Symposium to Focus on “Affordable North”
6 Feb
The Minnesota Canoe Association’s Far North Symposium will stress budget-friendly northern paddling trips when expedition paddlers from the Upper Midwest gather on Saturday, March 28 in St. Paul.
Strained pocketbooks and rising aviation prices to remote areas, organizers stress, need not keep hardy paddles home this summer. Presenters at the gathering, organized by arctic paddling veteran Bob O’Hara, will recount trips and show images from trips in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories.
Featured presentations include: Jason Jech’s description of a two-week trip — the drive from Minnesota included — on the Noire River in Quebec; Fred Rupp and Ryan Strack’s talk about Les Voyageurs, a program that’s sent high school students on far north trips for more than 25 years; Bob O’Hara’s own stories from his trip down Nunavut’s Hood River; and a video documenting Andrew and Peter Marshall’s epic 2,700 mile trip from Lake of the Woods to the Arctic Ocean.
More information about the symposium — including online registration — can be found HERE.
The gathering is sponsored by the Minnesota Canoe Association.
