The Fugawi of the Adirondacks
There’s this stupid joke that aboriginal peoples’ original name for the Europeans was ‘Fugawi’ because everywhere they went they’d say “we’re the fugawi!”
Har har har. On Saturday they were talking about me.
Today, my arms are criss-crossed by tiny scratches and welts that resemble some form of strange ritual scarring.
On Saturday I climbed my first Adirondacks high peak.
Touring Temagami: what I did on my summer holidays
Irene and I spent seven days in Temagami, a wilderness area six-ish hours’ drive from Ottawa, about 100km north of North Bay. Read the trip report. Photos, prattle and information.
Lac Echo weekend
Irene and I went camping this weekend with Mike and Brenda. We went to Lac Echo in the Papineau Labelle wildlife preserve. Not a bad alternative to the usual Ottawa-area haunts. Obligatory trip report with photos.
Kiss the rock: Palmer Rapids again
I was at Palmer Rapids last weekend, learning more about whitewater paddling with the Y Canoe Camping Club. I’ve posted my report with pix in valid XHTML strict.
Yobs of the jungle
Irene and I went to the Ottawa showing of the Waterwalker film festival last night. Some good, but one utterly excerable film that I feel I must whine about.
Algonquin Park terror
My first ever solo trip: four days through Algonquin Park. Beautiful weather, some hard work and absolute terror. Read all about it.
The North Boundary Loop
I just got back from the longest canoe trip I’ve ever done. Ten days, 109km and a couple dozen portages through Killarney Park, just south of Sudbury, in Ontario’s Near North. Read the report.
Photos from BC hikes posted
My sweetie and I were recently in BC, visiting friends and doing a little hiking. BC’s wilderness is quite mindblowing. I have posted some photos I took. The gallery app is new and still sports its default appearance.
Kiosk trip log posted
I have posted my trip log for a trip I took with Irene a week or so ago. We did a five day loop around the north end of Algonquin Park, starting at the Kiosk access point.
Palmer Rapids trip journal posted
So I’m learning to do whitewater canoeing, with the Ottawa Y Canoe Camping Club. Yes, I may have had my ORCA Flatwater III when I was 18, but out there in the bubbly stuff I’m a rank amateur. Here is my trip report.
Summer is here
I swatted my first mosquito coming back from Easter dinner at my sweetie’s folks place in Kemptville yesterday.
The Ontario Parks backcountry reservation system must change
The backcountry reservation system for Ontario’s bigger parks is insane. It encourages abuse, requires exceptional long-term planning, and yet makes it impossible to plan. It must change. This is a rant about why.
Compression-dry bags: gear that I’ve been waiting for
So I’m a gear head. I admit it. I love camping and having good gear makes a huge difference. Since I first discovered dry bags and compression bags I’ve always pined for a compression dry bag. Now MEC has them.
More park in the Nahanni
Becky Mason has an article in today’s Globe and Mail (see A paradise not yet lost) calling on the federal government to protect the Nahanni river.
Killarney Thanksgiving trip journal posted
I spent the Thanksgiving long weekend on a canoe trip in Killarney Provincial Park, put on by the National Capital Region YMCA Canoe Camping Club. The name is as long as the portages, but they’re worth doing. As is my habit I’ve posted my trip journal with photos to my web site.
