Paddler's Guide to Happy Camping
This is Kevin Callan's blog about his trips, his (mis-)adventures, and his favourite gear.
February 2009 archive
The Future of Canoeing is in Good Hands
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Wilderness Canoe Symposium in Toronto with my buddy Andy. It’s a fantastic event made up of well known (and some not-so-well-known) canoeists who present on amazing far northern adventures. The only problem is that Andy and I have noticed the last couple ...
Nova Craft Canoe and Fanshawe College collaborate on new canoe designs
Nova Craft has been doing some incredible projects lately, all to enhance the future of canoeing, and I strongly believe they deserve some major recognition for it. The canoe company, based in London, Ontario, has always built good canoe designs (my favorite is their Prospector). But lately they have gone ...
Andy and I presenting on the Kopka in Kingston this Wed. - nudity may be included,
Not sure why Andy agreed to this but him and I are presenting together this week in Kingston for the Friends of Frontenac on our Kopka River trip. It's a very unique presentation. A group from the club went on the river after seeing my video of Andy and I ...
Cory Trepanier's new film release - A JOURNEY TO THE MAJESTIC NORTH
I've seen Cory Trepanier present before and I've seen his past films. You won't be disappointed at his latest. I can guarantee that. Here's info, on the film launch: The Compelling Story of Artist Cory Trépanier’s Journey to Explore and Paint Canada’s Western Arctic Caledon, Ontario: On Thursday, February 26th, ...
Speaking on Quetico at the Toronto Outdoor Adventure Show this Weekend
- Posted on February 17, 2009 at 4:57 PM
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Hello, Here’s a heads up on this coming weekend’s Toronto Outdoor Adventure Show at the International Center. I’ll be there presenting (Friday at 5, Saturday at 3:45 and Sunday at 2) on "Celebrating Quetico Provincial Park's 100th Anniversary" by showing pictures and film of my favorite places to paddle in ...
Happy Valentines. Have you made love outdoors lately?
- Posted on February 13, 2009 at 1:21 PM
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Check out love outdoors I found the site the other day and got a good giggle. So did everyone in my office. It seems many of us share this little secret of making love outdoors somewhere in our lives. For us Canadians, making love in a canoe beats joining the ...
Warning! Porcupines will pee on your head if threatened.
It started off as a boring day. I had organized a class trip which I ended up cancelling due to freezing rain; a nasty morning to be driving the lesser maintained side roads. So I took the students out to the back woods behind the campus to do their ecological ...
Navigable Waters Act - beware the naive paddler.
I stand corrected. I was naïve enough to state a few months back that there would be no way the government would go through with their idea to exempt thousands of rivers from the provisions of the Navigable Waters Protection Act by calling them “minor waters” and exempting “minor works” ...
MEC's Big Wild Challenge is a Major Success Story
- Posted on February 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM
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I was sent this update on Mountain Equipment Co-op's Summer 2008 "The Big Wild Challenges" program and thought everyone would like to have a look. It's a great project; one that's guaranteed to expand every year. WHAT’S THE BIG WILD? The Big Wild is at its heart a community website ...