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Paddlers of Great Slave Lake, NWT, Canada

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A place to discuss our travels on the waters of Great Slave lake and the Territories and the waters that they are connected to. we will discuss anything that paddles or floats and really like rescue stuff

Website: http://www.tundrasails.ca
Location: Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
Members: 5
Created By: Greg Loftus ( Cominco)
Latest Activity: 7 hours ago

Yelllowknife a fine starting point for your Great Slave journeys(and beyond)

Yellowknife is the perfect spot to start a trip on the lake. Historically many famous Arctic Explorations used the Lake as a staring point. From Yellowknife if you paddle hard enough you can reach three oceans. This invovles some long trips but they have been done before with gear no where near as the stuff we have now.
Come on up and play much worse ways to spend your vacation you can be sure of that. Cheers Greg

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Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) 7 hours ago: Spend part of my afternoon doing rolls on the bay. Great fun but hard on my ears. I have some sinus trouble caused by meds that I take for the transplant and this seems to effect my ears when I submerge my head. Think that I will try ear plugs and see if this helps.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on July 17, 2008 at 4:18am: Folks go and visit the webpage www.canadianrivers.net and see what they are attempting to do to your rights topaddle.Would be a bloody shame to live beside this huge lake and not be allowed to paddle on it. Greg

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on July 13, 2008 at 8:12pm: Sunmmer just does not want to hang around here by the feel of the weather we are getting. Out comes the sun jst as I type this, but for how long. Greg

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on July 11, 2008 at 8:33pm: Just in case your looking Paddlers for Parts Sociable is the week-end of July 25/26/27th at the Yellowknife River bridge. we will have a few boats there but the more the merrier as they say and yours is always a welcome addition to the fleet. Cheers Cominco

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 30, 2008 at 8:34am: Hope that you folks are taking advantage of the info and stuff available at www.paddling.net. The draw for a kayak or canoe package is running again and is on until September I think. Check out the site more commerial than here but some very informative articles.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 30, 2008 at 3:48am: Getting far to many thunderstorms lately makes for terrible paddling weather. Hope tha we get back to the type of summer that caused me to move here 35 years ago, Hot and sunny long days and hardly any rain. Still thunderstorms are better than frozen water and -40C so I'lll stop complaining and enjoy whatever summer that we get. Cheers folks, Greg

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 29, 2008 at 9:32pm: Looks like a very nice day for kayak sailing. I'll be heading out there shortly just a few chores to do first. Cheers, Greg

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 28, 2008 at 7:11am: Just got in from a great little stroll paddlewise around Latham Island and Yellowknife Bay or around theHorn as I like to call it. Yesterday was National Canoe day and I spent a little time Paddling the "Blue Canoe" and crossed wakes with the Somba K'e members that were tourning the houseboats. A very nice night for a paddle a good 20 inot breeze was blown and it was fun. However I don't fit well in a canoe these days and am only good for a short burst of canoe paddling, half an hour to an hour is enough and I need to find a shore somewhere, to get out a walk around a little. The "Blue canoe was pleased that we took her out and was showing her stuff just fine. Cheers, Greg

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 26, 2008 at 6:50am: Don't forget folks that tomorrow the 26th is National canoe day and we want to see you folks out there lpying the waters of the Great Slave in anything from Birchbark to Kelvlar or anything new that has come along.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 24, 2008 at 2:29am: Hello members and friends
Just back from two hours of kayaksailing on Yellowknife and back bay. Great day for it but the winds could have been better. The speed was all right but unfortunately the direction could have been better. I did however get some nice runs with good paddling in between.