Yorkville Fire Station food drop-off. That returning fire truck will have to wait!
I forget what happened!
FOR HISTORIAN ATHLETES​ AND VOYAGEUR PHILOSOPHERS
13 canoes line up at our back-up paddle launch site early. The Don was in rare white-water form. Yet it was brown.
Looks like a leisurely paddle up the Humber. The current is not shown - photos taken 20 minutes later were identical.
Always seems to be relaxing at first. There were calls to carry many more canoes. Those calls died down a few km later.
It was quite crazy. We clearly picked the best/worst time to be hanging out around the rivers.
Special Thanks:
Shawn- for finding canoes in magical places; how you got these all together in such a relaxed fashion is your brand!
Mike O - for conducting the portage kick-off ceremony with passion and wisdom
Jake and Caitlin - for organizing and guiding the run and the general event. Caitlin knows that the only thing to do when the trail disappears underwater is to go underwater with it!
Colin - for hosting the night-before party, driving the rig around town, helping to generally organize, and carrying Nick's lifeless body to the finish (again)
Marilyn and the Tollkeeper's Cottage team -for once again (year 6) providing unmatched hospitality, great pea soup, biscuits, authenticity and smiles!
Emma C-C - for doing such a great job of getting the word out to the University of Toronto's Outdoor Club; stoked participation!
Torontoadventures.ca - for loaning us 8 canoes and all of the life jackets and paddles we needed. Super convenient to be able to drop them off by the Humber after the paddle!
David Slaughter - for capturing some great shots, including the two beautiful fall pictures on this page