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Canoecopia (Canceled atthe last minute!)

2/29/2020

See us at
Canoecopia 2020
March 13-15, Madison, WI.
https://www.paddlers.com/canoecopia/page.asp?pgid=1001

Friends of Wabakimi will be there all three days with our lobby display and a supply for sale of our 36”x35” Wabakimi Canoe Routes Planning Map, as well as our five Wabakimi Canoe Route Map Volumes.

We’ll answer questions about how to plan your Wabakimi Canoe trip and how we can promote this as a world class canoeing area while protecting and conserving the resource.

A first draft of our Wabakimi Canoe Routes Guidebook will be there to review. This will be the first comprehensive Wabakimi area guide.

We’re planning a get together Sat. evening. So check in with us at our table.

The FOW Annual meeting with be held Sunday morning, 9:00 to 9:45 a.m. (Enter the adjacent Clarion Hotel via the front lobby where you will be directed to the Voyageur Room.) Members in good stand can vote; but all interested person may attend. Vern Fish will present his President’s report on our progress.

Please connect with us at this event! Please considering joining us!

Two FOW board members are presenting seminars: Vern Fish and Mary Jean Blaisdell!

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canoecopia Presentation (Possibly rescheduled for a future online Webinar)

2/27/2020

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Vern Fish will talk about the Greenmantle River, a Wabakimi gem. 

1:30 p.m. on Saturday, in the Killarney Room.

This will be a one hour presentation at Canoecopia, which is March 13-15 . This wild little river may lack girth and length but it is long on adventure and isolation. Hidden in the far northwest corner of Wabakimi Provincial Park, the Greenmantle River provides access to a huge swath of protected wilderness. The reward is an opportunity to explore a remote boreal forest and possibly catch an elusive brook trout.

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Canoecopia Presentation (Another Presentation for a future time!)

2/24/2020

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“Solo Tripping, One Step at a Time”
Mary Jean Blaisdell

Also at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, in the Voyageur Room

Have you been thinking of taking a wilderness trip alone or with others and haven’t done so yet? In this presentation, Mary will take you on her personal journey of completing a 6-night solo in the Boundary Waters by taking one step at a time and planning for success. By setting small goals to achieve each trip and identifying and resolving apprehensions along the way, she upped her game a little at a time

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