My book, "Far Distant Echoes" will be out within the next several weeks!

The book describing my Lake Superior to Hudson's Bay trip, "Far Distant Echoes" is in it's "final pass," and will be in print from Vantage Press within the next several weeks. It is a book that I have co-authored with the other crew member, Fred, who completed the trip with me. It is the story of a crew who began with seven, and finished the trip with only the two oldest members. The others, who chose to quit, really missed out on the trip of a lifetime.

This blog is about me, and my canoeing, and other things that interest me. I also have a book coming out in the next several weeks, another subject of this blog.

During 2008, I participated in a long distance canoe trip from Lake Superior to Hudson's Bay. This trip was on historic waterways, lasted 67 days, and covered approximately 1500 miles. In these ways the trip differs from other trips that have gone from Minnesota to York Factory, Manitoba.

We started the trip by crossing the Grand Portage, from the shores of the continent's largest ice box, Lake Superior. It was a challenging trail, traversing 9 miles from Lake Superior to the Pigeon River. I had been on this trail four years before, going eastbound. Going westbound was exponentially more difficult, and took over five hours longer, as our group was carrying full loads of fuel and supply.