Search results

As far as I know, all Canadian trains will carry canoes and related baggage for a fee. The train will drop you off anywhere you want. The train will also stop for you at any point and let you board the canoe with all your gear. I boarded a VIA train at Senneterre going east, toward Monet. I...

Thank you for your compliment and vote of confidence. Mostly crowds of people terrify me. :eek:

Yes, Gale. I will keep writing. We are less than 1/3 through the trip.

I rented a winonah with a bucket seat for a trip in the Adirondack’s. I hated it. I can’t sit in a bucket and paddle. My body just isn’t built that way. Regular bench seats have always been my preference because they allow for so much variety in seating options and where to put legs and feet...

Nope. Nothing so easy. If I ever try this again, I will probably go in on the Kekek.

Great TR, Sadie. Thanks for bringing this round again.

Traveling alone, my biggest fear are the two-legged ones, for sure.

I broke an ankle which has left me with numbness and funny sensations in that foot and calf. That ankle also tends to roll. And I’ve lost proprioception in that limb, meaning that unless I am looking at it, I don’t know where it is. I have many of the same problems you do, getting in and out of...

Connecting Day In my struggle to pull the packs off the train tracks and down the embankment, my body, without permission from me, did a backward somersault down the embankment. My fall stopped abruptly when I became wedged between two trees, one on my left shoulder and one on my right hip...

I paid about $2500 CAD to fly with my boat from Stony Rapids to Cree Lake in Saskatchewan.

Thank you! 💙

I’m working on it. Should have the next section out in a couple of days. I’m not exactly a spring chicken either…

This is the best moderated forum I've every participated in, in some 20 years or more of participation in forums. Thank you, Glenn. If it degenerated into being overrun by kayaks, I'd be gone in a flash. There may be people here who have kayaks, but they also have, appreciate, build, use and...

I recently found and bumped up another of Alan's trip reports, but now don't remember the name of the river. It was outstanding and enjoyable too. We have I suspect a treasure trove of old trip reports that could do with another read.

As memory has it, I think we must have started near the source because the river was very narrow through a marsh with hairpin turns. By the time we took out, it was wide and lake-like with motorboats.

The first river trip I ever took was on the Wisconsin River as a girl scout. Today, Darren Bush of Rutabaga Sports posted what he calls a "snippet" about The River in his heart, which is the Wisconsin. I saw a part of this river, don't know which, more than 55 years ago. Has anyone paddled it...

We did that at Girl Scout camp.

I bring some version of homemade trail mix. This year it was pecans, M&Ms, dried cranberries and coconut flakes. It hangs out in the day bag for dipping into as needed. I put mini chocolate bars in with dinners as dessert. I make pancakes instead of bannock. Whole wheat flour, powered milk...

I’ll just mention that my interest in purchasing a Trekker hiking staff received 3 replies. Two were scams - thank you Glenn for helping me sort that. The one from Craig’s list forwarded to me by Glenn turned out to be real and I did purchase it.

Congratulations to your daughter. I like the fish in the mouth accent.