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Mina Hubbard, most of us know, made a major expedition into Labrador after her young husband died there. But I hadn't heard a...

Well, I just surfaced, I have been reading Ramblin Boy's extensive post about the connection between Selwyn Dewdney and Norval...

The more interesting trip would be to put in at the Ogoki Bridge, paddle upstream to the reservoir and make your way down to Cliff lake...

Random thoughts - We got on in Armstrong for a scheduled 9 am. Train rolled in at about 9:50. 1 hour 10 mins later we were...

This subject seems to be an annual thread each winter. While I like Gamma’s winter training regimen and it seemed to kind of work for...

I don't remember why, but neither Kathleen nor I took any pictures on our way up to Inuvik. Perhaps because once we arrived at Colville...

Thanks for being picky, wjmc. You are, of course, right. That's what I get for being in a hurry. Indeed, my notation on the slide...

Interesting... Not that I'm likely to build one (I'm more of the "drink beer all winter, get outta shape and suffer in the Spring"...

Thanks. Getting dropped in the dark wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me (I'd just sit tight close to the launch until dawn) but it's...

Yes it did, I forget the year (maybe 2020?) but they switched the Toronto departure time to mornings when it used to be evenings. When I...

It was foggy and cold this morning on the lake... No motorboats, no sailboats, no scullingboats, no other paddlers; I had the lake...

Did the train schedule change since 2017? I've seen other reports of being dropped off in the middle of the night but the schedule says...

First two photos from Mike Svob’s book published 2001. The last photo is of a self published book 1999.

Teaching emotionally challenged kids to ride horses is the most important thing I do in the winter. Sometimes the weather is terrible...

When setting up for glassing I used foam cradles out near the stems where the boat is already tough. I didn’t want to risk the hull...