I had been worrying that I might develop COVID-19 symptoms while I was out here. The descriptions I had read were of weakness and an inability to function. Feeling like someone is sitting on your chest, has been a common description. Paddling in a pandemic brings its own set of concerns – including carrying a …
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Lawren Harris Lake: Day 3
Waking Up
My Journal, 16 June 2020 “Day 3, morning Waking up to a scolding squirrel…I’m still on Loughrin Creek. I’m going to look at this as a failed attempt…too much gear. I need to get down to minimum weight. This is not it; this is expedition gear. In the future, I need to go as light …
Overreaching
One of those annoying things I know about myself is that I tend to overreach myself. I will plan on having something done in an afternoon and it will take me three days of hard work. Things just look easier in the planning stage. It was the same with this trip. I have done many …
Paddling in a Pandemic
In a normal year, my paddling friends and I would have been getting together in March to plan our summer canoe trip. This was not a normal year. In mid-March 2020, Ontario went into quarantine. On March 17, I moved in with my partner. If we were going to hunker down, we wanted to do …
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