Adventures in the outdoors
For the past few years, Christina and I have gone on an adventure over the Labour Day long weekend to celebrate my birthday. This year’s celebration was a little different though since I was scheduled to start work before the weekend, thus making our plans not work out for a big trip. So, instead we decided to book our for trip right after my canoe course in Huntsville.
Continue reading “Temagami with Friends”
Would you travel around Algonquin Park covering about 420 km just to get your name on a wall? I know I would. So when my friend Peter messaged me about completing a section of a trip called the “Meanest Link” I was all in. The section we would attempt to complete was a total distance of 102.2 km that went from Lake Opeongo to Oxtongue Lake connecting the two Algonquin Outfitter stores at each location.
Continue reading “Meanest Link – Opeongo to Oxtongue”
Mother Nature would just not give us a break from the wind on this trip. We woke up early on our third morning knowing that the winds would be coming from the North – our direction of travel. It seemed the theme of this trip is early rise, paddle into the winds, then rest for the afternoon.
Continue reading “French River Voyageurs Channel Trip – Part 3”
Knowing that there might be high winds and waves in the afternoon for Wednesday’s paddle we set our alarm to get up for 5 am. That way we would have an early start and hopefully get most of our paddling complete before the weather made travel difficult. Even though we started that early we did have some challenging water to paddle before we stopped for the night. (Click here to catch up on part 1 if you missed it)
Continue reading “French River Voyageurs Channel Trip – Part 2”