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A new year brings a new batch of canoe trip plans. Last year's approach of having multiple trips to accommodate everyone seemed to work out, so I'll give that a try again. The following sections include my planning notes, the roster of paddlers, the availability calendar, and other bits and pieces. This page is always a work in progress, and represents the current state of the planning process.

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Most recent notes are listed first, and highlighted…

• Added a new weekend availability option: D for Doubtful
• This canoeing web page has been moved and reworked. A new link and passwords have been emailed out.
• Doug's list of available weekends is shrinking rapidly, and that seems to be the case for Cathy as well. I'd like to get something planned so we can agree on dates to set aside. Thanks for the quick responses to my snarky email <grin> - all the scheduling info I have is in the calendar below.
• With flagrant disregard for her father's canoeing plans, my daughter Nicole is having a baby mid-June. This means I'll be in Amsterdam/England for basically all of June.
• The Noble family's in Iceland May 3 - 16. Anyone else wanna try to beat the black flies?
• Have extended an invite to John Selman, who attended the Tim Lake potato party in 2011
• Planning started, and survey sent out on Feb 13
• Doug wouldn't mind being in Algonquin for the Perseid meteor shower on Aug 12. Oops - will be in Newfoundland instead.
• Kevin USED TO THINK we could do a spring trip before the black flies and after ice out. Tight window
  • when are road washouts fixed by
  • when does park start taking reservations?
  • May 12 weekend looks like a good candidate for this approach
• With multiple trips being planned, we have a lot more flexibility to accommodate varying trip lengths, exertion levels, preferred activities, etc.

These are the folks that I am bothering with repeated canoe trip emails. They're identified by their initials in the availability chart, and sorted by initials here:

• BG Bruce Grayson
• BN Brendan Noble
• CN Chris Noble
• CP Cathy Pasternak
• DE Doug Elliott
• JJ Jim Johnson
• JK Doug's Ham friend Jon Kissi
• JN Jess Noble
• JS John Selman
• KN Kevin Noble
• LV Larry Vanier
• PC Pete Coumans
• SN Scott Newman

Who's available when? Letters in following chart represent No, Doubtful, Maybe, Probably, Yes.
Initials at tops of columns are defined in the Potentially Participating Paddlers section, just above.

My goals in suggestion trip arrangements are:

• getting everyone who's interested on at least one canoe trip
• having people able to do their favourite activities
• having no one do more physical exertion than they can comfortably handle
• go on at least 3 trips myself
• do some weird stuff (Perseid photography, working ham radio, drone photography..)

Doug's planning scribbles:

• Odyssey antlers?
• back pack repairs
• trade JJ dishes for backpack.
• CPAP battery testing / earplug handouts
• intertwined trips, routes
• revive the old canoe trip website