On a multi-day canoe adventure, you want to keep your loads light. But make sure you have what matters.
Written by Up Here
Photo courtesy Mike Peake/Canoe North Adventures
It's not all raging rapids and remote rivers up here
Written by Up Here
Photo courtesy Gerold Sigl/NWT
Small-talk from the captain's nest of the Fort Simpson ferry
Written by Herb Mathisen
The MV Lafferty, captained by Graham Cox, battles the Liard River current in the Deh Cho. Photo: Herb Mathisen/Up Here, Photo illustration: Beth Covvey
How to find peace in the great outdoors
Written by Tim Edwards
The Takhini Hot Springs. Photo by Takhini Hot Pools
Why paddle when you can sail? Great Bear Lake can be a slog, but every once in a while the wind is just right.
Written by Daniel Campbell
What a seven-canoes-turned-sailboat looks like. Photo courtesy Toban Leckie
Written by Samia Madwar
Ivvavik National Park. Not Ellesmere Island, but the same concepts apply. Photo by Tim Johnson
Written by Tim Edwards
Step one: 4x4. Photo courtesy Karel Pekelsky
The last canoe of the season
Written by Tim Edwards
Paddling out to secret weekend camping spots at Hidden Lake, NWT. Photo by Tim Edwards
The landscape changes drastically this month in the North--here are the best spots to witness it.
Written by Up Here
Bring back a whale of a tale from the floe edge in Pond Inlet, Nunavut. Photo by Michelle Valberg