Most of my recent paddling has been on rivers, but the lake circuit in Lakeland Provincial Park is beautiful! Another bonus is that as a leader there is less to worry about on lake trips. In some ways you have to work a little harder: there are portages which are usually sweaty and mosquito filled. Sometimes you have to work hard paddling into the wind. But you get to explore a little more – you are not being swept down a single path. It has been fun to change it up. One of the next lake trips on my radar is the Bowron Lakes Circuit in BC.

This series is during spring 2020, when all my trips are likely going to be cancelled for this next summer due to COVID-19.