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Imagine you have a family of six, and they are all heavy eaters. And when I say heavy eaters, I mean heavy, like 3,000-plus calories a day.
Now imagine that on your next family shopping trip you have to buy food for your family for the next 50 days. That's three meals a day, two bannocks a day, snacks, dessert and extra meals just in case. In sum, we are talking about over 200 dishes — there are no redos, no emergency trips back to the store and no straying from the plan.
Oh, and did I mention ...
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 Big Blue, a 17-foot wood-canvas prospector made by Headwaters Canoes in Wakefield, Que. After some repairs, it's ready for the dance. My two old canoes are works of art, embodying the feeling of all canoemen for rivers and lakes and the wild country they were meant to traverse. They were made in the old tradition when there was time and the love of the work itself ... When l look at modern canoes, of metal or fiberglass stamped out like so many identical coins, l cherish mine even more … Sixteen feet in length, it has graceful lines with a tumble home or curve from the gunwales inward … No other canoe I’ve ever used paddles as ...
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With the rest of my brothers hastily gobbling up all the “cool” topics (bugs, food, equipment) for blog post fodder, I found myself left with the task of ruminating about what we will spend 90 percent of our time doing. You know, the part where we all hang out together.
Given my completely undocumented hardcore credentials, it may come as some surprise that it is NOT enduring endless hordes of blood-sucking insects, nor calmly facing down raging headwinds, or even suppressing mounting self-doubt ...
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It sounds incredible, but it’s true: some canoeists enjoy pulling 50-kilogram-plus boxes attached to their heads for several kilometres at a time.
This breed of canoeists prefers wannigans, wooden chests with leather straps made famous by French-Canadian fur traders, to dry bags (the term is borrowed from Ojibwa waanikaan, meaning "storage pit"). These boxes aren’t exactly the most durable or practical pieces of equipment; wannigans are prone to leaking if they’re submerged in water for long periods ...
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Posted by Jonathan Metcalfe
on Monday, June 04, 2012
The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide how he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa. -Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
The enthusiasm with which our group has stormed forwards with this project cannot be understated. To help develop curriculum on Canada’s North by recording an expedition across it is the ...
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