Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan here as always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. Feels like, uh, feels like a while since we've done this.

That's true. You have been in the Algonquin wilderness. I mean, I know that you pretty much

annually like to take a big ambitious canoe trip in Algonquin Park in Ontario. You did it much

later than normal this year. And I think sub-zero temperatures. What was that experience

like?

Well, yeah, I mean, it is, you know, it's becoming an annual thing. This is only the second

time I've done it, but I am kind of planning to do it each year, at least once.

I did go to Kalarney Provincial Park actually rather than Algonquin this time because that

was the only place where there was an outfitters that would rent a canoe. None of the Algonquin this time because that was the only place where there was an

outfitters that would rent a canoe. None of the Algonquin ones seemed to be open. But I'd never

been to Killarney before, but two and a half hours, something like that, west, southwest and North

Bay. So if people know Ontario at all, southwest of Sudbury. It's very different. You know, the landscape,

there's lots of cliffs, more hiking trails than at least the part of Algonquin Park I'm familiar

with. It is true. It's absolutely insane to go in to a provincial park on a canoe trip at this time

of year, which is probably why throughout the course of this entire trip, we did not

see a single other canoe or tent anywhere in the park. We had, it seemed, like, the entirety

of Killarney Provincial Park, which is a vast space all to ourselves. We did see like three people

on one of the hiking trails where we decided on the first full day there to leave our campsite and do some hiking up to a vantage point called the crack where there was a beautiful view and you can walk on that trail.

You can walk there from the beginning of the park from the entrance to the park. So we saw like three people there.

Besides that, not a single other soul for days.

It was 15 degrees on the day we went in, which was very lucky.

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