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Kathleen and I have returned from the Yukon River, but it will take me a while to prepare a good trip report. In 1996 we paddled the South Saskatchewan River in Alberta, and presented it as a slide show to our canoe club in Vancouver. It was sort of a satire on our more dramatic canoe trips on the South Nahanni, the Thelon and the Coppermine Rivers. Over the last several decades we have given presentations on our various trips multiple times each. But we have presented the South Saskatchewan...

Recently got back from a trip on the Milk River in southern Alberta. The Milk River starts in Montana, makes an arc into Alberta and then flows back into Montana. We went from the Del Bonita Campground to Writing on Stone Provincial Park. Sunday, July 10, 2022 We left home about 8:00 a.m. and got to the campsite on the North Milk River near Del Bonita about 4:15 p.m. The rest of the crew was already there and doing some last minute organizing. We had previously arranged for a shuttle...

I am active on a couple other canoe/backcountry sites, and have been actively exploring our great outdoors since my early teens, over 40 years ago. Being from Alberta, river tripping is more common than flatwater tripping, though I just got back from a glorious 5 day trip on Maligne Lake, in Jasper National Park. Simply outstanding beauty there, hard to be beat. I have paddled mostly tandem, with a couple solo trips, but am currently (for 3 years that is) building a solo stripper. I also...