My wife, my friend and I had a nice 6 night stay in Algonquin. We did approximately 50 mile figure 8 shaped route with over 6.5 miles of portaging (nearly 20 miles of walking because we double portage). Weather was better than could be expected, got rained on once or twice by passing clouds but no sustained rain all week.
This may not sound like a lot of paddling but we spent a lot of time on the water and on the portages. My buddy had just been diagnosed 2 days before the trip with Lyme...
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This is it. My first wilderness camping trip ever. The good news is I was bringing my canoe and my Sweetheart. Our first vacation together, been dating since December 2013. I don’t have a lot of camping experience and I really didn’t want to look stupid on this trip in front of the one I love. How’s that for adding some pressure to a vacation? I’ve been reading and trying to carefully select gear for this trip. My Sweetheart also purchased a bunch of clothing and gear based on my...
My wife teaches grade 10 experiential/outdoor ed program and she did an overnight trip with her students in preparation to there 8 day trips coming up, and I was part of the trip as a technical chaperon/ lasagna cook!! We did the trip on a local river where we both teach canoeing and run for pleasure many time in the summer, there is a rock garden section and a class II-III rapid closer to the end. It was great weather and the river had comme up since the week before so the rapid was a bit...