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North Bay rocks. It’s pretty much the epicentre for canoeing in Ontario. Temagami, APP, the James Bay drainage rivers and so much more are a stone’s throw away. Lots of good escape routes for the doomsayers in the crowd. Lived there for 6 years, and would move back in a heartbeat.

Newest member of the Royalex solo club! Found my gal a Yellowstone!

There’s two seasons in my household, hockey and canoeing. My kids live for their yearly canoe trip. It’s a necessary escape from the city life, and they love the swimming and fishing under waterfalls, building forts, the rush of running whitewater, cooking and playing with the campfire, They...

World of Maps in Ottawa is great to deal with, great people and they ship all over.

Hard to say, I’d imagine they were still there, they just didn’t bounce your face as much. Maybe they looked like a big set of ears, which is their favourite part of a moose. Always wanted a dragon fly tattoo on my shoulder as a deterrent for when I’m tarps off. Coolest insect ever besides the...

Back in my tree planting days we did kind of the same thing except with a cattail head or some other weed by taping it to the hard hat. Worked well for the deer flys and horse flies not so much for the skeeters and black flies.

No float plane really limits your options in Northern Saskatchewan, and makes it tough to get away from people. Sounds like you want some whitewater. Something on the Churchill corridor would probably work, like the Weaver River. It’s a short shuttle from Missinipe to where you start and you’d...

2024 was pretty decent, took the family on the Bloodvien for 2 weeks in July and solo circumnavigated Lac La Ronge in September. Both trips were great, and both surpassed my expectations. 2025 will hopefully see the family heading to a mountain river in the Yukon and maybe a solo trip on...

Not a fan of the specs, seems undersized.

Better add the Caribou S on there too!

Esquif and swift need to hook up. I’d buy it if it were made in t-formex.

I am a diehard canoer, but.. Kayaks have made heading deep into the woods possible for my family with 3 kids. We managed for a few years when they were super young to squeeze into our 18’6 MacKennzie and do some 2 week trips but eventually it was just too much and we bought our first kayak, a...

Pretty sure non residents of Canada need a permit to camp on crown lands, it’s like 10$ a night. The chance of running into anyone enforcing it up there though would be slim but you never know, there’s COs and RCMP stations in Stoney.

2 weeks on the FdL is basically the trip Archer describes in her book with a flight into the outlet out of Wollaston to where the river dumps into Black Lake. Another option is to do the Waterfound with a vehicle shuttle into Waterbury lake and then a plane pickup at Black Lake. You could also...

Funny enough, that’s not the case now. The best part of the entire trip from LaRonge to Stoney is from Points onward to Stoney. As soon as you turn off from Hidden Bay, the road widens considerably and its well maintained. They’ve put a lot of work into it. The worst section is from Southend to...

The Fond du Lac is an amazing river, one of my favourites. It’s a pretty easy river to access and now that the highway between Points North and Stoney Rapids is an easy 2 hour drive, the trip can be done without a bush plane if you’re up to some big lake travel. There’s lots of friendly locals...

It would be hard to find a piece of alder that clear, mahogany is a good bet

Agreed. It’s used quite a bit in lower end residential construction in western Canada. It does have a different sweet burning smell when working with it. I like to use it in some of my laminations when I build paddles, it adds a nice colour contrast and sands very similar to basswood.

I’ve done too much research and not enough action on this exact route and would have to agree that Recpeds route would be the one I would choose. I’ve heard lots stories of the White Partridge River being a canoe eater and that the route leaving Snowbird is a tough go through lower ground with...

Did the Methy in 2009 after coming down the Clearwater in super duper high water. The first 5 km out of the valley was an exhausting climb up a steep greasy clay trail rutted up by quads and the remaining 15 km was through ankle to knee deep water again made worse by the quads. Dang near caused...