Tag: Dave Bard
Trip Report – 10 Apr 2023 – Green’s Creek
This is our 2nd annual spring run of Green’s Creek in Ottawa. The name will be familiar to most Ottawan’s as there is a big sliding hill in winter that takes its name. The creek itself flows through greenspace for most of its length and passes just at the bottom of the sliding hill. This…
Trip Report – Upper Petawawa 3-5 Sept 2022
In preparation for our planned Nahanni trip next summer, my father needed a bit of a refresher whitewater trip! The objective was the Upper Petawawa from Cedar Lake to Lake Travers, about 40km of river. We had been planning a trip later in September but my father was unavailable then and as another group of…
Trip Report – Feb 2009 – Adirondacks – Colden, Marcy, Algonquin
This was my first real backcountry camping trip, it was memorable for many reasons and my more experienced friends really picked the “hard” difficulty level for my first trip. Being in the Adirondacks and in winter, this was hike in/hike out style, in a mountain range and in an area where there is a campfire…
