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Evening Speakers
Friday and Saturday evening presentations
feature noted speakers who often feature slide shows,
videos, or films.
2008 Featured Evening Speakers:
Debra
& Rolf Kraiker
& The
Peake Brothers
Debra
& Rolf Kraiker
Canoeing In Norway-- The Friday Night
Presentation
Debra and Rolf Kraiker are experienced
wilderness paddlers, they run a paddling school called
Blazing Paddles, and they are authors of numerous
articles on paddling and tripping skills, and tales of
northern trips. Rolf is an incredible photographer.
Together they have paddled many northern routes and
shared the experience with their children. Learn more
about them at: blazingpaddles.ca.
Canoeing in Norway. The
Canadian North provides endless opportunity for
exploration in untamed wilderness by canoe. With all that
potential, there's no need to step outside the boundaries
of Canada in a lifetime of paddling, yet that's exactly
what the Kraikers recently did. Join them as they compare
a canoe trip above the arctic circle in Norway against
their experiences traveling by canoe in Canada's
north.
The Peake
Brothers and the Hideaway Canoe Club
Northern Crossing,
On Thompson's Tail-- The Saturday Night
Presentation
The Peake Brothers are the most
requested speakers in the history of the Maine Canoe
Symposium. With a combination of great adventure, superb
photography, and a solid dose of humor, Michael Peake and
the rest of the Hideaway Canoe Club have been perennial
favorites with MCS audiences. Come and share the
adventure of the latest Hideaway Canoe Club trip in
Northern Canada. You will not be disappointed. Learn more
about the Peakes at: Che-Mun.
Northern Crossing, On Thompson's
Trail follows the route the famed astronomer/explorer
took in the summer of 1796 when he was looking for
alternative trade routes. From huge and historic Reindeer
Lake, which straddles the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border
the trip begins near the site of Bedford House where
Thompson wintered over. We also follow, a half century
later, the 1957 route of Eric Morse and the Voyageurs who
ascended the Swan and Blondeau rivers and crossing the
height of land into Wollaston Lake. This lake is drained
by the Fond du Lac River into Lake Athabasca. We finished
at the town of Stony Rapids. This near north trip is
still in wild country and offers miles of runnable rapids
in warm waters. Come with the HACC on our first northern
trip in six years - following some Legends down a
northern river.
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