WHEN YOU ARE on a wilderness canoe trip

WHEN YOU ARE on a wilderness canoe trip, you are almost always pointing toward something–some goal or destination. In the largest sense, that would be the final destination, your take-out point. The end of the trip (although I always say, ‘It’s all one trip.’) But short of that, there are many important goals along the way. That next island, to

THE MYSTERIOUS SIGN

THE MYSTERIOUS SIGN: In my wilderness guiding years, spanning decades and thousands of miles of ‘canoe country,’ we would sometimes come across the famous, red-tinged rock paintings of the North. Pictographs. The red color due to the ferous oxide compound used to make them. The paintings are always haunting and mysterious, their creation dating back hundreds, even thousands of years,