Hiking in Algonquin PP

Long Weekend Hiking & Cycling

Accommodation: Mew Lake Yurts
Campers: Sue, Chris, Helen, Me
Location: Algonquin Provincial Park
Cycling: Rail Trail (25km)
Hiking: Centennial Ridges (10km), Hemlock Bluff (3.5km)
Other: Visited the Haliburton Wolf Centre

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Canoeing the Barron River

Family Canoe Trip

Campers: Peggy, Tom, Helen, Me

Description: 18 km round trip, several portages under 500m, 1.5 km hiking trail, a spectacular canyon

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Backpacking the Itijjagiaq Trail, Katannilik TP, Baffin Island, NU

Katannilik Traverse - Exploratory

LOGISTICS
Hikers: Wendy Grater (guide, Blackfeather), Sally Manning (guide), Karen Tippett, Gerry Irving, US
Pack Weights: Helen 56 lbs, Dann 86 lbs (From scales prior to trek). Everyone carried equivalent amounts.
Location: Katannilik Territorial Park
Photography: All from K&G. scanned analog
DVD Available: Get copy from Store

Publicity: Our trip was featured as article " Meta Incognito " by Sally Manning, Up Here Magazine, April 2000

Petawawa River: Whitewater Training

Basecamp Canoe Camping

Private Vehicle: Kinburn > Lake Travers, Algonquin PP

Campers: Chris, Rick, Helen, Me
Rapids: Big Thompson several times for practise

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INSTRUCTION: Canoeing the Dumoine River, PQ: Lac Robinson > Stonecliff, ON

Our FIRST Whitewater Course

LOGISTICS (ON / PQ, CANADA)

Private Vehicle: Kinburn > Des Joachims, PQ

Bus Shuttle: Des Joachims with Blackfeather > Lac Robinson, DUMOINE R., PQ
Course: Blackfeather Canoe Clinic
Instructors: Kristen Hayes, Scott, Jamie Gupthill, JF Carrey

Tandem Canoe: Lac Robinson > Dumoine R. > Stonecliff, ON - CII+, 4days, 30 kms.

River Speed: 5-7 kms/hr
Private Vehicle: Stonecliff > Kinburn
Certification: ORCA Level 1A

Our first day was spent travelling to camp and setting it up, we arrived late. Second day we practised a number of strokes at a set of CI where the Dumoine empties into the lake. On the third day we shuttled further upriver a few kilometers in the van. We ran a CII just below Le Grande Chute and then continued downriver through several more sets, ending back at Lac Robinson and camp for the night. On the final day we paddled out about 25 kms more, running a dozen sets of rapids; CI > CII+ ... never dumped.

DUMOINE Photography

N'Awlins

Microsoft Conference ... Gertie, Helen and Me

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