Paddle The Peace 2013

 It’s been a while since we were last paddling, but having moved up to Peace River in Northern Alberta we could not resist the annual Paddle The Peace. This is an event that started a few years ago and is a wonderful opportunity to get out on the river and share a paddling experience with …

Inuvik Update – Strong Headwinds & Close Encounters with the Big & Hairy Kind…

Well, it has been quite the trial getting from Norman Wells to Inuvik where I am currently updating from. As I wrote of on my last update we were caught in a huge rainstorm which I was worried would sweep the tipi and gear away into the river. We spent the next day drying all …

Fort Simpson Update

It has taken us a little longer to reach Fort Simpson than we had originally planned, but only a couple of days. The weather has been very changeable and we have been hounded by more thunderstorms and high winds which have slowed or stopped our progress each day. We are almost at our 3-month milestone …

Stage III Completed – Long Days, Hard Paddling, Maddening Insects & the Challenge of Great Slave Lake

I barely know where to begin for this blog. It feels such a long time ago that I last updated (and it was, as the Fort Smith update did not work – since corrected) and so much has happened. Slave River was hard the entire way up to Great Slave Lake. The river was muddy, …

Fort Smith & Ration Collection (2nd Upload attempt, from Fort Providence)

Upon leaving Fort Chipewyan we headed up the Rivieres Des Rochers, which, when it joins up with the Peace River becomes the Slave River as it continues on to Great Slave Lake.  It was a hard paddle. We had put in at a creek called Mission Creek which leads out of the town and skirts …