Bonnechere River Trip
About a week ago I got back from a six day trip down the Bonnechere River in Algonquin Park. Now, most people do the lower section, from Basin Depot to Round Lake. Not us. Uh uh. We did the whole thing, right from McKaskill Lake… with a few variations. Ahem. Read the report.
Risk and the great outdoors
A while ago I posted a journal of a trip I did with three other Y Canoe Camping Club members in Algonquin Park in late November. You can read the whole thing but the jist of it is this: we had planned a canoe trip, but found the lakes too iced over for paddling and so we went hiking instead. And some people were pretty outraged by that.
Winter camping by mistake
It was supposed to be a three day canoe trip to Big Trout Lake, via Macintosh and the Otterslides in Algonquin Park. Didn’t work out that way. Mind you, it was the last weekend in November. Read the report.
Barron Canyon trip report posted
I spent last weekend paddling in Algonquin Park, on a YCCC trip that took us from Grand Lake to Squirrel Rapids via the Barron Canyon. Here’s the Barron Canyon trip report.
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.
