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    Ultimate Guide to Exploring Toba Inlet, BC (by Kayak!)

    April 19, 2024

    Looking to plan a sea kayaking trip to British Columbia’s beautiful Toba Inlet? This guide to paddling Toba Inlet has everything you need to know!

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    How to Kayak ASTOUNDING Desolation Sound

    September 11, 2022

    Kayaking Desolation Sound is one of the most beautiful kayaking destinations in British Columbia! For how to kayak Desolation Sound, what to pack, keep reading!

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Lake Superior summer loading✨🌅🏕️ where a Lake Superior summer loading✨🌅🏕️ where are you headed this summer?

1- A lake up the Gunflint Trail
2- Stockton Island
3- the Porkies
4- Lovers Leap Arch
5- the North Shore
6- prep day
7- Palisade Head
8- my favorite island
9- the trail 
10- Devils Island (actually isn’t my favorite!!)
11- Michigan moment 
12- camped out
13- a small sea cave

📍traditional and cultural homelands of the Anishinaabe Nation
How do you get back into running?🤷🏼‍♀️ How do you get back into running?🤷🏼‍♀️ one step at a time I guess 

#running #essay #outdoors
Unconventional ways I’ve saved money🤷🏼‍♀️

Definetly these wouldn’t work for everyone, but this is how I got a start working as a freelance writer/photographer and outdoor influencer. Everyone’s path in creative fields always looks super different, but I think sometimes it can be helpful to hear what people did to get there. 

For me I think the biggest thing was when I realized I wanted to work as a writer, I just started writing and kept writing, and kept putting myself out there. 

Ultimately the best thing you can do is just start, and work with what you have in front of you.
Last one is a plot twist 😉🛶🥾🏕️ #kay Last one is a plot twist 😉🛶🥾🏕️

#kayak #adventure #greatlakes 

📍Traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe Nation
Arches National Park in 2 hrs, because sometimes t Arches National Park in 2 hrs, because sometimes that’s all you need✨🏜️🥾

Arches is crowded, but my favorite part of crowded places is the tiny tourists :) can you spot the hiker in the third photo?!

📍 Traditional and cultural homelands of the Ute, Paiute, Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Sioux peoples
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