Algonquin Park Blog

It’s wet outside, but retreat attendees don’t seem to notice

With attendees from France, Australia, South Africa, and Buffalo, NY, this weekend retreat had a decidedly international flavour!
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Wilderness Survival Training Course Announced

Chris Mortimer & Alexis Burnett, two of our guides for adventure retreats this summer are also our Wilderness Survival Guides for this NEW Wilderness Survival Course. Both have practiced wilderness survival for many years with renowned tracker Tom Brown & studied the Kamana Naturalist program with Jon Young.
Download the pdf and join us August 9-12, [...]

2007 Retreats & Adventure Retreats Packages at Ontario’s Algonquin Park

Here are the 2007 Northern Edge Algonquin Retreat and Adventure Retreat Packages.We’re quite excited about some of the new retreats we’ve added to our line up this year, as well as our new Adventure Retreats (canoe trips in Ontario’s Algonquin Park and sea kayak adventures on Georgian Bay).

Adventure Retreat Package (11 pages)
Retreat Package (10 pages)

Martha [...]

The Tom Thomson Experience: Aug 9-12, 2007

The email newsletter from Robert Glen Twice sums up the essence of an art retreat amid Ontario’s nature. In fact what he describes below is his own Tom Thomson outdoor art experience.
“I’m not pretentious or even that proud of the stuff I do in the bush. But there’s something mind-bending about the outdoor act [...]

Martha hosts retreat this weekend

It’s been a busy may for Martha who has been hosting retreats at our home on the Edge of Algonquin Park. This weekend, it’s a basic shamanism retreat. Alix is getting ready for staff training. Kate is learning the ins and outs of office procedures from Wendy. Natalie and Vicki were [...]

Together amidst Algonquin’s Autumn Leaves: A Fall Romantic Retreat for Couples

Greg and Vicki invite you to join us at the Edge of Algonquin Park for this slow living romantic retreat for couples on Sept 27-30, 2007.
We invite you to join us at the peak of the fall colours as we hike the Forgotten Trails, paddle the headwaters of Algonquin Park and create simple meals together [...]

Paula Jackson invites you to a Summer Women’s Retreat at the Edge

Summer: Season of Blossoming Open, a Women’s RetreatJuly 12-15th, 2007Nature, in all its summer abundance, invites us to come into our own fullness…to open to Life! to Love! to Laughter!The natural world in all its summer glory has much to teach us about opening to our own strengths, our passions, our beauty, our longings and [...]

Spring Springing forth at Algonquin Park

The leaves are budding and the tulips bursting forth at our lakefront home on Kawawaymog Lake (Algonquin Park access #1). The beautiful spring green of the birch trees, the symphony of spring peepers say it’s nearly summer. Fiddleheads (early ferns) popping forth and spring beauties, red trillium, and trout lilies staking out their claim [...]

Green your Lifestyle - tools to help you reduce your impact on Climate Change

At the Edge, our lifestyle and programs focus on helping people rediscover themselves, empower one another and heal the earth. Here are two ways you can green your lifestyle using friendly, easy to use web tools so you can help heal the earth at home.
Zero Footprint, helps people understand the impact of their lifestyle [...]

Weekend Trip to North Tea

Last weekend I paddled into North Tea Lake in Algonquin Park for a few days and spent some time exploring this beautiful lake. I wanted to get in there and ’scout’ out the location for the Morning Tea with Moose trips (3 min. video mov) that I will be facilitating this summer. The weather was [...]