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The main focus here is wilderness canoe expedition paddling information. No fancy logos (yet!) or unneeded graphics --definitely no distracting flashing, twirly little thingies -- just solid info, plainly presented, on your passion -- Wilderness Canoeing. How to do a trip where we've been, with tips on how to possibly set off on your own to where few, if any, others have been before. The list of canoe trips below includes both river and lake routes which I, and others, have done over the last several years. As of now, only one trip, the North/Black/Liard run, is anywhere near complete (includes pictures), but it is because that one turned out to be a very interesting challenge for all participants. We could not find any other information available on canoeing there, so I am providing lots more than what you would normally see given in a similar source. Consider it sort of the "test run" for trip info for this site. Some of the other trips listed below, are -- so far -- just trip reports, or journals, with minimal other information. I'll add support info and pictures as I have time. Feel free to bug me.... Pictures are provided when I have suitable ones that show what the trip is like. Some links below go to just galleries of pictures of that run, with little or no other supporting information. Some sort of trip description and other info for most of them will eventually appear here, but the info supplied will not be quite as overwhelming as that supplied for the N/B/L trip, especially the destinations that have other info readily available. I'll provide links to other sources on the Web for all trips when I know of them. You can help out by pointing out relavent sites I missed. Contact me at: hank@canoebase.com Paddle Trips ListExpedition Trips List
Short Trips List
Day Trips List
More Wilderness Canoe Tripping Web Sites -- A page that offers links to other Web sites with info like this one, other canoe trips, route info, tripping ideas, or canoe camping hints, and tips. We spend most of our time on rivers in the western Canadian northwoods, but there are rivers and areas included above with more coming. Until I get the information up on the other unlinked trips listed above, I'd be glad to answer what questions I can about those runs. Also, if you'd like to present one or more of your own trips in this collection, see Your Trip Page. Our first such "guest writer" is Dan Colodney. There's a link to his Mountain River NWT Trip Report above. The second guest writer is seven year old Adam Taylor with a draft of his Green River Trip Report (with some pictures), also linked above. Wilderness Tripping 'How To', Maps, and GPSA second area in this User's Wilderness Tripping section will be some the basics of wilderness canoe camping on rivers and lakes. It will start small and never be an all-inclusive tutorial as there are many good books available on this subject. Other very good information can also be found on the Web and I will point you to good resources there that I know about now, and others I find at a later date. Feel free to inform me of ones you think I missed: hank@canoebase.com. In articles, I'll just be covering areas where I see a need for more info than I've found available elsewhere. To start, there's an article on caring for Gore-Tex rain gear. For a while, a major portion of this 'How To' area will be map coordinates and the global positioning system, or GPS -- a new technology just becoming affordable to wilderness travelers. This section primarily covers how the knowledge of coordinate systems can make map reading easier on your wilderness trip, and also try to show how using a GPS unit can make it more fun and even simpler yet. Go to: Wilderness Tripping 'How To', Maps, and GPS info pages
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