Tag: Sunshine

  • Trip Report – 10 Apr 2023 – Green’s Creek

    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 – 1850s Vintage Trip – Rideau Canal – Jun 2011

    Trip Report – 1850s Vintage Trip – Rideau Canal – Jun 2011

    Rowing 4 days with vintage equipment on a naval whaler through a UNESCO world heritage site and it’s series of locks? Yeah that sounds like a challenge! Several years before, through working with the Scouts, a project was initiated to refurbish two Naval Whalers that had been acquired. With the Rideau Canal, opened in 1832,…

  • Trip Report – Awacamenj Mino – Jan 2011

    Trip Report – Awacamenj Mino – Jan 2011

    This is actually 2 trips to the scout camp at Awacamenj Mino, one in early January to open the snowshoe/skiing trails and the other in late January for some camping and snowshoeing. Trip 1 – Breaking in the trails This was just a simple daytrip up to Awacamenj Mino to break in the trails for…

  • Trip Report – Noire River 30 Jul – 2 Aug 2011

    Trip Report – Noire River 30 Jul – 2 Aug 2011

    My first (and only so far) trip down the Noire river (Black river) near Fort-Coulonge, Québec, Canada. This was organised to be a more leisurely trip with many being introduced to whitewater canoe-camping and several girlfriends coming along for the trip. The Noire river, is a good easy introduction to canoe-camping, there are a few…

  • Trip Report – Nov 2011 – Adirondacks – Panther

    Trip Report – Nov 2011 – Adirondacks – Panther

    A quick overnight trip to climb a few mountains in the Santanoni range of the Adirondacks. It being November, the weather had a different idea than we did! Day 1 – Getting there and Weather We set off from Ottawa in a few vehicles planning to meet up some friends at the lean-to at the…

  • Trip Report – Mar 2016 – Adirondacks – Couchsachraga and Panther

    Trip Report – Mar 2016 – Adirondacks – Couchsachraga and Panther

    This was a quick overnight trip in the Adirondacks with objective to conquer Couchsachraga and Panther on the way. This was late February so it does not technically count as Winter summits, we did not need snowshoes, microspikes were required and there was still a good amount of snow all around. Day 1 – Getting…

  • Trip Report – 19-23 Feb 2014 – Allen & Santanoni

    Trip Report – 19-23 Feb 2014 – Allen & Santanoni

    This trip was our push to summit Mt. Allen in the Adirondacks in winter. Mt. Allen is one of the longest hikes (almost 30km) but we needed it to be ADK46ers! We planned to climb Santanoni, Couchsachraga the next day and Seymour the day after. Day 1 – Getting There Since Allen is quite the…

  • Trip Report – Lower Petawawa – 16-18 Sept 2022

    Trip Report – Lower Petawawa – 16-18 Sept 2022

    While the original plan was to re-do the Upper Petawawa only two weeks after doing it the first time with a different group, our experience made us change plans and run the Lower section instead. It was also a good opportunity for me to run both sections of the river! The water was once again…

  • Trip Report – Upper Petawawa 3-5 Sept 2022

    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 – 20-23 Aug 2010 – Coulonge River

    Trip Report – 20-23 Aug 2010 – Coulonge River

    This was my first (and only as of 2022) trip down the Coulonge river. The Coulonge, Noire and Dumoine are tributaries of the Ottawa river, in the same area and good for whitewater oriented trips. For this trip we had 12 participants: Burg, Gibe, Wissell, Sylvain, Val, Master Trooper (Dan), Dan’s father, Julien, Marty B,…