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Rob, I noticed those two Helinox Ground Chair zeros around the campfire. Are you still happy with them? Here’s your chance to be an influencer!

Article made me want to visit the museum. Very unlikely, though, that I will ever be in Toledo, Ohio.

Sorry the trip is over. I don’t think I’ve ever read a “normal” person use the word ”denouement.” Only writers in publications such as the Atlantic or the Economist, and even then, not very often. Nice trip. Nice writing.

It's difficult to photograph whitecaps. We ended our day early on Great Slave Lake in 2017. It seemed much worse at the time!

Headwinds are always challenging. But I never saw any whitecaps. You could have handled more! You had this one in your hip pocket. Well done, I must say.(y)

Many members of our canoe club in Vancouver have paddled the upper Stikine. Very scenic, and not all that challenging. We were never interested. Not far enough north, and much to likely to endure rain, which I hate. About ten years ago we joined some canoe club members to paddle the lower...

Kathleen and I paddled the Thelon River in 1993, and encountered many Inuit structures along Aberdeen Lake. The word “inukshuk” means “in the likeness of a human.” For generations, Inuit have been creating these impressive stone markers on the vast Arctic landscape. Inukshuks serve several...

I’m enjoying your somewhat droll writing. Curious about why you call yourself gamma1214 when your name is apparently Steve.

Yeah! I forgot about the remembering, which is often the best aspect of a trip.

Seems like a real struggle! I have a friend who once commented on my canoe trip story on the Thelon River: “You say you like wilderness canoeing, but exactly when on that trip were you having fun?” After a slide show one time a guy came up to me and said, “Great trip. Glad it was you and not...

You seem to lose and/or forget a lot of gear!

Just a comment about the previous exchange regarding wet socks. Throughout our tripping career, at the beginning the paddling day, Kathleen and I wore neoprene socks (a.k.a. wetsuit booties) to keep our feet warm while sloshing, wading or dragging through cold water. To protect the booties from...

Glad to read that you found your backpacking stoves!

I didn’t want to go there. More problematic than evolution.

Mark Twain is one of my favorite AUTHORS. He didn’t simply write about what he saw and did during the day, as a diarist does. And of all the famous authors/diarists you listed, you offer oblique editorial comment only on Charles Darwin. Are you trying to goad me into saying something about...

Jackpine Paddle does operate out of Yellowknife, but has been in business only since 2019. Just before his death from cancer in 2019, Alex Hall, who operated out of Fort Smith, as Canoe Arctic for 46 years, handed over his business to Jackpine. https://jackpinepaddle.com/the-alex-hall-legacy/...

Thanks for improving my vocabulary, Glenn. I had never heard the word “puissant” before. I had to look it up, and learned that it is not any old adjective, but an out and out archaic adjective. Fitting, as some might say that I am archaic. Why were you discontented with the site, lo those many...

Thanks for this information, Glenn. But first, I gotta get to Berlin!

Tom, I have been worried only two times. The first was on the Thelon River. Bad judgement on our part. See below. Kathleen in italics. By 4:00 pm we had covered 60 km. A cold drizzle began midday, and intensified in late afternoon. We were about 20 km and 3 hours from Baker Lake, riding a...

Glenn, It's fair to say that they paddled on the Upper Thelon; but I think most people knowing the the Thelon River would not say that they paddled the Upper Thelon. Image below illustrates that the Upper Thelon lies between the outlet of Lynx Lake, and the confluence with the Hanbury River...