Canoeing/Backpacking the Swanson Lake and River Trail
September 11th 2009 For the Labor Day weekend I was invited to go on a 3-day backpacking/canoeing trip with one of my hiking buddies from last summer. The trip included a series of 10 lakes, a “difficult passage,” and a 22-mile river. My eagerness for outdoor adventure is at its max. Fall is beginning to show her colors in sheets of red draping down the mountainsides and through the puffs of fluttering feathers o
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