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Bike, kayak, canoe, snowboard with Birds Eye Outfitters Sault Ste Marie Michigan

Kayak journey through the Canadian locks with Birds Eye Adventures
Thomas Wilmer

It’s a new venture for Ken and Wilda Hopper in Sault Ste Marie. It’s an evolving work in progress where the couple’s headquarters specializes in “coffee, beer, and gear” in addition to rentals, sales, Birds Eye Outfitters offers cool guided kayak, stand up paddle and canoe adventures to the far side of St. Mary’s river and through the locks on the Canadian side of the waters. 

Join correspondent, Tom Wilmer for a visit with Ken Hopper at the Birds Eye Outfitter headquarters on East Portage in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.  

Getting ready to paddle cross the river to Canadian Locks with Birds Eye Outfitters, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
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Getting ready to paddle cross the river to Canadian Locks with Birds Eye Outfitters, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
Ken Hopper at his Birds Eye Headquarters where Coffee, Beer, and Gear is the house specialty in Sault Ste Marie Michigan
Credit Thomas Wilmer
Ken Hopper at his Birds Eye Headquarters where Coffee, Beer, and Gear is the house specialty in Sault Ste Marie Michigan
Middle of the river on the Canadian side Sault Ste Marie Canada to the left
Credit Thomas Wilmer
Middle of the river on the Canadian side Sault Ste Marie Canada to the left

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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