When camping, prepare an equipment list and then check and re-check it at least a-thousand times before heading out. Here’s a packing list for a five-day trip during moderate weather conditions:
Follow Kevin Callan on his epic once-around-Algonquin canoe trip. It's a tough journey, with 93 portages totalling 63 km of land-travel — stay in the loop by following his live updates on this site!
Join Kevin Callan, the Happy Camper, as he paddles and hikes the remote eastern shore of Newfoundland — visiting rustic outports and kissing a cod along the way.
When the gang at Birchbark Media signed me up for a film project along the eastern shore of Newfoundland, I didn’t have an issue with using kayak to float along a portion of its rugged ocean shoreline. After all, paddling a canoe on the Atlantic would be just darn silly.
Follow Kevin Callan on a somewhat questionable early season Algonquin Park canoe adventure. How did he conquer those cold nights? You might be surprised. (With video.)
It could be that I’m getting older — or wiser — but every year it seems I’m trying to lighten the load in my pack, especially when backpacking. Here are tips how to do it right:
With the May Long Weekend just around the corner — the annual camping kickoff for many Canadians — here's Explore's first-of-the-season camping roundup:
Zombie culture is definitely on the rise — including in outdoor marketing. One simple remark about how campers are prepared for a zombie apocalypse and every major morning show in Canada was eager to have me on.
I like wearing wool. I always have. Some may think it's because I'm too cheap to buy some of the "fancier" fabrics on the market, or that I'm too "traditional" to go beyond wearing an old wool sweater. But that's not it at all.
Check out the Happy Camper's annual lecture tour — 26 presentations between now and the end of May, at venues ranging from large-scale consumer shows to small-town libraries.
Hot tenting beats cold camping, hands down. I remember the trip that changed everything for me. I was “cold camping” in Algonquin park, sleeping in my four-season tent at the end of a long and cold February day of snowshoeing through deep snow.
I have a new book coming out. It’s called Dazed But Not Confused: Tales of a Wilderness Wanderer. It will be released in early February by Dundurn Press.
The book is a collection of my best adventures — and misadventures — in the wilderness. Here’s a sample chapter. Enjoy.
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