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Kathleen and I have returned from the Yukon River, but it will take me a while to prepare a good trip report. In 1996 we paddled the South Saskatchewan River in Alberta, and presented it as a slide show to our canoe club in Vancouver. It was sort of a satire on our more dramatic canoe trips on the South Nahanni, the Thelon and the Coppermine Rivers. Over the last several decades we have given presentations on our various trips multiple times each. But we have presented the South Saskatchewan...

Last summer (2017) my wife Kathleen and I paddled 17 days and 330 km (205 miles) in the East Arm of Great Slave Lake. I am new to this site, but would like to share some memories and images. If you can bear with me, I will need to do this in stages, but will try to update a little bit more each day. We live in Preeceville, Saskatchewan, and drove 2,400 km (1,500 miles) to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, from where we were flown into Old Fort Reliance at the east end of Great Slave Lake...

Using a card scraper to flatten and smooth the epoxy surface of a freestyle paddle. One of several steps before final finishing.