Whiskeyjack Lake and Limestone Islands Provincial Park are the coolest places I visited this year. La Cloche Silhouette trail is a 80 km hike around Killarney Provincial Park. The most popular section of it being "The Crack" hiking trail. This is a 4 km section of it (8 km round trip). Top of "The Crack". …
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I was looking for trails closer to home and came across the Limberlost Forest and Wildlife Reserve. They have over 70 kilometers of hiking trails with five main loop trails that I was able to piece together with their trail map. August 13th 2017 Solitaire Lake loop:Â This trail is a 6.3 km loop trail around …
I was looking around Google Earth and somehow happened upon this place, Sansawaju Mountain. It is located just off of Grassy Lake Road, a road I am familiar from tree-planting in the area. I headed up Friday night and spent the night at the old Shinning Tree camp located at 47.499838, -81.312946. The old campsite. September 16th, …
While circumnavigating Franklin Island during the Franklin challenge, I noticed some Islands that seemed really close and I would have loved to have paddle to them. Once I got home, I looked them up and found out they're called the Mink Islands and they're 5 km of open water away. Even further than the Minks …
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Katie on the Georgian bay. In the distance: Elizabeth Island. May 23rd 2017 - Paddle on the bay One day after work Josée and I decided to go for a paddle on the Georgian Bay. We went to my co-workers Katie's place and from there we did a short paddle along Huckleberry Island. Our goal …
Two weeks before Jo and I set off on our five day trip in Killarney, I checked out its topographical map. I noticed a peak − Peak 489 − that seemed to tower over all the other peaks, safe for Silver Peak. Peak 489 overlooks O.S.A. Lake and potentially Georgian Bay. Saturday morning, I woke …
Josée and I go on an annual canoe trip. Our trip to Killarney last year was a little too cold and buggy, so this year, we pushed our trip back a week – to the second week of July. We also wanted to change up our food. So the day before our trip, we dehydrated …
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At work, Rob told me about the Franklin Challenge; a 20 km paddle around Franklin Island. It was a fundraiser for Treetops Community Forest, a piece of land that will be developed as a wilderness park. I woke up at 5:50 am to a few texts and a missed call from Rob. I called him …
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