In a solo canoe, Joe O'Blenis is paddling roughly 9,000 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean in northern British Columbia all the way to the waters of the Atlantic Ocean along Canada’s Maritime Provinces. Check out his dispatches!
August 15th - August 23rd: Puckaskaw National Park
"The water here was pretty crazy, large waves crashing in, breaking here and there at random, refracting waves coming right back off the cliffs, creating some pretty stupid waters really."
July 26th - August 14th: Lake Superior
"Also conspicuous by its absence was litter...virtually no litter for kilometer upon kilometer of this vast and still nearly pristine shoreline."
June 24th - July 4th: Fort Chipewyan & Up the Athabasca River
"Pretty much the entire north shore of the lake is rugged shield country with huge outcrops of granite. The south shore is almost entirely made up of amazing sand beaches that stretch on for miles upon miles..."
May 22nd - 24th: Tahtsa Lake to Prince George
"The scenery here on Tahtsa Lake was just incredible. A beautiful lake surrounded by majestic mountains and not another person to be seen..."
May 22nd - 24th: The Portage from Hell
"The first portage happens to be 51 kilometers, starting at sea level and peaking out at nearly 3300-feet at a mountain pass along the Coast Mountains..."
May 5th - 22nd: Kittimat to Prince George
"It was also the windiest day thus far with a strong gusty wind at my back with following seas building...This made for some exciting paddling, especially as I paddled near the cliffs..."
May 5th: Setting Off from Kittimat
"My route will consist of coastal paddling along the world-famous BC Inside Passage before heading inland on a 50-kilometer portage to an immense series of rivers north of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park..."
