I just received an invite thru my e-mail to join this group, so I did. I'm reside in the States and at least twice a year do some paddling in your beautiful...
Hi Matt, and welcome: I've never done the Spanish River but I've heard it's great with a lot of navigable rapids, except for one set called the "Graveyard"? ...
A canoe for one person or two? $500 will get you an older but serviceable canoe from one of the better makers. Or $400 will get you a brand new Coleman plastic...
Following is the account of a reenactment canoe trip taken this autumn. To write such an account necessitates taking some liberties with the truth. To begin...
It's Friday morning, 7 a.m. - I pick up the phone and dial, "I'm just calling to report in sick this morning. I'll be back on Monday." It's Friday morning,...
Hi Paul: Great trip report. Sounded like a great time. Some of my most memorable outings were 2 or 3 day trips. We always look forward to the planned, extended...
Announcing one week fur trade re-enactment canoe trip - tour of Voyageur's Highway border lakes between Minnesota/Ontario, Participants meet in Ely, Minnesota....
Day One: I meet Nibimocs at 5:00 AM, outside Britton's Cafe in Ely, Minnesota. We shake hands and go in for an omelete. By 5:40 am we are through eating and...
Day Two: We sleep late. At 7:15 AM I finally start the fire and began cooking bacon, eggs, and hot Tang. Two of the eggs have cracks, but they have not...
Day Three: We are up a little earlier this morning, and I start the fire and put on steel cut oats with craisins and maple sugar from my sugar bush. We eat and...
No great plan, but hope lac Superior Exploration Co. members will consider digging some watape on the Oct. 22 trip - a start anyway. We will need about 30...
"From the village of Madawaska on Highway 60 follow the Major Lake Road for 26 kilometres (crossing the Hydro transmission corridor) to the Access Point Office...
Andy Anderson had been having a run of bad luck. Without going into any great detail, suffice it to say that he felt a few days in the Algonquin Backcountry...
The following day was uneventful other than the fact that Andy left his hat behind at the Wenona Lake put-in and we were obliged to go back up the Lake to...
At the far end of Hogan Lake there is a narrow channel that leads to an oblong bay, which then empties back into the Little Madawaska River. As we worked our...
The end of the portage is about a kilometre from the mouth of the River at Radiant Lake. And Radiant Lake is just that - radiant, or so it seemed to me at...
Ron headed off downstream and we pushed up the Lake to the portage at the Portal Rapids into Bruntroot Lake where we found a sleeping bag on the ground. It...
