August Maniwaki Quebec, Canada In collaboration with 6
Canoe Kayak Rafting
Fédération québécoise du canot et du kayak
Info: Fqck (514) 252-3001
www.gatineau.org
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would be a demand for maps that detailed the endless system of rural routes and logging roads in Canada. You can now buy paper or digital (complete with GPS waypoints) maps of popular backcountry regions from Vancouver Island to Prince Edward Island showing roads, ruts, trails, paths, pipelines, hydro lines—everything that might help you get into that supposedly inaccessible river.
Paper: $18 Cdn and up, Digital: $40 Cdn.
www.backroadmapbooks.com
STOHLQUIST 6 Free Fall
When you’re upside down and bouncing off rocks in a steep creek you have better things to do than worry about ripping your new dry top (that was more expensive than your boat). The soon-to-be-released Free Fall eases your mind on both these counts. The
price is less than you’d expect for a 3-layer breathable dry top, and Cordura-covered elbow and shoulder padding adds beefiness where you’re most likely to need it. The pliable material and minimal neoprene collar—which zips up in front instead of closing with a bulky Velcro flap—increases the comfort quotient.
$337 Cdn. $280 US.
www.stohlquist.com 7 Nylon webbing
The least expensive and handiest piece of paddling equipment is surely a length of nylon climbing webbing. On any one creeking trip your webbing can be: used to drag your boat up an old rail grade; wrapped around your waist to rap down into a canyon; used as an anchor for a z-drag and a tie- down for the shuttle out (when the others have been forgotten in the car). All that for a buck per metre.
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