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Photo travelogue of our trip in 2002. Highlights include paddling Big Salmon River and Yukon, hiking the Cottonwood Trail in Kluane National Park and sea kayaking in Glacier Bay National Park. After a very long flight from Vienna via Toronto and Vancouver with spectacular views of the Saint Elias Range we arrived in Whitehorse. It was easy to rent a Canadian canoe and arrange transport to Quiet Lake, the starting point of our paddling trip. (By the way, a very recommendable company are Canoe People Ltd
Martin Ritter and Lorenz MALller's hike the West Coast Trail in six days. Links and photos are included. While planning our dive trip to British Columbia, we were looking for an additional avenue through which to depose of our boundless energy. Remembering the comments about a certain "West Coast Trail", we decided to find some more info regarding this popular hike over the Internet. There we came across a few well written reports and descriptions of the trail, all of which had the message in common that this trail was going to take a lot out of you and that you better hit it well prepared, be it that you bring the right equipment or that you be physically fit. Much in the same way the official Hiker's Prep Guide warns the rookies out there that the WCT, as it is commonly known, has the reputation of being "one of the most grueling treks in North America"
Articles, poetry, slide shows and detailed trip reports of biking across British Columbia. In 2001 I traveled the 'new and improved' route, becoming in the process the first cyclist to ride the Trans Canada Trail across the province. I kept a log of my journey based upon the new Trans Canada Trail guide book that was published in the same year.