Everything I needed to know, I learned at GREENLAND CAMP
STORY AND PHOTOS BY VI RGINIA MARSHALL
F
rom our perch in the lifeguard tower over- looking Camp Tamarack’s private lake, the
hard-chined, low volume kayaks bobbing in the shallows are too numerous to count. “How many this year?” I ask James Roberts, co-
owner of Parry Sound-based Learn to Kayak and organizer of the second annual Ontario Greenland Camp (OGC). Roberts pulls his eye away from his camera viewfinder and runs a hand through his unruly hair, crunching the numbers. “Sixty- five, plus instructors,” he replies—30 percent more than the previous year. Healthy numbers for a new event in a region not generally recognized for its zealous participation in ancient Arctic traditions.
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Since Adventure Kayak last took an in-depth look at Greenland-style paddling in 2006 (Early Sum- mer,
www.adventurekayakmag.com/0041), tradi- tional gatherings have been on the rise. Bringing a bit of Greenland to Ontario’s lake country was a no-brainer for Roberts and business partner and fiancée, Dympna Hayes. “We put Greenland paddles in all our stu-
dents’ hands on every course we teach,” says Hayes. “It’s easier to learn rolling with a stick, and a lot of our clients now carry one as an in- expensive spare paddle.”
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