Stand-up paddleboarding -- the summertime sport that has been sweeping the globe -- has found its way to the Aiken camp in North Hero, Vermont. I've been out twice and didn't even fall the second time after four tumbles the first time out. (In my defense, there was like a 30 mph wind blowing straight out of the West that first time. Took 20 minutes to paddle out; 30 seconds to come back in.).
The popularity of the new sport comes as no surprise, really. Look at the mystery boarder in the photo. Complete serenity; the boarder is at ease in the water environment. Not a tense bone, muscle, or cell in his body; he's like a Buddhist monk at peace with the natural world.
It's a new chapter in camp history that will go down in the annals as the "SUP era."
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