Posts tagged with ‘northwest territories’ (7)
Posted by Stef Superina
on Thursday, October 18, 2012
Michelle Swallow (left) and Farah Denkovski (right)
I recently had the opportunity to interview Michelle Swallow, author of the Mackenzie River Paddling Guide. A fortuitous meeting at the Yellowknife airport this past summer put Michelle in contact with paddling partners of mine, with whom I recently concluded a 50-day expedition to the Arctic Ocean via the Coppermine River.
When I came upon the guidebook in a Yellowknife bookstore, I was keen to find out more. Even just a cursory overview of the book’s contents gives one an indication that it ...
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Imagine you have a family of six, and they are all heavy eaters. And when I say heavy eaters, I mean heavy, like 3,000-plus calories a day.
Now imagine that on your next family shopping trip you have to buy food for your family for the next 50 days. That's three meals a day, two bannocks a day, snacks, dessert and extra meals just in case. In sum, we are talking about over 200 dishes — there are no redos, no emergency trips back to the store and no straying from the plan.
Oh, and did I mention ...
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Big Blue, a 17-foot wood-canvas prospector made by Headwaters Canoes in Wakefield, Que. After some repairs, it's ready for the dance.
My two old canoes are works of art, embodying the feeling of all canoemen for rivers and lakes and the wild country they were meant to traverse. They were made in the old tradition when there was time and the love of the work itself ... When l look at modern canoes, of metal or fiberglass stamped out like so many identical coins, l cherish mine even more … Sixteen feet in length, it has graceful lines with a tumble home or curve from the gunwales inward … No other canoe I’ve ever used paddles as ...
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With the rest of my brothers hastily gobbling up all the “cool” topics (bugs, food, equipment) for blog post fodder, I found myself left with the task of ruminating about what we will spend 90 percent of our time doing. You know, the part where we all hang out together.
Given my completely undocumented hardcore credentials, it may come as some surprise that it is NOT enduring endless hordes of blood-sucking insects, nor calmly facing down raging headwinds, or even suppressing mounting self-doubt ...
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It’s like the opening scene of a monster movie: You’re paddling along serenely, all alone in the middle of a giant lake. Make it Great Slave Lake, North America’s deepest and the world’s ninth largest. The waves aren’t too bad; the wind conditions are relatively favourable.
Feeling adventurous, you proceed along a cliff-walled shoreline. You’re feeling in control of things until suddenly, the wind picks up right when you’re at your most vulnerable. There’s no safe landing for a long distance in ...
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