**Article Originally Posted May 2019** In my life I have never regretted any of the trips that I have taken. My November 2018 canoe trip on the Gibson-McDonald route with Mark Highfield might be the one exception as we raced against Mother Nature to get one last trip in before enduring 5 long months of winter. The... Continue Reading →
Darren and Dave’s July 2011 Brent Run
**Article Original Published July 2nd, 2011** Finding The Brent Run Back in the late fall of 2010 David Welte, who was now living in Austria, and I set our sights on an ambitious canoe trip in the summer of 2011. Dave was returning home for a few weeks so we thought that we would book... Continue Reading →
The Bad Break – Emergency in the Back Country
original post: Mon, 08/07/2017 The pic above shows Darren and I about to paddle an injured Mike to the waiting float plane to get him to the waiting ambulance. I’ve been paddling since I was young and paddling specifically with Mike since we were about 14; on multi-day trips all before cell phones were a... Continue Reading →