you don’t know where you are going, it’s going to be hard to have a good time. The Illinois Paddling Council…
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IPC and Canoecopia 2023: See you there!
The Illinois Paddling Council again looks forward to exhibiting at Canoecopia 2023 hosted by Rutabaga Paddlesports in Madison, Wisconsin. We’ll be there with information and handouts and the always-popular but never-to-be-taken-lightly lowhead dam simulator, which graphically demonstrates what happens when…
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