Allan Jacobs wrote:
Thanks to david and SGrant.
You guys and your friends do incredible trips; they make ours look like a Sunday-school outing. I've decided that my main accomplishment on this forum is to entice paddlers like you to let the rest of us know the variety of trips that can be made. ...
Just to be clear, I wasn't on the Back/Ellice trip, and although I'd like to, haven't done a trip anything like that.
I have seen a book that lists major canoe trips in northern Canada since the Europeans arrived. I think I posted the name of it on CCR a couple of years ago. The trip my friends did is not in the book, however.
They rented a hall here in Vancouver and put on a very entertaining slide show about their trip. One canoe started the trip as a wreck, and required continual fibreglass repairs, stuck through a tent to keep it warm enough for the resin to set. On the portage between the Back and the Ellice, one energetic participant just rushed off with one of the canoes, and got lost on the tundra for a while. Their sail-assisted crossing of Queen Maude Gulf required two attempts, the first one almost costing their lives in a multi-day storm.