Algonquin Park Blog

I’ve posted a few videos so that you can get to know our Algonquin Park canoe trip guides.
Meet an Algonquin Park Canoe Guide.
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In the next week we welcome a youth groups from Ireland - the Irish Boys Brigade, and from Mexico for Algonquin Park experiences.
There is still availability for our first Quest for Balance sea kayaking and yoga retreat over the long weekend and limited space is also available on a couple of canoe trips [...]

“A bump on the head is causing you to slide down the AVPU scale indicating the possibility of rising intercranial pressure.” Robb Evis is instructing 6 of 18 adventure service providers on how to exhibit the signs and symptoms of a potentially dangerous wilderness wilderness first aid scenario in Ontario, Canada. Role playing [...]

This weekend we’re hosting about 18 folks for an Advanced Wilderness First Aid Course from Wilderness Medical Associates.  I hope to post some images of this early summer program shortly.Wilderness First Aid is an important and practical set of skills that enable those who lead outdoor experiences to respond in the absence of immediately available [...]

We’ve put some loops on our Web sites…. Subscribe to the loop of your choice and get up to the minute updates on last minute specials, new event listings and more….
Let us know if you like these new animated slide shows.
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This past week has been a full week here at the Edge. As part of our Staff training week, one of our first guides “Chris Mortimer” introduced us to some nature awareness activities. Each day in the morning and evening we were invited to go to our “Sit Spot” with a journal in [...]

This week, Edge full time staff, returning seasonal staff and new team members gathered at the Edge to get to know one another and refresh their skills so that we can offer the best year of Northern Edge Algonquin experiences ever.We’re excited to have brought together such an outstanding team. We’ll introduce you to [...]

Turtles are crawling forth and laying their pingpong ball-like eggs in the gravel at the side of roads that run along the edges of creeks and bogs. This morning I saw three; two over their nests dropping dozens of eggs into a 40 cm deep holes and this one bravely scrambling across the road [...]

Sun is shining and the dragonflies abound!Hatch out of dragonflies is truly a hatchback experience.Watching the creepy crawly emerge from the lake after 7 years as a mud dweller, the dragonfly latches onto a vertical object, like a tree and then emerges from the back it’s shell. The wings unfold and the sun and [...]

A flock of at least 60 Canada geese sit in the northeast corner of our lake honking away….Yellow Eastern Swallowtail butterflies flit about . . . a few dragon flies have emerged, I’m sure there will be many more this weekMore than a few moose amble along the road in the evening . . [...]