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If you think you had a rough start to your day, read this: "It was one of those mornings that started by putting on cold, wet boots and hiking through alder thickets at seemingly every turn.  And then it started to snow again, and the wind howled, biting at me as it whipped in full force off each of the lakes I encountered.  Another inch of the cold, damp white stuff piled on the fir branches, showering me constantly as I plowed through the thickets."

Outfitter and guide Jason Zabokrtsky is about to emerge from the wilds of Canada's Quetico Provincial Park and cross into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. He's currently bushwhacking and swimming his way through 80 miles of canoe country.

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If you think you had a rough start to your day, read this: “It was one of those mornings that started by putting on cold, wet boots and hiking through alder thickets at seemingly every turn. And then it started to snow again, and the wind howled, biting at me as it whipped in full 

If you think you had a rough start to your day, read this: “It was one of those mornings that started by putting on cold, wet boots and hiking through alder thickets at seemingly every turn. And then it started to snow again, and the wind howled, biting at me as it whipped in full Read more →


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