Lake Journal: Back and Beyond
Summer 2011: Back and Beyond. A wilderness story.
Five friends and I completed a 54-day canoe expedition on Nunavut’s Back River in the summer of 2005. I was ready to be tested, but I never imagined the combination of grief, beauty and disaster that would push me to the limit and leave me with a new understanding of the wild.
I completed this essay about the journey at the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism Program during the summer of 2010. It’s called Back and Beyond and was published in Lake Journal.
