COULD YOUR CANOE SURVIVE THESE RAPIDS?
Steel River, Ontario. Mad River Explorer (Kevlar) canoe Kettle River, MN. Alumacraft aluminum canoe My first remote country canoe trip was in 1974. We began at Folliet, Ontario and cruised the Groundhog River to the Mattagami, then down the Moose and on to Moosonee on James Bay–a distance of around 200 miles/21 days. I had […]
A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE!
Boundary Waters Canoe Area, 1972 BWCA 1972 Many years ago, I outfitted and guided three wealthy Chicago men–the least affluent of which earned a quarter million a year–on a five day canoe trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota. I was asked to provide the finest food, equipment and hospitality–whatever it took to […]
MY SON IS TRYING TO KILL ME!
Upper Wedding-Cake Falls Land of the Lost West of Lake Nipigon, in the rocky shield country of Ontario, there flows a spectacular river called the Kopka. Along its length is one of the most magnificent falls within the tree line. Here, at what was once called “Mink Bridge Portage,” the entire contents of the river […]