Funding Adventure: February Recipients

Funding Adventure: February Recipients

Numbers.

Occasionally, they happen to invade one’s sightlines, making you either: A. confused B. snoozed or C. stoked. And when our peeps from the Sustainability and Community team sent the rundown for our latest round of Expedition Support recipients, you can bet your lucky penny the letter circled was good old option C.

Check out these digits, friends:

1800 kilometers of flow towards the Arctic Ocean

6610 feet of untapped granite

1400 kilometers for another Frank Wolf production

5 as in Class 5

110 + kilometers of steep skiing and traversing

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Labrador-Quebec Traverse

• Activity: Canoeing
• Expedition members: Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan
• The plan: Paddle 1400km from the Inuit Village of Nain, Labrador to the Inuit Village of Kuujjuarapik, Quebec

Mackenzie River

• Activity: Canoeing
• Expedition members: Clark Family – Dan, Alice, Koby and Ava Fei (soon to be 5 and 3 years old respectively)
• The plan: Paddle 1800km down the Mackenzie River from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean (if Dan gets the ok from work to leave early, they’ll push off in Jasper, extending the expedition by about 1500km)

Favourite Gear MEC Mantis Tarp:

“Keeps out rain or bugs or both.”

Mount Asgard, Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut

• Activity: Alpine Climbing
• Expedition members: Joshua Lavigne and Jon Walsh
• The plan: Climb an entirely free route up the north west face of the South Tower of Mt. Asgard (6610ft/2015m)

 Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut

• Activity: Ski mountaineering and touring
• Expedition members: Conor Hurley, Claire Sieber, and Jon Walsh
• The plan: Over 110km of traversing, exploring, steep skiing and documenting the natural beauty of Auyuittuq National Park and also documenting the cultural impact of the National Park and its visitors on the Inuit Community of Pangnirtung

Kayak Accessed Ski Expedition in the Waddington Range, BC

• Activity: Whitewater kayaking and ski mountaineering
• Expedition members: Maxi Kniewasser, Ric Moxon, and Chris Tretwold
• The plan: Using whitewater kayaks, the group will access the remote Waddington Range by paddling the Class 5 Homathko River. They will then climb and ski the northeast peak of Mt. Waddington

Team Agguanittuq (Inuktitut word meaning to go face to the wind)

• Activity: Kayaking
• Expedition members: Eric Binion, Bob Saunders, Chris Shank, Susan Saunders, and Sandy Briggs
• The plan: The group will complete the final leg of a multi-year expedition, paddling from Taloyoak to Repulse Bay, Nunavut

May 1, 2012 marks the application cutoff for our next round of Expedition Support picks, so get out your maps and calculators and start crunching some numbers of your own.

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