We highly recommend large, traditional-style snowshoes for all of our Lure trip participants. This video demonstrates why the traditional shoes are so much more practical for our style of trip.
Our traditional-frame snowshoes with modern monoline weave are available through our store here.
How to pack your gear in preparation for a Lure of the North trip.  This is also the system Kielyn and I use for our all of our personal trips, so those not attending Lure trips may also find this useful.
See our full equipment list here.
Our clothing recommendations and how to size them for a Lure of the North trip.
Note: This video is current as of 2012 season – but gear improvements are constantly being sought and thus this is subject to change.
See the full equipment list here.
A 40-day snowshoe trek on the Fox, Kabinakagami and Kenogami Rivers in NE Ontario, 250km round-trip to the abandoned Hudson’s Bay Company fort of Mammammattawa. An exploratory trip on some exceptionally small rivers, and one of the earliest, warmest springs on record combine to create some very difficult travel conditions for the return home!
Kie loving life on a Temagami trail!
We’ve just wrapped up a fantastic first season, and are still basking in the warm glow of a beautiful winter very well spent!
Full trip reports and videos will be released slowly over the weeks and/ or months to come. Â In the meantime most of the season’s photos have now been uploaded, and can be viewed here.
This season (our first official guiding season) we’ve had the pleasure of running 5 trips, totaling 26 days on trip, with 25 different participants. Â Some of the highlights include:
We’d like to sincerely thank everyone who believed in us for our first season and provided support and/ or encouragement:
A snow- and smile-filled expedition to Ishpatina Ridge!
We’ve just finished up our official first full season of guiding winter trips, and couldn’t have asked for a better way to finish! In the first week of March, we received a great blast of beautiful wintery weather, with cold, clear nights, some beautifully sunny days, lots of wind and piles of snow (20+cm the first night alone!). We even had a temporary 2-day meltdown, which led to lots of drastically changing, constantly interesting conditions! In 8 days we traveled over 60kms across 7 lakes and portages, winding sections of the Montreal River, and the final 3-km bushwhack to the highest point in Ontario! Despite waist-high snow back in the bush, every member of our little group of 6 made it to the top, including first-time winter campers, and 68 years young Louis from Parry Sound! Â Congratulations to all participants, and thanks for making our final trip of the season so memorable!
Photos coming soon!
Trail toboggan and anorak in action in Temagami
We’ve been making them for a couple of years now, and we’re happy to finally have these products officially for sale here on the site: our 8 – 12′ long HPDE trail toboggans, our custom leather tumps, and our windprood anoraks!
Check out the store for more info.
Heading Back Home on the Wind-Blown Lakes
Last week we had the pleasure of heading out on trip in Killarney Park with Ontario’s well-loved guidebook author Kevin Callan and his hilarious friend Andy Baxter.  We had a beautiful trip, an amazing group including our youngest participant to date (11 year old Nicole), a challenging hike up the flanks of Silver Peak, and most prominently a unique camp-life experience including snowshoe baseball, tropical vacation advertisements, a snack-stuffing competition and much more!
View the photo album here, and stay tuned for video releases on Kevin Callan’s Youtube channel sometime this week. Kevin completed a CBC interview (by sat. phone) while on trip.  Listen to it here.
En Route to Silver Peak ! (Mid January 2012)
We are off to Killarney Provincial Park this coming weekend for a 4-day hike to Silver Peak with Kevin Callan and a host of others (including our youngest participant to date!).  We were in this area a couple of weeks ago and had beautiful conditions – easy travel on the windblown lakes, but lots of snow in the bush.  We’re looking forward to another wonderful trip this weekend, and 3 more in February and March.
View all the photos from last month’s Silver Peak trip  here.
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