adventure

Butter Cream, Gritz, Crystalline Micro-Pow… those are just a few of the names we gave the snow under our skis on Monday afternoon. We were sliding on one of our farming neighbor’s pastures, and the dust-on-crust conditions from last week had evolved into about one inch of icy, crystalline powder… Read the rest

After a break of several days in Southend, Saskatchewan we began paddling the Reindeer River. Our time in Southend was spent as it is in most towns, catching up on computer work and eating foods that we crave while in the woods. We stayed in a little cabin at Nordic… Read the rest

With a brief window of calm winds, Crystal and I readied Swell to move east among the atolls. With the news of Barry’s passing, I wanted to check out what was rumored to be a new boatyard on an obscure strip of coral a few atolls east, plus with a… Read the rest

Greetings from Swan Lake. We have made quite the transition since our last update. We went from paddling and lining upriver to paddling downriver. We bade farewell to the Fond du Lac as we waded and worked the canoe through a maze of boulders where it trickles out of Wollaston… Read the rest

Montana, particularly Northwestern Montana, is well known for its abundance of a delicious deep purple delight, the huckleberry. This is a story about huckleberries; it is merely disguised as a Montana adventure.
It all began on a Tuesday morning with a homemade huckleberry latte and a trip to the Boise,… Read the rest

Our time on the Fond du Lac River is nearing an end. We have seen it change in character, from tumbling over granite boulders into Lake Athabasca to winding through magnificent sandstone ledges. It has definitely shrunk in size as we have traveled upstream over the past week.
We spent… Read the rest

Greetings from the Fond du Lac River. Since our last update, we have left the sloping granite shores of Lake Athabasca and begun paddling among the sandstone ledges of the Fond du Lac River.
Our stay in Stony Rapids was amazing thanks to Ed at the Whitewater Inn and Waterfront… Read the rest

We have spent the past week paddling on Lake Athabasca. After making our way off the Tazin River through a series of lakes and portages, we came out onto the big lake near the community of Camsell Portage. It is a very small town, but they do have all the… Read the rest

Have you ever seen a forest fire up close? We hadn’t until this past week. On Tuesday as we left Hill Island Lake, we could see smoke toward the south but we figured that it was a long ways away. On Wednesday, the plumes of smoke grew closer and closer… Read the rest

Our travels have been good since leaving the dam on the Taltson River. I will try to sum up the highlights of the past week. We decided to have a rest day at a beautiful campsite high up on a granite slope. Dave managed to catch three Lake Trout over… Read the rest