Adventurer wants Tahoe canoe speed record

Grant Korgan of Incline Village trains to attempt a record setting canoe trip on Lake Tahoe. Photo/High Fives Foundation

Grant Korgan wants to set a canoe record on Lake Tahoe. Photo/High Fives Foundation

By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal

Paddling a canoe around Lake Tahoe would be quite an accomplishment for most people.

Grant Korgan isn’t most people. He wants more.

The relentlessly positive Korgan wants to make the trip in fewer than 16 hours, which would be a world record.

The 38-year-old from Incline Village is making the attempt as he continues to recover from a severe spinal cord injury suffered in a snowmobile accident in 2010 that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

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