Adventures in the outdoors
As our time for summer trips was coming to an end, I continued my search for backcountry canoe trips that we could complete before I had to head back to work. I once again got lucky and managed to snag a two night booking at Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park. It was in the middle of the week, but with sites hard to come by this summer Dan booked the time off from work and off we went.
Continue reading “Escaping to Kawartha Highlands”
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”
Have you ever taken a floaty on a canoe trip? It’s not something you’d normally take on back country trip – I did take a small one on the trip I took for my 40th birthday – but this trip with my son had no portaging, so we brought something a little bigger. What did we bring? Well you will have to continue reading to find out.
Continue reading “Mother-Son Trip to Algonquin- Part 1”