Sue's Outdoor Crew Archives - Page 7 of 42

August 5, 2020August 4, 2020

French River Voyageurs Channel Trip – Part 1

Even though we typically like to travel for at least a couple of weeks in the summer, this year it was jut not possible, but we still wanted an epic adventure. So, Dan took a couple of weeks of vacation and we sought out to plan something other than an overnight or weekend adventure. As I scoured through maps and books with different canoe routes to conquer, we settled on heading to the French River and completing a similar loop to one in Kevin Callan’s Top 50 Canoe Routes in Ontario.

July 29, 2020July 23, 2020

Mother-Son Trip to Algonquin – Part 2

Plan B… that’s where we left off right? Well as you read in part 1, plan A was to paddle and portage to the falls, but after realizing that it would take about 6 hours to complete the round trip we made a plan B. Hayden was very pleased to know there was a plan B which would mean us paddling back to the car – load it for the drive – and drive to the falls access trail. To be honest, I was happy that was the decision we went with for a couple of reasons…

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

Mother-Son Trip to Algonquin- Part 1

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.

July 15, 2020July 16, 2020

First Kayak Camping Trip – Part 3

Disaster struck as I woke to prepare breakfast for us on Sunday morning. Inside the Ursack, a couple of the farm fresh eggs I had brought cracked open and oozed everywhere.