PaddlingPitt

These two images are from 2001, when Kathleen and I paddled the Snowdrift River, Northwest Territories. Boarded up windows to deter...

Enjoying the detailed narrative and the excellent images.

Day 2 (cont.) Scenery was definitely top notch, as we paddled past sloughs and ridges on clear waters. For canoes, I had brought a...

Day 2 Dawn was clear and cooler, but not yet fall. The large opening of the Lean 3 gave a perfect view of the sunrise. The fall...

Day One Four o'clock did indeed come quickly. I grabbed what I thought would be the last hot shower for the next 8 days and roused the...

Pre-trip Preparations Without our usual paddling partners, we had immense flexibility in trip timing. My son is homeschooled, so not...

Sometime in the past three years, likely as the result of some Canoecopia presentation or perhaps the River Kings Namekagon video...

Your writing is mesmerizing, Erica.

Thanks Pitt. Few people know what being in the bush for long periods is really like. The North, The Natives, The Isolation, The Wildlife.

To change context, I've been doing more than my usual lurking along the shore in 2025. I've been paddling a lot more this year than in...

Here I am with my schnitzengruben.

Black Lake, Ilwaco WA

I actually thought about editing my response, to change “read” to “responded to.” Then I decided not to bother, concluding that no one...

It’s been a long time since anyone has read one of my trip reports. Glad you liked it!

I've been slowly digging into trip report archives and just finished this epic. Fantastic trip, fantastic report, fantastic photos...