by colinfield | Jul 7, 2021 | BLOG, PHOTOS, WORDS
Searching for narwhal on the spring ice of Pond Inlet, Nunavut. On our final trip to the floe edge, it’s obviously cracking up; this landscape is constantly in flux and it’s deteriorating fast. We get as close as is reasonable and see the cracks as they rise and fall...
by colinfield | Nov 4, 2019 | BLOG, WORDS
We set off in the rain. The pouring rain. The kind of rain that soaks through to our underwear in minutes. But we can’t stop. We have to get to camp and there are two sets of rapids to get through today. The families have just met for the first time and the kids...
by colinfield | Jul 4, 2018 | BLOG, WORDS
We’ve been hiking for five hours now. And the Highway to Heaven trail has delivered all that it promised; a challenging, yet rewarding hike in the Arctic Circle. We’ve seen caribou and mountain goats. We reached the summit of Dragon Tors. We explored the barren lands...
by colinfield | Nov 25, 2017 | BLOG, WORDS
On December fifteenth, 2016, Larry Cavero runs out of Lake Huron and bolts for his car. He exchanges a few quick words with the other guys and jumps in his vehicle. They’re surfing a rocky break composed of the Niagara Escarpment’s limestone; the rock shelves here,...
by colinfield | Sep 18, 2017 | BLOG, WORDS
“It was the happiest time of my life,” says Chris Larkin. “Undoubtedly.” His answer is instant. There’s no hesitation. The best time in his 65 years on earth was 31 years ago. It lasted ten days. It was that time he lost absolutely everything in the Mackenzie...
by colinfield | Jul 21, 2017 | BLOG
As a Canadian, my first real canoe trip was late in life; not till I was 21 did I load up a boat with all my gear and head into the wilderness surrounding Algonquin. But ever since then, I’ve been hooked. And my son will be going on many, many, many canoe trips...
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