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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
Latest Activity: Aug 10

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 starting point. From Yellowknife if you paddle hard enough you can reach three oceans. This involves some long trips, but they have been done before with gear no where near as nice 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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The Slave River 2 Replies

Started by Andrew Denholm. Last reply by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) Jan 30.

More Paddlers needed for this place

Started by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) Mar. 11, 2008.

today was a reminder of whats to come

Started by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) Mar. 9, 2008.

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Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on August 10, 2010 at 5:09am: woprld rivers day is september 26th this year and we will be partying at the river all welcome . come and join us at the river for hot grub abnd tea and rope games etc.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on August 4, 2010 at 8:53am: Season is still going strong but there is the fall nip in the air at times, this sucks as it is early days August. Weather is warm and we can actually get a really nice October ocassionally.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on July 18, 2010 at 8:03am: Plenty of wind this year for kayak and canoe sailing thats for sure, to bad alot of it is thunderstorm weather and ubsafe for kayak sailing. Paddlers of Parts Sociable Affair is coming up starting July 23rd;at the Yellwowknife river bridge.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on June 27, 2010 at 8:34am: Hope that you spent at least part of yesterday our National canoe day paddling on a lke or river. Happy belated National Canoe Day folks.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on May 15, 2010 at 7:16am: Patrick and Naomi and myself will paddle the Yellowknife river tomorrow afternoon , That will be nice.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on May 13, 2010 at 10:00am: Another short paddle on the bigfella today and it was fun busting ice and pushingthe flows around. There is a lot of water but it is across the bay and I can't quite getbthere yet.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on May 6, 2010 at 10:32am: The gap widens each day between the shore and the ice pack and longer rides are possible each day. Trying to man up for some roll practice but she is looking pretty damn chilly out there yet.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on May 4, 2010 at 5:09pm: The comment below should read between the ice and shore, not sure what I was thinking when I typed that. Must of had my head in a boat somewhere.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on May 4, 2010 at 9:43am: Got my kayak wet on may first on Great Slave. There was a nice shallow stretch opened between shore and mainland running 5/6 hundred feet northn to south basically. Maybe 100 feet wide at the widest point but plenty of room to roam. I practiced carved turns an spins and did some braces and spend some time breaking candleld ice. The first ride is always nice and there is more open water at the bridge.

Comment by Greg Loftus ( Cominco) on April 13, 2010 at 12:49pm: The Paddlers for Parts film festival The Reel Paddling Film Fesival`` was a sell out almost on Saturday evening, managed to sell 90 percent of the tickets. Nice to have a full house as last year it was a much smaller event with only 44 tickets sold.