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I can’t find the meaning of symbols next to threads, such as a “bell” or a “question mark.” I assume that Glenn or Alan knows. Clarification, please.

Kathleen and I went on our last wilderness canoe trip in 2022. We thoroughly enjoyed sharing silence with our friend the Barren Grounds. But age caught us, and we sold our 565 acre property in Saskatchewan, and moved to 0.39 acres on Pender Island, about halfway by ferry between Vancouver and...

Just happened to come across this. I was amused. Dear Miss Manners: I go canoeing with several other retirees. One member of our group has a habit of squatting in the river to urinate instead of going behind a bush and dropping her drawers. I don’t think she should assume that it is OK to ride...

I was thinking about Odyssey's comment in the Total Eclipse thread to "Keep in mind there are so many smaller miracles equally mesmerizing which we miss on a daily basis." True enough. I wondered with Kathleen what events in our lives truly stand out as mesmerizing, great or small. One of the...

Kathleen and I began canoeing and tripping fairly late in life. She was 38 and I was 42 for our first northern trip on the South Nahanni River, NWT, in 1990. Our last trip, in 2022 was 17 days on the Barren Grounds 300 km (200 miles) east of Yellowknife, NWT. It is January, the month that I have...

When I was an adolescent, I read a lot of Ernest Hemingway. Yesterday I searched for reasons about why he committed suicide, and came across this 1920 article he wrote about camping out. A tight, direct prose similar to his later novels...

Several people in the thread in the Winter Storage Question asked me for more planning details regarding how Kathleen and I planned for our winter sojourn north of the Arctic Circle (Our Winter of Content in Canada's Western Arctic), followed by a canoe trip down the Anderson River to the...

I was not aware of this event. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/two-row-on-the-grand-1.7026531

I have some paddling acquaintance, all excellent paddlers, who are inviting participants for a guided, three-week, 600 km (375 mile) trip in the Northwest Territories. The fee for a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 10 participants, with two guides, is approximately $16,000 CAN ($12,000 US) per...

In 2019, Kathleen and I paddled the Yukon River, from Whitehorse to Dawson City. The following is what I wrote in my journal at the end of that trip. Kathleen and I had spent 17 days and 7,250 km (4,500 miles) on the road to live only 14 days on the Yukon River. Was it worth it, some might...

I have a Garmin eTrex GPS purchased in 2000. I have rarely, if ever, used it for navigation until this past summer. But on our canoe trip in the NWT Kathleen and I were supposed to be picked up by float plane at a specific location. So I entered the coordinates as a waypoint, even though the GPS...

Glenn, What is the source of the Happy National……. Day that appears near the top left of the screen? Do you ferret these out yourself?

This photo contest might be of interest to all those who are paddling Canadian Lakes this summer! https://livinglakescanada.ca/our-programs/lakes/lake-blitz/

Kathleen and I have often given a slide show on our expeditions in northern Canada, with an emphasis on natural and cultural history. Many of you will have seen some of these images in my previous trip reports, but the emphasis here is quite different. I hope you enjoy it. Glenn suggested that...

I tried to attach an image from my iPad, just to see if I could. But the site did not seem to give me an option to reduce the image size, which left it too large to be uploaded. Any suggestions?

Here’s a story on The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about 8 canoeists on the Clearwater River in Northern Saskatchewan who had to be evacuated because of an approaching fire. Does anyone else a rescue/evacuation story you would like to share...

I want to see if I can post, but I don't really have anything to post about, having already used up all of my trip reports. Canoe trippers have many ways that they deal with mosquitoes and black flies. When Kathleen and I first started tripping, we bought head nets. After about five minutes we...

Kathleen captured these images this morning. Moose hung around just outside our sunroom for 35 minutes. Great way to enjoy our morning tea. Minus 30 C (-22 F)) this morning. But calm and sunny. ​​​​​​​

Kathleen and I have started cleansing all of our shelves and closets and storage areas of stuff we will never use again. It is a monumental task. We try to spend at least one hour per day. One shelf contains pre-digital camera equipment, as follows: Minolta X-9 camera body with a 28-70 mm Macro...

A good news story! Birch bark canoe returned to master builder's family almost 50 years after it was made https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...mily-1.5782773