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Exactly-solitude is where you make it. Many rivers have less traveled branches, and the time of year can make a difference, though we’ve been to places on holiday weekends seeing nary a soul

Loved this

Not canoeing or water related; read November 1942 by Peter Englund and am continuing with The Beauty and the Sorrow about WW1. November 1942 is a fascinating account of the turn of the tide for the allies during that time period, told though diaries and first person accounts from people around...

I’ve always loved Fur Traders. For years I thought the young boy (his son) was his wife. I believe there’s a follow-up painting of their return trip and the son looks older, now.

Photo on left is a “life journal” of our old Grumman. The black & white images are prints I made honoring journeys made. A diary of water and wear.

Here's my take: a loving "self-portrait"of our old Grumman-the image on left is a photo of its bottom, a landscape of memory via rock, sand and stone. Image on right, my take on it in oil.

Just finished The Wager by David Grann. Excellent writer, great tale. And followed it with Owen Chase's first-hand account of the shipwreck of the Essex, the whaling boat attacked by guess who?

Was just thinking of Bingham's Fur Traders- have always loved that. cheers

Our c.1953 13' Grumman is called the "Clyde Griffiths". (look him up-)! Haven't named our other canoes/kayaks, though I call an untrustworthy $5 kayak "Little Dumpy".

this forum.! Dropped out for a while. But I recently stumbled across a beautiful piece of writing in Granta magazine called "Silt', by Robert MacFarlane. (Granta Magazine Issue 119: Spring 2012) About a place called The Broomway on the Essex coast in England- "'the deadliest' path in Britain and...

Much appreciated. Getting ridiculous and sad. I opened the can of worms today~ will follow this.

Thanks for this.

Seconded. Thanks, Gerald for posting above article rien n'est sacré?

Thanks for this, we're thinking of heading that way this summer and was a bit confused re: nomenclature- Reserve Faunique/La Verendrye Provincial Park. Forever heading North~