Paddler's Guide to Happy Camping
This is Kevin Callan's blog about his trips, his (mis-)adventures, and his favourite gear.
June 2008 archive
National Canoe Day a Huge Success
Yesterday's National Canoe Day celebrations, organized by the Canadian Canoe Museum, was a huge success. Paddlers all across Canada helped celebrate by gathering on the water for a paddle, including London, Toronto, Windsor, Winnepeg and New Brunswick were some of the major contributors. The museum itself had 84 canoes and ...
River Navigation Issue Update
Here's an email I received from Doug Skeggs of Canadian Rivers Network www.canadianrivers.net. Have a look at the video. You'll de fintiely be impressed with their dedication towards this cause. Kevin Callan Just a quick note to let you know that the TRAN committee of parliament has submitted its report ...
London is Winning with Canada's National Canoe Day Celebrations
- Posted on June 23, 2008 at 9:28 AM
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Canada's National Canoe Day celebrations are this week, June 26th. and it looks like London Ontario is in the lead with numbers of paddlers gathering in one spot. An estimated 2,500 are to paddle the Thames this Thursday. The challenge is on! Check out the article: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/06/20/5936171.html
Camp Cooking Recipe from a Kayaker
- Posted on June 20, 2008 at 8:40 AM
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After yesterday's blog of some recipes I got an email from a pair of kayaking friends who wanted to share their favorite camp cooking recipe as well. Here it is, from Birgit Kuhle and Susan Vokey: Ah, yes - the famous apple recipe - started as part of a meal ...
Some Favorite Camp Recipes
Last weekend I gave a presentation at the MEC Paddlefest in Toronto on Camp Cooking and promised to post a few of my favorite recipes. Here they are: CHICKEN CURRY Ingredients: 1 can of dehydrated chicken 1 can of dehydrated curry sauce my favorite is Pataki’s Korma or Vindaloo flavor) ...
Speedo Man Visits Algonquin
Speedo Man Visits Algonquin I’ve had some odd-ball canoe partners in my life but my neighbor, Ashley McBride (a.k.a. Speedo Man) takes the cake. The first time I experienced his odd behavior is on a mid-summer paddle down the French River when he proudly sported a skin-tight, G-string black Speedo ...
CBC Radio Fresh Air Kopka River Interview - part 4
Here's part 4 of 7 of Jeff Good's CBC Radion Fresh Air Interview done by satalite phine while I was paddling the remote Kopka River in northwestern Ontario.
Kopka River - Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow (Part 5)
Part 5 Not far downriver of the last falls and remaining rapids was another section of whitewater, where the Kopka enters the far eastern end of Wigwasan Lake. A 150 meter portage was marked on the left bank but we actually ran this one, rating it a technical CII. None ...
MEC Toronto's Paddlesfest this weekend! 
I thought I'd send everyone a reminder about the exciting MEC Paddlefest in Toronto this weekend. I'll be there, presenting at the store Friday night (9:00 pm) on the Kopka River and other great caneoing misadventures. And I'll be at the beach site (Sunnyside Beach) all day Saturday, presenting on ...
Algoma's Ranger Lake Loop
He're a short video clip of one of my all-time favourite canoe routes - the Ranger Lake Loop. It's written up in my book A Paddler's Guide to Ontario's Lost Canoe Routes, is approx. 7 days in length, starts at either Ranger or Gong Lake, goes up the Wet Aubinadong ...
Great Wilderness Clean-Up Final Tally
- Posted on June 2, 2008 at 4:32 PM
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The total tally is in. Nancy Maddock (head organizer for the Great Wilderness Clean-Up 2008 project) is in. What an amazing event. Have a good look at how other places, including Brazil, US and the UK, contributed this year. This volunteer event started off just a few years ago with ...
Lost Paddle Update
- Posted on June 2, 2008 at 2:19 PM
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Where's My Lost Paddle Now Last season during a canoe trip with my wife and 3-year old daughter in Ontario's Chiniguichi areas I lost my paddle...and then found it again in a very, very odd way (thanks to paddler, Brian Round). The story below tells the tale. A very exciting ...
Building a Canadian Canoe -Eh!
Building Canadian Canoe – Eh! It was a plaid boat that started this whole crazy canoe chronicle. Yep, the same “what’s up ye kilt” plaid. I was looking for something different in a canoe; not the design itself but the general look of it. After all, filmmaker and canoeist, Bill ...