Her question hit me like a punch in the gut. I dropped what I was doing and packed for a canoe trip. I had no itinerary, other than it was going to happen with the next break in the weather and ...

My latest canoe trip marked a new era in winter canoe camping. For better or worse. I survived, avoided hypothermia, and didn’t lose any digits to frostbite. Apparently the better outweighed the worse ...

I became enamored of Sir Ernest Shackleton 25 years ago in a Pickle Lake, Ontario, motel room. A friend and I had just completed a seven-night winter camping trip where the temperature reached zero ...

What budget adventure has the primitive solitude of backpacking without having to carry everything on your back? It’s a spot where you can camp somewhere new every night, bask in the glory of ...