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After paddling for more than three months, roughly 1,300 miles and being half damp, mostly hungry and often sore, Katey Clautice wants only one thing for her birthday: a hamburger complete with candle.

That celebratory meal on Sept. 1 would mark not only her 27th birthday, but also the end of a kayaking tour from Seattle to Haines Clautice will have completed with her partner, Doug Clawson, and their daschund Li'l Bit.

Their trip, however, has a purpose greater than most. ...