Posts in Category: Canada
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Skating Across Nova Scotia – How to Do it in One Day
Here’s a story I wrote about an adventure I participated in a few years ago when my legs could still skate for six hours straight. That’s the kind of endurance you require if you want to try skating across Nova Scotia in one day. Sounds impossible? Here’s why it’s not. If you are a cross-country […]
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The Restigouche – Three Days of Paddling this Famous River
The Restigouche is one of Atlantic Canada’s fabled salmon rivers. At the right time of year a long section of the river from the confluence of the Kedgwick to the mouth of the Upsalquitch is virtually a deserted wilderness. It’s usually easy paddling, with no portages and only the occasional stretch of very mild white […]
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Petit Train du Nord – Cross-Country Skiing a Quebec Legend
In the last post I described why Alison and I decided to leave Nova Scotia in mid January and head to Mont Tremblant for some cross-country skiing. Although we did not find the skiing at Domaine St. Bernard all that great, we were really looking forward to skiing a portion Le Petit Train du Nord […]
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Mont Tremblant – Don’t Overlook the Great Cross Country Skiing Here
Usually you don’t leave your home base because the weather’s too good, but that was the case yesterday as we decided to go in search of winter. All of our snow was melted by the torrential rains of the past few days. The temperatures were close to record breaking, but there wasn’t much you could […]
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ATVers Cannot Exist on Trails with Walkers, Bikers and X-Country Skiers
This was the first post I ever wrote on my Maritime Explorer website. Since then it has been followed by almost five hundred more from eight provinces, nineteen states and thirty-three countries. It was kind of disappointing that my first post on the Maritime Explorer was a negative one, because the vast majority of subsequent […]
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Revelstoke – Discover This Great Ski Resort Before Everybody Else
Up until a few years ago Revelstoke, B.C. was a small town noteworthy mostly for the treacherous sections of the Trans-Canada Highway that precede it from either direction. Sure, it had a very good Railway Museum and a well preserved central core of historic buildings, but mostly it was a place to get through on […]
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Gully Lake on Cross Country Skis – A Perfect Winter Pastime
For those in the metro Halifax area who enjoy snow and the opportunity to exercise in cold temperatures there has not been much to cheer about the last few years. Little snow and mild temperatures have kept the cross-country skis and snowshoes in the basement. However, if you are prepared to drive an hour or […]