Silent Canoe Certified Canoe Courses & Trips

2-day Lake Canoe Skills Intermediate course. Get from novice/casual paddling experience to advanced ability in two-days!

May 25/26 at Fanshawe Lake. $195 per person.

Download poster here with course details: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4-2jkbh7-FLNjF5REFvYW13TDg/edit

Email me to register: [email protected]

50% OFF May 04 Dundas and May 25 (London) 1-day Lake Canoe Skills I course (only $57.50!). Register online here: http://silentcanoe.com/Courses/Tandem_Lake_I/index.html

This is an awesome and free online resource to improve your bird identification skills!

http://www.natureinstruct.org/dendroica/

NatureInstruct - Dendroica An interactive website to help students, volunteers and professionals improve their skills at identifying North American birds by sight or by sound.

I just posted my first blog post on grilled peanut butter sandwhiches for the backcountry!

http://silentcanoe.com/blog/files/a9c7f56296f4bcc2b2b9dea79df809ee-0.html

Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwhich

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIzPL-Tl7bI

Fire Lighting Fire Lighting is a critical camp craft skill. Today with Ridge Wilderness, David Wooldridge demonstrates how to start a fire with wet wood in cold conditions...

Great review of the new BioLite backcountry stick-stove that charges your devices and cooks your food. True backcountry sustainability:

http://blog.portageur.ca/gear/gear-reviews/biolite-campstove

BioLite Campstove Did you also bring you're BioLite? No, because I figured you would. -- A conversation I had 3 times this year. The BioLite CampStove Must get

How well do you know your Canadian geography?

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/geoquiz/ #.UPma41r1X44.twitter

Geo Quiz! - Canadian Geographic Test your knowledge of Canadian geography.

How awesome is this:

"Using a shovel for an oar, a B.C. man paddled a stolen canoe across the Niagara River from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Youngstown, N.Y.

“He had a desire to go to New York City,” said U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Michael Scioli. “He stole a canoe from a residence in Niagara-on-the-Lake and ventured across.”

After ditching the canoe at a boat ramp in Fort Niagara State Park, the man tried walking out of the park, but was spotted by border guards patrolling the area.

“It was 2 a.m., so it was kind of unusual for someone to come from that area that early in the morning,” Scioli said.

The man was arrested and charged with illegal entry into the U.S. He's currently being held at a federal detention centre.

It's believed the man took a bus from B.C. to Ontario before allegedly stealing the canoe early Thursday morning.

When the owners of the stolen canoe realized the boat was missing around 6 a.m. Thursday morning, they called the U.S. Coast Guard to alert them someone might have tried to sneak into the U.S. - though the man had already been arrested.

“That's one of the biggest keys we work with is tips and calls from the community on both sides of the water,” Scioli said."

Source: http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2013/01/17/man-sneaks-into-us-using-stolen-canoe-and-shovel

Man sneaks into U.S. using stolen canoe and shovel | News | Niagara Falls Review Man sneaks into U.S. using stolen canoe and shovel 0 By Dan Dakin, St. Catharines Standard Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:58:22 EST PM Fort Niagara State Park in Youngstown, N.Y.TweetChange text size for the storyPrintReport an errorUsing a shovel for an oar, a B.C. man paddled a stolen canoe across t...

Camp food tip: pack LIMES, lots of limes! Lightweight, add loads of flavour and don't spoil easily!

Camp food tip: coat eggs in crisco and they'll stay fresh w/o refrigeration for up to 7 days.

Another must watch short film.

http://vimeo.com/nrsfilms/cascada

CASCADA Tangled vines. Endless rain. Dodgy hotel rooms. Mud. Biting flies. Aggressive viruses...Perfection. Is this a vacation? Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, Galen Volckhausen,…

This video is really worth watching. It captures the beauty of canoeing the far north.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2iLkyMM2KFU #!

Keele River, Northwest Territories, Canada 12 Day Canoe Expedition on the Keele River with Canoe North Adventures. River Guides Al Pace & Lin Ward share their passion and spirit for wilderness adventu...