Rest hour is from 1:30 - 3:00 each day. Catching rest hour breezes through the screens of Lodge III. This is quiet time in the heat of the day. Reading, chatting with counselors, planning canoe trips.
A common loon and baby watch the trips prepare for departure.
The Pathfinder canoe dock, with wood, Royalex canoes and the kayak fleet.
Boys with trip packs assemble on the Canoe Dock.
Trip canoes load up and pull away from the Canoe Dock. The call “TRIPPERS!” rings across the island.
Out on the trail. After a portage, back in the boats, load packs carefully and push off to get out in the lake for a cool drink.
On the trail. Boys portage their gear between lakes on a Pathfinder canoe trip.
The staff men carry the canoes.
Portage landing at a waterfall somewhere in back country Ontario.
Trippers along the trail. There's such tremendous pride and esprit de corps when a crew has achieved their destination after two or three weeks on the trail.