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Norte franco… // True north…

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Ernesto Hontoria López  (Versión en castellano debajo de la foto) Well this year vacations are now reserved. It would not be as splendorous as last year trip to Kilimanjaro, but just as much adventurous as it. This year we are going true north from here. Hard to believe? Maybe, but it is true. Our plan is to take the car and drive 15 hours north to a small town called Atikokan . There, some nice guys from Canada Canoe Outfitters , will rent us 2 canoes, and 4 paddles and will drive us to an entering point of a wilderness provincial park known as Quetico (let say point A). Five days later they will pick us in point B, which is 60 km further east. We will be paddling almost the entire distance, which means12km each day. It seems reasonable for not so experienced paddlers. I have said ‘almost the entire distance’ because in some points we are going to carry the canoe, and all our camping gear, overland -most precisely over our shoulders- to switch lakes. Yes, there are mo