a look at life in the backcountry on pathfinder canoe trips
              • trips start with sign ups and postings back at camp
              • boys may request trip mates, guides, even specific routes they want to try
              • trips are still typed up and posted at the central bulletin board as they have been for 94 years
              • final packing on departure morning
              • bringing his pack down to the dock to load up for departure
              • off they go, into Algonquin Park
              • the country: 3,000 sq. mi. of forest, laceworked by waterways
              • lakes, ponds, rivers of every kind
              • in places it's wide open
              • in others, the forest grows tight overhead