Paddler's Guide to Happy Camping
This is Kevin Callan's blog about his trips, his (mis-)adventures, and his favourite gear.
April 2008 archive
Anne's Kopka River Jerky Recipe 
I''ve been asked about Anne's camp recipe that I have been showing during my presentations this spring and thought the best thing would be to put it on the blog (plus the video of her making it) Enjoy. We did. Sweet and Sour Beef Jerky Stir Fry Anne Ostrom made ...
National Canoe Day Celebration - June 26
Dear Paddlers: Last year in a CBC poll, the canoe was named one of the Seven Wonders of Canada. To celebrate, the good folks at The Canadian Canoe Museum threw a party on the Thursday before Canada Day. This year, we'd like to keep the celebrations going. There's going to ...
Kopka Part 3 - Walleye for Dinner (again)
Kopka Part 3 – Walleye for Dinner (again) High water continued to make our trip interesting the next day, starting soon after we had left camp that morning. Our map indicated that the river took a dramatic turn to the right, at the end of an elongated eastern inlet. It ...
Kopka Part 2 - radio interviews from the deep woods
Kopka River Misadventures - Part II It was lunch time when we finally found our way around the moderate drop and a group decision was made to take it easy for awhile and drift with the tail wind, munching away on our daily supply of P&J and bannock. We made ...
Canoe Route Clean-Up
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We all do it. We sit around and complain about canoe route maintenance, ramble on and on about how the government should be doing more, grow more and more paranoid over the protection of “lost” routes, question the mentality of those who leave all that garbage and toilet-paper mounds at ...