Meet the team who crossed all 5 Great Lakes by paddleboard
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Three men from Michigan are riding a wave of excitement after accomplishing an extremely rare feat — traversing through all five Great Lakes using stand-up paddleboards.
Three men from Michigan are riding a wave of excitement after accomplishing an extremely rare feat — traversing through all five Great Lakes using stand-up paddleboards.
Their most recent trek took place last month when Kwin Morris, Jeff Guy and Joe Lorenz crossed through Lake Ontario in about 13 hours.
That marked the fifth and final crossing of a Great Lake over a 12-year span — all with the goal of raising money for organizations which support and preserve the Great Lakes.
Morris told CTV News Windsor the idea to do this spawned from a conversation with friends at a 2014 Christmas party.
In June 2015, Morris and four others paddled across Lake Michigan in about 24 hours.
"We learned that cold water is actually better because it keeps the waves down. But we froze. We weren't prepared. We didn't realize how long it would take us and what we would face out there," said Morris.
That first trek resulted in two people dropping out of future Great Lakes crossings. Morris, Guy and Lorenz decided to push forward.
