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...in a dozen photos I posted in the Photo Gallery? If you can, please drop me a note! Thanks, Aleks
A phrase "hard to beat" would adequately describe this weekend; If you missed it, and many of you did, you better have a good reason :)
Boundless offered a perfect location with many ammenities. Adrian, Vinnie and Trevor were gracious hosts. The food was incredible. The place is simpy too cozy! We didn't want to leave home.
We paddled Little Mississippi to the Cornoy Marsh & Lower Madawaska on Ssaturday, in windy but sunny conditions. We stopped at the Crooked Slide Park and Pligrim Reader bookstore in Combermere. On Sunday, we visited Craigmont, once thriving mining town. with Dave Kelly, the curator of Mission House Museum in Combermere. We hiked. We climbed. We descended into caves and mines. We learned about Clearwater and Bonaventure rivers.
Jon McPhee - great job organizing us, as usual.
Check out the photos in the Photo Gallery and the link to YouTube video.
Aleks
Congratulations to the WCA's Jon McPhee for his First Place finish in the Legends Class at the Gull River Open Canoe Slalom this past weekend. Perhaps even more impressive was Jon's tenth place finish in the Men's Solo class. This is the highly competitive top class that pits some of Canada's finest paddlers against each other. To come in that high against pro paddlers and canoeists half his age is a remarkable achievement.
Jon could be seen working out at the Minden Wildwater Preserve for at least a day nearly every summer weekend, and then go back for weekday practice as well. Clearly his hard work and dedication paid off.
Outstanding performance, Jon.
We're all very proud of you.
Bill
Herb Pohl on the Sand River - May 1997
Photo: Herb Pohl far left then Karl Schimeck, Jay & Frank holding hands
The Late Herb Pohl and Karl Schimeck joined us on our Sand River WCA Trip in May of 1997. This glorious adventure was enjoyed by all, though perhaps less by those only dressed in shorts and T-shirts during bug season! The most memorable event was catching up to these 2 swift kayakers at a lunch spot, to discover them both gleefully amused after nude swimming in the heat wave, something they both confessed they had never tried before! Why were these 2 gentlemen so respected ? Perhaps because no matter what the situation, they were always entertainingly enthusiastic about everything.
Just wanted to say "hats off" to our long time Nastawgan editor, Toni Harting, who is featured in the current issue of Rapid Magazine on page 32 in the article "Exposed: Whitwater's Greatest Shooters Share Their Most Iconic Images." Toni's chosen feature image is a solo paddler hanging out on a dramatic downstream low brace setting up a 25 foot North Canoe to surf the wave at the base of the French River's famous Blue Chute.
We're all very pleased to see you get this much-deserved recognition, Toni.
Toni and the editorial team produced yet another great journal! Read about Kazan and Rae river trips, Bill and Joan King, Aleks's voice recorder and much more...login and go to the Journal\Download Current issue.
Mountain River trip - Aug 11 to 22.
What a great way to spend a perfect long weekend. Bill and Rita Ness were the focal points of a laid-back and enjoyable time playing at the chute at Jessop's and running the river just below. Gloria rules the waves! (You had to be there to understand that one.) A total of twenty people turned out and twelve went to dinner at the Wilno Tavern.
